Hands of Love! By Kelly K. Brown

Who are you really? What is your work, your daily job? What do you do with you mind (thoughts) on a daily basis? How much of who you are, what you do and what you think is about YOU… or IS any of IT? Or is it about what people said you were, said you were capable of, said you could/should do, or say you ‘should’ think.

Are you, YOU… or are you thinking and behaving from someone ELSE’s programmed beliefs for you… ABOUT you?

Think about this carefully! What are you capable of, really? What can YOU really do in times like these? Do you worry? Can you create miracles--for yourself, for others?

Do you TRUST YOU? Do you trust YOUR MIND power? Do you trust YOUR THOUGHTS? Do you trust YOUR internal guidance---your own gut instincts?

Do you find that you are just doing what everyone else is doing? Are you thinking what everyone else is thinking? “Times are hard… better save my money, better think with scarcity, better get ready for the depression, better ‘hunker’ down for the imminent bad times, the new bad economy.”?

What do YOU WANT to think about in times like these? What thoughts make you feel good? What thoughts bring you joy? Are there any good and joyful thoughts in times like these?

What if you and your hands are capable of miracles?

What if you can do far above and exceeding what anyone else has ever done… EVER, but YOU don’t believe it for you? What happens to our world then?

What if you have an idea that solves many issues of the day for this economy, for an illness, for the environment? WHAT IF...?

By now you might be thinking… what’s this blog all about? Why is Kelly asking me SO MANY QUESTIONS? (it is a bit annoying isn’t it?)

What if I’m following my own path in life, using my own hands to OPEN YOUR MIND to the ENDLESS possibilities of the universe for YOU?

What if my gift in life is to help you become aware of the thoughts that aren’t serving you and highlight the path toward thoughts that will serve you?

WHAT IF… you’ve been thinking thoughts that don’t serve you? Thoughts like… “My ideas don’t count or matter really… they’re probably inconsequential, people won’t agree with me (like that should matter, eh?) I’ve never done anything super or great before…. I better just continue thinking like everyone else, work hard, worry all day about the economy, pay my bills and keep my nose to the grind… it’s what everyone does, it’s THE WAY… it’s the accepted WAY to live.”

WHAT if your HEART is every single day crying out for another existence? What if every night when you fall asleep you have that feeling once again that you are not living the life YOU were meant to live… What if you get up every day and spend 12-14 hours a day doing, thinking, driving to and from a job or something you don’t have passion for just so you can pay your bills?

Do you THINK that the other few waking hours left in your day will make up for it---will counteract all those negative feelings? Do you think 5 hours of happiness or doing things that are all designed to make you feel better will help when you spend 14 other hours a day unhappy? Do you think this ‘the way everyone else lives’ life will be worth it to you when you look back in whatever your old age will be for you?

I’ve asked myself all these questions… I’ve lived a majority of my life doing what everyone else was doing for all the wrong reasons, peer pressure, parents point of view, shoulds, fear, doubt, self disbelief, (you fill in the blank with why you do what you do that you don’t love and why it is you don’t get off the treadmill and start doing what you DO love) One of mine was that only men count… only men can… which meant as a woman, I couldn’t! Know what? Gender doesn’t matter, where you’re born doesn’t matter, what others think doesn’t matter…

LOVE matters! Loving yourself enough to choose your own passion, to believe in yourself no matter what, to believe that YOU are capable of a destiny of your very own choosing, your own passion, your own desires, your lifestyle, your magical amount of money, your experience of loving yourself and others. There is No right! No wrong! Just choices you can make when you love yourself enough and believe in yourself enough to CHOOSE what makes YOU happy.

I leave you with one of my favorite songs that helps me stay focused and centered, following my own path for me… highlighted words are my highlights for emphasis. Read the lyrics to yourself for you, about you… and then think about YOUR HANDS, YOUR DREAMS, YOUR DESTINY! What does living the life that could/would make you joyful and happy every single day look like? What is the purpose for your hands?

Hands by Jewel

If I could tell the world just one thing

It would be, we're all okay

And not to worry

'Cause worry is wasteful and useless

In times like these

I won't be made useless

Won't be idle with despair

I will gather myself around my faith

For light does the darkness most fear

My hands are small I know

But they're not yours, they are my own

But they're not yours, they are my own

and I am never broken

Poverty stole your golden shoes

But it didn't steal your laughter

And heartache came to visit me

But I knew it wasn't ever after

We'll fight, not out of spite

For someone must stand up for what's right'

Cause where there's a man who has no voice

There ours shall go singing

My hands are small I know

But they're not yours, they are my own

But they're not yours, they are my own

and I am never broken

In the end only kindness matters

In the end only kindness matters

I will get down on my knees, and I will pray

I will get down on my knees, and I will pray

I will get down on my knees, and I will pray

My hands are small I know

But they're not yours, they are my own

But they're not yours, they are my own

and I am never broken

My hands are small I know

But they're not yours, they are my own

But they're not yours, they are my own

and I am never broken

We are never broken

We are God's eyes

God's hands

God's heart

We are God's eyes

God's hands

God's heart

We are God's eyes

God's hands

God's eyes

We are God's hands

Sharing endless love, joy and peace through kindness is the path I create everyday for me. What path will you choose for YOU?

Kelly

The Right Place at the Right Time! By Kelly K. Brown

A young man working at Pike’s Fish Market in Seattle Washington… he had such an incredible aura about him, I had a friend take our picture…I was absolutely in the Right Place at the Right Time when I saw him that day--he touched my heart!

Friday night I went to see a movie and just ‘happened’ to sit by someone I know completely by accident. If you know me well, you are already smiling as you know I don’t believe in ‘random thoughts, accidents, or random occurrences’ of any kind.

In this case, it took me completely by surprise and as I sat with my daughter and son-in-law (who I went to the movies with) and also sat right next to the person I did not expect to see there, I began to wonder…

“Hmmmmm… this is an odd occurrence”, and it was on my mind, “I wonder what this is about?", remembering in the moment, everything in life has meaning and purpose, how there are no ‘coincidences’ and now I find myself seated by this person for some unknown absolute universal reason… hmmmmmmm.

The movie previews began to play and at long last the feature movie started, and it wasn’t long at all before I KNEW exactly why I was there in that moment next to this exact person. As the movie began to unfold, over and over and over again it hit on a situational tragedy that my friend had just lived though in the past year.

Over and over the movie would say it in words AND in print all as part of the movie’s storyline, and I felt so much compassion for my friend. The movie wasn’t about the tragedy in particular, so none of us could have known about this before we arrived---I’m sure if my friend had known, they might not have gone to this movie---it was that in your face.

Now I can’t know for certain what my friend was feeling, and yet I was completely filled with compassion for the life circumstance they’d just lived through… so I began to immediately send love. As I watched the movie, I began to radiate love, healing, support, and endless compassion to my friend (who had no idea about this whatsoever). In fact, I’ve discovered most people are unaware of the true power of their thoughts in relation to the vibrational affect on others when we send out unconditional love— and I’m certain most all of you have certainly felt and experienced it at one time or another.

The vibrational energy of love is so evident… you may find you want to be around people who live in that vibrational pattern as often as you can. And the act of sending love has an enormously good affect on others---it’s a healing, calming, soothing and compassionate energy all rolled up into one and it’s effects are immeasurable! (Who can really say how far love can go?)

There was no doubt in my mind why I was sitting in this particular seat next to this friend. I was in the Right Place at the Right Time to send love, support and healing thoughts and energy for their benefit.

The very the next day, our neighborhood had a garage sale day and I went around to visit with all my neighbors more than to shop really… and once again I found myself over and over in the Right Place at the Right Time.

One neighbor was selling a lot of baby clothes and as it happens I know of a young woman who will be having a baby very soon and has little or no financial means to purchase the basic baby necessities---so I was able to pick up a bag full of newborn clothes at almost no cost to me… for HER benefit. Yayyyyyyy!

I met another neighbor who, in short conversation, shared she was very new to the law of attraction which I just happen to be quite knowledgable on and write about all the time (a mere coincidence?). I was able to give her my phone number and this blog site so she can contact me with questions or get additional information as she grows on her own Journey of Attraction.

Another garage-saler, not even from our neighborhood… something clicked in our conversation for her and she said she’d like to read some uplifting thoughts, etc.

The point I’m making is this: the universe always lines up the right people at the right time at the right moment who need a kind word from you, or maybe they have a kind word or book recommend or message for you.

The universe never, ever misses… EVER. Most people just aren’t aware and so when what they need is right in front of them, they aren’t being ‘present in the moment’, so they miss it. They are completely unaware that they are in the Right Place at the Right Time to either provide what another needs or receive exactly the item (thought or idea) they need.

Yesterday, I had yet another experience with this. As it happens, about a week ago I was making my bed and ‘noticed’ something under the bed… no other thought, just… ‘Oh, I see that under my bed’. Funny then, when I got up today and I’m needing something specific, my mind goes to the item under my bed---which in truth should NOT work for what I need at all---in any way at all. But the thought occurred, so I pulled it out… and voila, it was EXACTLY what I needed and it worked almost perfectly---and with a bit of adjustment it will be absolute perfection for me—even though it really shouldn’t work at all!

Or how about today? A doctor’s office that was on my mind all last week---truly on my mind to call them and I was just busy and didn’t get around to it… I called them today only to find out THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT ME LAST WEEK IN GREAT DETAIL! They told me today they knew I’d be calling soon because they thought of me rather out-of-the-blue… or was it out-of-the-blue? What if they were thinking of me because I was radiating out positive thoughts about my needing to see them soon? (I LOVE everyone at this particular office and always have such a great time there---so there is a lot of love and positive energy in my mind whenever I think of them!)

Are you beginning to understand how everything you ever want or need is already lining up at the Right Place, Right Time when you ask for what you want and believe it is on the way? What you look for and believe, you will clearly SEE in evidence and HEAR in hints that are placed all around for YOUR benefit---and often before you even know you need them. That’s how life is supposed to work for everyone… that’s how life can work FOR you!

Today, I challenge you to try to stay present in the moment as much as possible. Start believing in your mind and heart that there are no coincidences… the reason for the red light when you are in a hurry is important. That person who catches your attention in a random moment… is a message, a sign or a person you are to interact with on some level---or they are there to remind you of someone else you need to interact with.

We are always in the Right Place at the Right Time! We just have to stay ‘present in the moment’ to understand and then ask what the significance actually is and then let it come to us, let it literally ‘happen for us’.

One of my favorite items to use as a programming tool is the Easy Button from Staples… it is a constant reminder that life is/was meant to be EASY—in every situation, in every circumstance, every time… ALWAYS. "That Was Easy!"

When you can get really clear about that and believe it for yourself, life becomes so much easier for you. Stress goes away, worry doesn’t exist because you know EVERYTHING (the what or who you need) will show up right on cue to give you whatever you are asking for OR the joy will be yours as you show up to help another on their journey.

To your ever growing and evolving magical life!

Kelly

P.S. If you are reading this particular blog, ummmmmmmm… You are in the Right Place at the Right Time and this is absolutely meant for YOU!

YOU ARE LOVED! By Kelly K. Brown

"The future belongs to those who believe in the REALITY of their dreams." --Kelly K. Brown

Today I experienced another one of my gratitude moments in life… watching how the universe steps up to help me, to guide me, to show me the way…

It never, ever fails and I’m always so touched; deeply to the core, I cry and laugh and feel joy and happiness and gratitude and love and excitement and inner peace ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

It is difficult to describe in words.

It feels as if my heart will actually BURST with the love and joy it contains… and I know nothing else like it. I’ve never known anything else like it.

Sometimes I get busy with other things and don’t ‘allow the feelings’ to flow through me… and then on days like today… I wonder why I would ever do anything else but make time for this love…

This Deep and Abiding, Eternal Inner Self Love!

A lot of people wonder what I do, how I live, how I can be so happy and joyful… and there are many, many answers… and all of them lead back to love and gratitude expressed through my internal appreciation in every moment for every thing and everyone that is around me.

Always feeling and experiencing the feelings ‘that I am so lucky’. Loving life unconditionally.

I’m on a path I didn’t create consciously… I think a part of me somewhere did create it and it is so perfect for me… so blessed, so harmonious and healing. So much healing transpires within me when I experience gratitude, joy and appreciation. The gratitude feelings actually heal old wounds, current worries, it eliminates any possibility of stress filled thought…ALL of these things disappear in the face of heartfelt gratitude and appreciation.

Trust is a key component… I finally lived through enough life experiences where I couldn’t possibly control or possibly create a literal solution for myself… When I had no choice but to trust in the universe and ‘all that is’, and then experience how it always, always, always works things out in ways I could never, ever foresee---for my highest well-being.

The way the universe creates for me is always good, miraculous, and truly unbelievable when looked at through any type of ‘conventional thought’ or wisdom.

Life has taught me the best thing to “be” is:

UNCONVENTIONAL in every aspect of life! No matter what happens…

TRUSTING! No matter how long it takes…

BELIEVING! No matter how steep the road, how long the path or how it looks or what ‘seems to be real’…

And then…

LIVING LIFE! Through faith and trust in the absolute Unconditional LOVE of the universe to bring me every single thing I must have to experience endless joy, happiness, peace and love.

When I moved into my new house a year ago, I filled it with plaques and rocks and pictures with the very words of the life I wished to experience.

I was CREATING my life to be filled with: Love, Peace, Joy, Harmony, Gratitude, Happiness, Prosperity, Fortune, Appreciation, and Kindness.

And every single day I experience some form of all of these from the moment I open my eyes to the last thing I remember when I fall to sleep.

Boundless, endless, limitless joy-filled LOVE---centered around gratitude and appreciation for all that life is and can be…

Today, I am literally compelled to share a glimpse of what a gratitude ‘euphoric’ day is like for me and how I experience it. I believe this is a life experience we were all meant to live… and my heart aches for YOU to have it---for YOU to experience it in your own way that is most joyous for YOU.

Sending love, radiating love, sharing love, helping others find the way to their own fountain of inner joy and self love… it is why I exist! It is all I care about… all I dream about… all I seem to want in life.

My heart is bursting with love for YOU! Deep inside, know and feel that out there somewhere (right here) there is a simple girl with a very simple name, Kelly Brown, who is sending YOU love with all the force of the Universe behind it.

Yes, this message is meant for YOU!

YOU ARE LOVED!

Kelly

All You Need Is Love! by Kelly K. Brown

Me sending out LOVE... or is that cake icing on my fingers? LOL

One of the things my current journey compels me endlessly to do is to simply LOVE people…

Unconditional Love! No story, no expectation, no ‘shoulds’, no judgment, just allowing each person absolute freedom to be who they are, as they are. Taking the time to look at each person as the beautiful being they are… then radiating love all around them where they are, as they are, as they are behaving in the moment… just love! What they do, don’t do, act like, or don’t act like has no bearing on my unconditional love… that’s why it’s called ‘UNconditional Love!

This is not a religious directive or a ‘should’ that I’m making myself do… it is what I am literally compelled from the inside of my being to do. (I don’t think, well, I ‘should’ love them… because that is what I’m supposed to do… that’s not it at all! I just love people because they are wonderful beings who all want, need and would like to reflect the love they allow themselves to experience on the inside).

At this point, some people will throw up all the examples of people they simply CANNOT love, because that person did this or that or behaved in this way or that way; but the truth is… behavior is NOT the person. Their actions are NOT ‘them’ the person… all of their behavior is simply the reflection of their thoughts, perspective and programming playing out as actions and behaviors that we then might deem (ummmm… judge) as good or bad---based on OUR perspectives.

The gift of loving people unconditionally provides the unending JOY that flows through the giver because giving unconditional love allows FREEDOM to the person you give it to… which then allows FREEDOM in all areas of life for YOU.

There is also something magical that happens when we radiate love to others (whether they are near or far makes no difference), something actually does occur... Love is that powerful, unstoppable, and unending!

Today I send unconditional LOVE to everyone I’ve had the good fortune to meet.

If you are reading this, I am already sending unconditional love to YOU! Just as you are, where you are, expecting nothing from you… just sharing the joy of my unconditional love for you.

I love the Beatles 'All You Need is Love' song which came to me unexpectedly when I was pondering about love!

Enjoy!


Love, Love, Love. Love, Love, Love. Love, Love, Love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.

Nothing you can say but you can learn howto play the game.

It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made.

No one you can save that can't be saved.

Nothing you can do but you can learn howto be you in time.

It's easy.

All you need is love.

All you need is love.

All you need is love, love.

Love is all you need.

All you need is love.

All you need is love.

All you need is love, love.

Love is all you need.

Nothing you can know that isn't known.

Nothing you can see that isn't shown.

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

It's easy.

All you need is love.

All you need is love.

All you need is love, love.

Love is all you need.

All you need is love. (All together, now!)

All you need is love. (Everybody!)

All you need is love, love.

Love is all you need (love is all you need).

Yee-hai!

Oh yeah!

She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.

She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.

Yeah… I do LOVE YOU... "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!"

Always Sending Love!

Kelly

The Path To Freedom! By Kelly K. Brown

Me at the Seattle Space Needle on My Own Path to Freedom!


This week started with me living what could have been seen, felt and experienced by me as a ‘painful’ experience. And yet, because I CHOSE to stay ‘present in the very moment’ of the circumstance, I handled the experience in the most effective way possible---by only seeing everyone involved through the eyes of love---a way of living I’ve been practicing as a part of my ‘in the moment’ existence for over a year!

You can imagine how interesting it then was to me, when this exact same topic came up again and again throughout my week.

People, loved ones, friends… many were experiencing feelings, thoughts and the emotion of ‘pain’ about current life events… and in chatting sometimes they experienced it about past events. Past or present, all pain can be avoided by remembering and implementing the practice of one simple action.

Choosing to stay ‘present in the moment’. (Staying ‘present in the moment’ always brings FREEDOM when we choose it!)

Having sufferered the pain of what I call ‘going around the mountain’ again and again over a particular situation or what another person, does, says, did or didn’t do, should have done or I expected them to do---Always, always equals PAIN FOR ME (AND YOU!)

This topic can ‘appear’ complex, so let me explain more carefully.

When we are NOT choosing to live ‘in the moment’, and when things then don’t go OUR way, “You know, the way we think things should go”, or when people don’t behave the way WE think is right or they SHOULD… we experience PAIN!

It is in THAT moment when our thoughts begin to tell us made up stories with the attached history of old experiences, old programming and old emotions… we LOSE our freedom and begin creating personal PAIN. Yes, WE create our own pain---the other person has nothing to do with it whatsoever. (You may want to re-read that last line, as for some this concept could be difficult to understand at first.)

We tell ourselves (and truly want to believe) that all our angst and upset is about another, their actions, or a certain circumstance, but the TRUTH is that it is OUR CHOICE of thoughts in this moment, OUR disappointment about an unmet expectation and our anger that things SHOULDN’T be this way that brings us into immediate pain.

It is an interesting experience to feel how in ONE moment we can change our thoughts AND then instantly and literally FEEL better. We can experience unbelievable freedom when we wisely monitor and choose our thoughts and begin focusing on what we now WANT, instead of what we didn’t like about what just happened or occurred!

When living ‘present in the moment’ I'm able to tell myself NO STORY whatsoever about what is happening.

To put it in plain terms, I DEPERSONALIZE every happening to an understanding of the situation or circumstance as being just a thing ‘that is!’.

No one is wrong
No one is right
No one is at fault… No Story! A happening just occurred---That’s it!

This is TRUTH: Regardless of what the other is thinking, not thinking or how they feel, what their inner perspective is or was, what story they are telling in their mind… it is theirs! It is NOT about us; in fact, we can never really know what another person is thinking anyway (even though we often believe and state that we do).

By living in a state of allowing through conscious awareness, we can surrender to the situation at hand. (Read: I can choose to accept the situation just as it is.)

The gift of awareness is that in the moment we are aware, we can CHOOSE not to tell ourselves a story of inner thoughts from OLD, OUTDATED life experiences. In this moment, what is happening is what is happening NOW and has nothing to do with anything anyone ever said or ever did in the past. (That would be adding in a STORY).

And this is where a common struggle comes in… when we are not living in conscious awareness, when someone doesn’t behave as we think they SHOULD, our thoughts start telling us OLD stories as if they were the ‘present moment TRUTH. Thoughts like:

I can’t believe they did THAT to me! Why didn’t I see this coming?
I should have known better than to trust them, they always…
This is what I get for being such a nice gal/guy.
They did that on purpose just to hurt me---just like everyone else does...
I knew this would happen, this is what ALWAYS happens to me
They make me so angry, they should have... (or shouldn't have...)

Blah, Blah, Blah…

Law of Attraction is extraordinarily fair! It attracts more of what you focus on, so in this example by focusing and thinking ALL those negative thoughts… you get MORE negative thoughts… and you wake up 5 hours later to realize you’ve been obsessing about this for FIVE STRAIGHT HOURS! Wasting your very life with FIVE hours of unproductive, pain-inducing, negative thinking… and worse, these type of thoughts never serve you or the greater good (nothing productive can come from these type of thoughts), they just bring pain in the form of hurt feelings, anger, frustration, irritation and more. (And when not careful… these thoughts can become rather addictive… think like a jilted lover for a sec---one can truly become obsessed in the mire of negative thinking.)

This is where a true understanding of life can create some fun however. If you can stay present in the moment, and CHOOSE NOT to tell any stories in your thoughts, you will find you have chosen to become the OBSERVER of your thoughts.

In that moment, you have just realized the very truth of life that most people never, ever get! YOU are the ‘thinker of your thoughts’, you are NOT your thoughts! That means YOU get to control what you think---you do have a choice! So, you might choose to entertain better feeling thoughts like:

What is IS what is.
This is not exactly what I was expecting.
I have no idea why they behaved this way or why this happened.
I will tell myself no ‘old, habitual, programmed thoughts’ on this topic.
I choose to believe this is about where they are in their life, and not about me.
Maybe they were scared, or worried, or under stress: who knows?
This isn’t about me—people act the way they do for their very OWN reasons.
It could be anything really. I can’t know what they were thinking.
I’ll probably never know so I won’t waste my present moment time:

1) worrying about what the reason was or wasn’t
2) being upset or anguishing through all the negative possibilities, or
3) finding ways to make me right and them wrong so I can feel better in this situation
4) figuring out ways and endless points of view to place blame on them.

Instead, I can choose to:

Live this experience exactly as it is with NO expectation of a different, better or worse outcome, or a ‘how it should have been’ because that time is NOW gone and in the past and it cannot be re-lived, so why would I try to re-live it over and over and over again in the thoughts of my mind? Now is all we’ve got, and we can CHOOSE our thoughts and focus in this NOW moment… and the next, and the next, etc.

We can then start thinking thoughts like:

1) I will choose to love myself and this other person exactly as we are with no judgment toward either of us in this situation. I can choose be the ‘observer’ of my thoughts, and just see what can be learned from this current situation.

2) I will accept that ‘what is IS what is', and then immediately make the choice to now focus ONLY on what I want to have, be, create or experience in my life.

3) I will focus and envision all my future interactions with this other person going exactly the way I’d like with love and joy for all involved.

What you focus on expands and you WILL begin to attract and then experience brand new and much better outcomes as soon as you fill your mind with brand new thoughts, dreams, ideas and feelings of what you now want.

That’s how you do it… Every single time, in every single circumstance, in every life experience!

1) Get and/or stay present in the moment.
2) See what is, and accept that what is IS what is.
3) Note the contrast WITHOUT adding any STORY---no story, no emotion, no personalizing, no old programming thoughts.
4) Begin immediately to ask for and focus on what you NOW want to see in this situation or situations like it.
5) Continue! Focus on those good ideas until you think of something else you want, and then focus on that!

Sounds difficult… and I assure you practice will make it easier and easier and easier--- the more you stay present in the moment and are aware of your thoughts, the easier it gets! And best of all, the REWARD for all your practice is the Path of Freedom: PEACE, JOY, HAPPINESS and EXTRAORDINARY LOVE FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS.

Choose YOUR Path of Freedom today. Start simply by just becoming aware of your thoughts. Listen to what your thoughts are! As time goes on, become the Observer! Start to notice your positive and negative thoughts and begin to choose only the positive thoughts you now want to think and focus on. From there, it’s nothing more than practice… and we are always practicing something aren’t we?

To YOUR Path of Freedom!

Kelly

A NEW and Timely Perspective About Money! by Kelly K. Brown

Yes, I do believe Money CAN and DOES Grow On Trees!

I spent quite a bit of time pondering about money the other day. A dear friend from a mastermind group gave me a cd about money and in listening to it, many thoughts about money started going though my mind.

One of the FIRST things I thought about was a memory of how much I absolutely, and without reservation LOVED money as a child. I remember holding it (coins back then) and liking how it sounded when I’d take them out of my jar and ‘clink, clink, clink’ drop them back in! I loved to count it, I loved to have it, and I loved to see it… I clearly remember having a wonderful relationship with money---it felt good to me---I felt good having it!

And then I remembered something else… I remembered how my family started making fun of me for loving money! They would make side (snide?) comments about me liking my money so much, and then came all those ill-informed ideas that money is the root of all evil conversations (yes they misquoted that phrase)… money isn’t everything, money doesn’t grow on trees---and I clearly remember FEELING bad because I loved my money! I remember thinking I had to PRETEND I didn’t love money, that to be accepted in my family, I had to HIDE that I loved my money! In essence they made fun of me for loving money!

Hmmmmmm… Can you relate to this on any level? How did you as a child instinctively FEEL about money? How do you REALLY FEEL now about money today? What did your family say about money? Do you ever take the time to LOOK at your money or do you just spend it without even thinking about it at all?

Extremely well versed in the Law of Attraction, I clearly know how very important our FEELINGS are, as well as our words and thoughts about what we are creating and thereby attracting into our world---into our reality.

So, in light of these memories I forgot LONG AGO, I took the time and made the effort to go back to other 'money is bad' memories and start ‘cleaning up’ that ‘old programming’ from my past that no longer serves me and decided to create some NEW memories and thoughts about money that WILL serve me in attracting the vast abundance I intend to have!

I want to share with you that in doing this Money Exercise, I had the absolute BEST TIME EVER! What started as a clearing of old feelings, thoughts and patterns of belief about money became an opportunity for me to again think about and express my unending LOVE to the universe where I’m so very fortunate to live.

As I started looking at the money (starting with a few suggestions from the cd), I started thinking A LOT about money---but NOT in the way you might imagine!

I started thinking about how money blesses every hand that touches it!

It’s true! As I looked at my $1 bill, I started to imagine all the people’s lives this money had touched… what they may have spent it on, what they received in exchange for sending it back out into circulation, and the joy they may have felt in the spending of it---which ended with how joyous I was to now be in possession of this ONE WONDROUS DOLLAR that may have touched and blessed millions of people and possibly gone all over the world and back to rest with me!

I started to remember that money ALWAYS gives a gift to me (and YOU) when we spend it because we always get something wonderful when we exchange it for something else. And it doesn’t matter what we spend it on… we always get something wonderful in return!

In my life of rental properties, handymen, rents received, mortgages paid, groceries purchased and trash taken to the street, purchasing everything from gas to gum and paying taxes, I completely FORGOT about the incredible wonder of money when viewed in that context!

I can already hear some of the naysayers who are thinking about when they pay for a car repair, property taxes, a fine or a fee that they are not receiving a wonderful blessing in exchange for their money, but I beg to differ.

Do you realize (remember) even when you pay taxes, fees or fines what it is you ARE ‘getting’? You are getting firemen, policemen, a military, a government that provides many benefits and safety for not only us, but many benefits for our entire world?

Do you remember that every time you spend money you are blessing this business owner and that business owner who in turn feeds their family and spends their money on the goods and services of another business or person that is now blessed by the never ending FLOW OF MONEY? And it NEVER ends! The blessings never, ever end until we forget that this is the ultimate purpose of money…to bless ourselves AND others!

In China I saw many examples of people blessing their money through various forms of worship!

Can you see how it is also just as wonderful to SAVE your money; to put some away for a special occasion, a new car, a vacation, or for a rainy day? It’s YOUR money and there is no right or wrong in it! You can love your money any way you want and it is perfectly okay----unless you subscribe to other people’s outdated and completely misinformed ideas, rules and regulations about money!

This is the point where my journey took an incredible turn again toward LOVE!

As I was having all these wonderful old memories about my money, and was ‘in the moment’ creating wonderful, joyous new feelings about all the blessings I receive when I put my money into the flow of the universe, I had a brand new incredible thought!

Out-of-the blue, and directly from my inner guidance, I had a new thought about how I could now (in my newly acquired state of love for money) CHOOSE to bless every single dollar as it leaves me to be a ‘double blessing’ for the next person who receives it.

My heart was thumping and my pulse was racing as I visualized what an incredible gift it will be to mail out all my bills, my mortgages, my service bills and literally send a blessing that the very person who next receives those monies is blessed (by my money now in THEIR hands) going TWICE as far as it did for me!

Maybe they will by chance find a special ½ price sale the day they go to spend this blessed money, or maybe they will receive a discount or a coupon that makes their money go twice as far as it would normally go. Maybe the money will just be multiplied in their care!

You see, everything in life is LITERALLY about perspective and it is the same with money!

WHAT IS YOUR PERSPECTIVE about having money, giving money, receiving money, spending money, etc.? Your perspective about everything is controlled completely BY YOU and you can change your perspective at any time you CHOOSE to create and believe new thoughts. What anyone (or everyone) else says, said, believes or thinks makes absolutely no difference---YOU get to decide what YOU think about money for YOU!

And what you think about money makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE when you are wanting to attract more of it into YOUR life experience!

Today I challenge you to take a little time and really THINK about money… look at it, touch it, hold it! What are your thoughts about it? What would you LIKE to think about it? Do you love it? Would you like to love it? Do you think it is good or evil? Do you think you will never have enough of it or that you are abundantly blessed? Examine your thoughts, beliefs and perspectives and then purposely CHOOSE new and BETTER ideas that resonate with YOU for your best well-being.

Then, when you really ‘feel’ the wondrous joy that YOUR money truly is (regardless of how much you do or don’t have), join me in blessing all the money you have and all the money you spend to be a double blessing to those who will receive it from you—no matter who they are or where they live. Take a moment or two and actually IMAGINE the love and joy you’ve spread as each person (even in this economic time) enjoys a new abundance from your newly beloved, and now blessed money!

With extraordinary love for YOU and your MONEY!

Kelly

Dancing In The Rain, By Kelly K. Brown

A rainy day at the 3 Rivers Gorge Dam in China



"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... it's about learning to dance in the rain!" ---Nancy Salmon

This is such an incredible quote and a true understanding of its message could make all the difference in the world---LITERALLY to the entire world!

I know that sounds strange, so go with me here for a moment...

The one thing we know for certain about life is that it happens! The good and the bad (which I prefer to think of only as ‘contrast’)—and regardless… it happens.

Death, birth, illness, well-being, shortage of money, extravagant surplus of money, starvation and obesity, economic fluctuations in any direction, those who live to serve, and those who live seemingly to take advantage---all exist in this world we call our ‘home’.

So why are we surprised when anything happens, good or bad?

We know (yes, we know!) from pretty much the moment we have an awareness of life at all, that each and every one of us will one day physically die. I mean, have you ever met anyone who didn’t… at some point… die? Or get ill or recover, or celebrate through an up time or suffer in a down time? Bemoan it if you wish, but this is the truth of LIFE! Stuff happens!

So again I ask you, why the surprise when some unfortunate incident occurs? Or why the surprise when some incredible good fortune comes your way?

For me, my initiation into awareness of this major life lesson came at a very early age… when I was a mere 5 years old. Through an incredible circumstance, both of my legs were cut off by a lawnmower even though I was physically nowhere near it.

My Dad was mowing the lawn at our home in Illinois with a push mower when the one bolt mechanism that held the blade in place broke off and the entire blade flew out from under the mower, through our rather large yard and hit me across the shin area of both legs and flew beyond me into a field.

Stop for a second and imagine that! Imagine being my Dad who was mowing the lawn! Imagine being my sisters who were standing less than 2 feet away! Imagine being ME! That blade could have gone in any direction, hit anyone, anything or nothing all. But the truth of what happened is this: the blade HIT ME---and in less than an instant, my legs were gone.

I can remember for years after the accident, people asking me how I felt about it and did I ever wonder why it happened to me… and the truth is I never really gave it a thought. In fact, after they’d ask the question, I would more often wonder, “Why NOT me? Why NOT you? Should it have been someone else?”

The point I’m making is that through the ‘circumstance’ of an accident I was given a special insight most people do not learn until they are much older (if indeed they ever learn it at all).

Every time I went to a hospital, a clinic or to physical therapy, I’d see other people like myself or others in much worse condition---and ‘WHY ME?’ became a concept without valid meaning. I would often wonder “WHY ANY of these wonderful children, adults or people?”

My positive mindset and compassion for others (instead of a ‘poor me’ mentality) allowed me to easily overcome my physical condition ‘mentally’ by achieving a very good (and very valid) perspective about life!

At an incredibly young age, I understood something very important about life, I understood that:

Life wasn’t ‘for’ or ‘against’ me based on some random accident (or other life circumstance). My Life is WHAT I CREATE it to be through my own interpretation and perspectives about EVERYTHING! My inner joy came about through my understanding of what that MEANT about life in general.

That is what the quote above is all about. Storms will come and go, but it’s the learning how to dance in the rain that makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE! HOW you focus YOUR thoughts and feelings through the storm WHILE YOU ARE IN IT, determines WHAT and HOW the next circumstance of your life will be. (Keeping in mind how the Law of Attraction works, but of course!)

Think for a moment about Nelson Mandela! I can vividly remember what I was thinking the first time I heard about his positive mindset after all those years of imprisonment. Internally, I was screaming, “There is no way I’d come out of prison speaking love, forgiveness and healing… NO WAY!” And yet, that is exactly what he CHOSE to do and his very thoughts changed the course of HIS LIFE and an entire country’s history in the making!

These are extreme examples and most people will not have to be imprisoned or have their legs amputated to prove the point I’m making. Most people (when reminded) know that they have the power to ‘create their life’ in any situation—it is completely up to them based on the thoughts they choose to think!

Every single day we CHOOSE our thoughts and our focus. From the moment we wake up, we have the FREE WILL to CHOOSE any perspective about the circumstances of life we are living. Choosing the best perspective possible, makes us feel better and allows us to move forward in life with complete and utter joy… It is completely up to us! Remember:

There is no circumstance in life that a better perspective cannot turn the tide and begin attracting something far better than you ever imagined!

So, did having a good perspective bring my legs back? Did focusing on forgiveness and love get back all the years Mandela lost in prison? Not at all! BUT understanding... accepting and allowing that ‘what is’ IS ‘what is’, and then choosing the best thoughts and perspectives about all you DO have and all you CAN DO, creates all the difference in the world not only for you in the moment you do it, but for every single life you are fortunate enough to touch.

Thoughts do become things indeed, and finding ways to choose a ‘better’ perspective about any situation you are currently in will only create better future circumstances in your life.

Today, I challenge you to listen to your thoughts! What are your thoughts telling you about your future? Are they saying, “Poor me, why does this always happen to me?” which only brings more of the same. Or are they saying, “Wow, this was unexpected; how can I now think about this experience in a way that will help me feel better?” Or, How can I use this experience to help someone else, uplift another or encourage someone in need?”

In the meantime, should a storm of life catch you by surprise, you can choose to face it by opening with a brand new thought...

“Let the Dance Begin!”

Always dancing in mind, body and spirit…

Kelly

To alleviate any confusion, please note: through a series of surgeries my legs were re-attached at the time of the original accident, however, gangrene very quickly set into my right leg and it was later re-amputated. I am wonderfully blessed to be incredibly athletic (strangers are always completely surprised when they discover that one of my legs is artificial). I roller skate, water ski, snow ski, have worked out since I was 19 years old and in fact, taught high impact aerobics for 8 years. I took up weight training 5 years ago and currently DANCE anywhere from 2 to 4 nights a week.