Conscious Observation: Upgrading my Label-Maker

It would seem to me that a great awareness I’ve moved into is that I can choose how I label things:  my thoughts, experiences, observations--basically everything.

It’s natural, as a human, to label. It’s how we catalogue the things we see, experience, think, etc., is with a label. It allows us to draw on the filing cabinet of our mind and pull information out and compare it to this new thing, thought or experience.

I am aware that my “label-maker” has some ready-made labels that have come about because of my experiences today. I am aware that I can choose differently.

I have been creating jewellery over the past few months. They have included crystal beads, and beads made of other materials. I’ve even created beads of my own as well. I’ve been creating bracelets, some necklaces and earrings.  I've enjoyed the creating, and the insights that have come with it.

With this creative expression, I’ve been experiencing it differently from what I experienced before. I’ve been more conscious about the feeling while creating. Rather than labelling the creation with the types of beads I was putting in there, I noticed my feelings as I was picking things up and putting them together on my beading board.

"Yes these feel good together. No, this isn’t quite right. That feels better."

Once the creation was complete, I would run up to my office and get my reference books out and look up the properties of the crystals. I was continuously amazed at how beautifully the crystals I had “felt” together actually fit beautifully together.

There were more powerful observations within this creative period as well. There were pieces that broke, or were lost. I was able to observe my reactions to these experiences as well. Within moments, the consciousness that arose was that I have the ability to create, un-create and create again. If something moved on from me, it was okay. There is always something new to create. My attachment to the “thing” diminished. It again was fascinating to observe this.

It makes me wonder, as I move through this series of conscious moments, the value in labelling according to feelings rather than my ready-made labels from my past experiences.

How can labelling things according to feeling change the experience?  What if I did this through other areas of my life?  How would the experience change?

Fascinating stuff.

Dream BIG!

Velma Gallant
The Queen of JOY!
Lazer Clarity Coach

I love my Radio Show!

I'm thrilled to have a new guest on Welcome Changes Radio this coming week.

Keith Cameron Smith, best selling author and inspiration speaker, is coming to speak more about his new book, The Top 10 Distinctions between Millionaires and the Middle Class.

I'm really looking forward to this show. Stop by! We'd love to have you!

Welcome Changes Radio Station ~ Come here to listen online and join in the chat room.

Show time: Feb 26/08 @ 12Noon Eastern

Dream BIG!

Velma Gallant
The Queen of JOY!
Lazer Clarity Coach

PS ~ Check out our past shows too. They're available for download as well.

It Happens Every 14 Secs!

**I made a commitment to make a difference in the world a long time ago.  I think this book is doing some very important world-level work, which is why I made the commitment to support it.**

IT HAPPENS EVERY 14 SECS!

THE LARGEST GLOBAL DISASTER
YOU NEVER HEARD OF

Aids Orphans Rising 

• • Every 14 seconds another child becomes the next AIDS orphan. By 2010, just 2 years from now, there will be 25 million AIDS orphans.
• • The death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children, usually four or five of them who desperately want to stay together as a family - as Child Headed Households.

Get the book --AIDS Orphans Rising-- the one-of-a-kind interactive guide that identifies BOTH the problem and the solutions.  The book is now 25% off – for as little as $11.96, you can help this very important cause.

You can get it at: www.aidsorphansrising.org/bonuses.html and if you purchase today (TUES, FEB. 19, 2008), you will receive thousands of dollars worth of free bonuses.

Before you rush out to get the book today from www.aidsorphansrising.org/bonuses.html or from www.amazon.com let's look at why AIDS Orphans Rising is important to you.

AIDS ORPHANS RISING
by Sr. Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, MPF

      “Many laughed when I said that we discovered a way for AIDS Orphans to go to school and run a profitable business, until they saw the children’s profit intake!

  Take a few minutes to read Aids Orphans Rising and you will learn how your name can be synonymous with AIDS orphans succeeding.

     Isn’t it unbelievable that every 14 seconds new AIDS orphans are formed?  The death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children
usually four or five of them who desperately want to stay together as a family.

  Picture watching your mother and father slowly die before your eyes leaving you to bury them and then having to raise and care for your younger brothers and sisters.

   AIDS Orphans Rising will take you through the daily lives of these children.  Is this a sad story? No, these children want to survive with
their siblings and have a great life.  This is not a story about the usual street kids sniffing glue and looking for their next hit.  This is a story of families that want to stay together, but they can’t do it alone.

What you will learn by reading AIDS Orphans Rising which you can get here:

www.aidsorphansrising.org/bonuses.html  

What is a Child-headed household?  How do they come to be?

Where do they live?

How you can help them get better housing today…

What do they eat?  How you can help them get enough to eat now…

How you might volunteer to help feed the little ones…

What type of education do they receive?

How you can help educate them, give them marketable skills, which will lift them from poverty, at this moment…

How you might volunteer to teach them…

All the statistics you could ever want about HIV/Aids…

What about their health and the health care they receive?

Adoption possibilities – domestic, foreign and from a distance…

All the references and internet sites you could ever want concerning HIV/Aids Orphans…

Volunteer opportunities, not only educational, feeding and health, but also just coming to be with the orphans and give them some needed love…

     Each chapter provides internet links to those working with these children as well as real solutions and actions that you can take now to help these children not only survive but succeed.

     By 2010, only 2 years from now, there will be 25 million AIDS orphans. Wow!  That would be 25,000,000 children under the age of 18 roaming the planet without guidance. Start reading AIDS Orphans Rising today so that you can begin helping the children today.  If good people like yourself do not reach out to these children so they can get love, an education and set up in some profitable enterprise, civilization will deteriorate to a point that you will not even recognize it.  Take action today to help these children succeed.”

www.aidsorphansrising.org/bonuses.html  

Request: Please forward this message to anyone you care about, post it on your blog, share it with others, however you deem appropriate. Thank you.

Warmly,

Velma Gallant
"The Queen of JOY!"
Lazer Clarity Coach
http://www.welcomechanges.com

It's All About the Love

It's all about the LOVE!  And I don't JUST mean expressing Love to others!

I spent this past weekend creating jewellery for myself!  I made a beautiful bracelet with Cotton Candy Jade beads.  I'm worth it!

I also have a gift for you.  ALL Living Abundant Joy products are on 50% off.  That's right!  Every single one!

The discount applies to you automatically, no matter which option you choose!

Use these links to get your 50% off.  This special is for this week only, so until February 17, 2008.

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You're worth it!

Dream BIG!

Velma Gallant
The Queen of JOY!
Lazer Clarity Coach

I couldn't put it down...

In December, amidst the business of the season, I bought a series of books.  They ended up on my shelf with the rest of my library. 

"I'll get to it, one day."

I'm of the habit of buying books when I'm inspired, and reading them later, when I'm inspired.

Thursday I went to the mailbox.  A client sent me a gift, and it had arrived.  :)  (Thank you, J.  The gift was more than you'll know.)

Friday I had a conversation with another friend.  She had invited me to join in on a promotion in December. It ended up lost in the mountain of emails.

I went back and looked at the promo.  I looked at my bookshelf, and realized I had bought that book series. I looked at the gift.  It was the same book series.

There are no coincidences.

"I guess I'd better read it," was my thought.

So many reminders all at once.

Friday night I picked up the book.  I couldn't put it down.

I cooked supper, did laundry, played with my son, and cleaned house.  In between it all, at every opportunity, I picked up the book.

Tonight, Sunday night I completed the first of the three books.

I don't know how to explain what I received from this book.

I'm different, and I'm sure it's not over yet.  The many insights I've received are still sinking in.

Go take a look at this movie.

http://www.welcomechanges.com/recommends/9insights

If it moves you the way it moved me back in December, buy the book.

Just don't do like I did and let it sit on your shelf.

J., I'm truly grateful for the gift.  Thanks for being the messenger.

Dream BIG!

Velma Gallant
"The Queen of JOY!"
Lazer Clarity Coach
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Do you Approve of YOU?

"We can secure other people's approval, if we do it right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it." ~ Mark Twain

Did this quote caused you to look more closely?  Do you really approve of you?  Does someone else's approval mean more to you?  Do you seek others approval FIRST before your own?

You may find value in the 7 Roadblocks to Self Love Report.  Go to http://www.welcomechanges.com and order your free copy of the report.

How you feel about you, and how you treat you has more to do with your success than the approval of others.

Dream BIG!
Velma Gallant
"The Queen of JOY!"
Lazer Clarity Coach
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More on Creativity and Problems

I shared Amanda with you for the first time back in December 2007, when she was a guest on Welcome Changes Radio.

We had an absolute blast, and it was a wonderful conversation!  I absolutely love Amanda.

I want to share her with you again.

http://www.welcomechanges.com/recommends/cps

We've talked, over the past few weeks, about problem solving, and creativity.  The articles
are posted at http://www.inspired-in-action.com if you need a refresher.

Amanda has just re-released her Creative Problem Solving package, and it's really really good!

http://www.welcomechanges.com/recommends/cps

I'll let her tell you how she's updated the program.

I wanted to share with you my experience of Amanda's program.

I fall asleep.  And I mean that in a good way!

Her voice is wonderful, and she brings me to a place of complete relaxation.  When I am complete with her mediation, I'm fully awake, and sooooo grounded.  It's a great feeling.  I feel like I can breathe again.

I don't know about you, but when contrast comes up, I get a shortness in my breath, and don't feel connected.

Amanda's meditation is one of the tools I tap into when that happens.  It brings me back into the now.  I open up to possibilities again.

Below is Amanda's note, so you can find out what she did to update it.

Are you ready for Creative problem solving?

http://www.welcomechanges.com/recommends/cps

Dream BIG!

Velma Gallant
"The Queen of JOY!"
Lazer Clarity Coach
http://www.welcomechanges.com

PS ~ You can go download the radio interview with Amanda too by visiting http://welcomechanges.com/radio/listen-live-and-download

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It’s all finally finished!

We have got the Creative Problem Solver Relaxation now onto MP3 for easy listening.

And the workbook has been updated.

It has tons of ideas for solving any problem Quickly, easily and creatively.

I have also added in a bunch of exciting Bonuses for you.

The "Creative Problem Solver," is a no-stress, no effort solution to solving any problem.

It's "Designed to allow you to create the answers to the day to day challenges that occur in your life.

You can use this MP3 at bedtime, so that your creative mind can work on your problems for you, while you sleep.

You can also listen to it during the day if you need some creative inspiration for a project, or you would like to create an ideal outcome to an important task or simply to pamper yourself with some chill out and de-stress time."

Go and have a look

Amanda Goldston

Creative Journaling

I teach about how to use your Journal as a Law of Attraction tool.  It's really easy, and it only takes 5 minutes a day.

I wrote in my Journal today.  I had something to "dump and flip" about.  I may be a coach, but that doesn't mean contrast doesn't show up for me too!

You can get the Introduction to Journal to Abundance journal for free by visiting http://www.welcomechanges.com by the way.

Anyway, back to the Dump and Flip.  (I explain the tool in more detail on the Journaling audio.)

I've been using a Journaling Software.  It makes it easy to journal daily on my computer.  I wrote my dumps, and then I wrote out my flips.  It definitely made me feel better, but I had to get rid of my dumps.  I just changed the font format to "strike through", and then I highlighted my flips in purple!  (I love purple.)  Easy!

Head on over and get your copy of Introduction to Journal to Abundance.  Next, head over to get a free 30 day trial of the Journal Software.  Try it out for just 30 days and I'll bet you notice changes...for the better!

Dream BIG! Velma Gallant
"The Queen of JOY!"
Lazer Clarity Coach
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Did you know I’ll pay for some of your coaching fees? 
Ask me how!
<><><><><><><><><>
I coach Entrepreneurs to lazer in on what's vital
to achieve Joy-Filled Balance in Life and Work.
<><><><><><><><><>
http://www.queenofjoy.com
http://www.velmagallant.com
http://www.welcomechanges.com
http://www.livingabundantjoy.com  
http://www.masteryourvibration.com
http://www.wakeuptochangemovie.com  
http://www.leanandcomplete.com
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Get INTENSE about Mastering YOUR Vibration

Master Your Vibration Intensive

Are you ready to get INTENSE about Mastering YOUR Vibration? 

In this 12 week program you will learn

• When Positive Thinking is NOT the best course of action, and what to do instead.
• How to live with the Negative Nancy's and Doubting Thomas's you love.
• What it is you REALLY want and how what you THINK you want can lead you there.
• Free up Time and Energy for the things that ARE Your Joys
• How to have FUN again, and experience life with a Child-Like wonder

You will also:

• Open the communication lines between your Physical Self (aka Ego) and your Inspired Self (aka Spirit).  (ALL of you is important and valuable.)
• Build strong trust between your Physical and Inspired Self.
• Delegate appropriate tasks according to the strengths of your Physical Self and Inspired Self.
• Know what your strengths are, and begin living from that perspective rather than focusing on and patching your weaknesses.
• Create for the sake of Creating.  Stop analyzing your intentions, and begin Inspired Living.

This 12 week group coaching intensive includes:

• 12 One-hour group coaching telesessions
• 3 thirty-minute private lazer coaching telesessions
• Private Group e-coaching community
• MP3 recordings of all group and private coaching sessions
• Grab Bag of Goodies that will come by snail mail

Details for the program are as follows:

Date:  Wednesdays, March 5, 2008 to May 28, 2008
       (excluding March 26, 2008)

Time:  4:30-5:30 PM Eastern / 1:30-2:30 Pacific

Cost:  $600 or Easy Pay for 3 payments of $225

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL:  $525 on or before February 15, 2008

This program is by application only.  Please send your request through to Brandie@welcomechanges.com to set up your 15 minute application appointment.  There are only
4 seats available, so act quickly!

Dream BIG!

Velma Gallant
"The Queen of JOY!"
Lazer Clarity Coach
<><><><><><><><><>
Did you know I'll pay for some of your coaching fees? 
Ask me how!
<><><><><><><><><>
I coach Entrepreneurs to lazer in on what's vital
to achieve Joy-Filled Balance in Life and Work.
<><><><><><><><><>
http://www.queenofjoy.com  
http://www.welcomechanges.com  
http://www.livingabundantjoy.com  
http://www.masteryourvibration.com  
http://www.wakeuptochangemovie.com  
http://www.leanandcomplete.com  
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Hello world!

Yeah!  Hello World!

I figured it was time to get a Velma Blog up!  My intention with this site is to blog more, and to share, in one place, all the things that I'm up to, whether it be websites, articles, programs, learning and growing.

I'm a work in progress, so this site can grow right along with me!

Dream BIG!

Velma