Blissalicious Blog

 

What is bringing you bliss today? I'm making spirals out of pretty things! 

These were my Nanna's pearls - I got inspired and made them into something just a little more funky a couple of weeks ago.  There is always bliss in creating something that has never existed before :)

What are the simple pleasures that immerse you in a state of bliss?

xox  Lisa

Artist Kate Hartman takes us on a tour of communication that makes the world look just a little different to the everyday... Her TED talk is quirky, creative and offers an intriguing underlying message about how we can all connect with each other and the things around us in unexpected ways...

Some of us already recognise that everything has energy... Kate takes us to a place where we can visually tap into that energy and see different possibilities for communication.  I found the part about glaciers especially insightful... how do we connect and communicate with people who have a glacial exterior?   Enjoy!

This is what the New Energies of Business can be like when we are willing to step into our authenticity... there's flow, joy and expansion... and what else is possible?



You are invited to join Simone de Haas and I at the next New Energies of Business events:
Sunshine Coast:  29 August 2011
Brisbane:  10 November 2011
Or you can order the video downloads if you can't be there...

We're exploring the energies of contribution, creating value and loving your work.  Have you noticed there's not much of that happening in business at the moment?  And have you noticed that business isn't working so well anymore?  Hmmmm... what if we added some energies that people actually desire to have?  What else could be possible??

Join us to discover some practical new approaches for business in the new energies.  Bliss!

Do you realise there is a difference between a fantasy and creating a possibility you truly desire to see in the world?  This short video with Dr Dain Heer gifts you a great tool for not getting stuck in fantasy realities when you would really like to be creating something totally different! 



What would you be willing to see about the possibilities and potentials before you that is not a fantasy that could totally change your life if you would choose to have it?

A couple of weeks ago I had the gift of 4 days with Gary Douglas, Founder of Access Consciousness and wow, did I have my fantasy world rearranged!  I'm so not looking to build castles in the air anymore - it's exhausting!!

Instead I'm looking for the playful creative energy that already exists that allows me to create the changes I wish to see in the world... and that is a totally different feeling to wishing and hoping for something that has no energetic base... that is just a figment of my imagination... we value imagination but what if following the energy of what is possible can actually deliver something much greater than we can imagine?

And you know what else?  When we stop following fantasies and start following the energy of possibilities, all of a sudden there is a whole lot less that is required of us, there is a whole lot more ease and joy and amazing stuff just shows up without us even trying... so how does it get better than that?  Would you be willing to find out??

After all, bliss is simply the energies of love, lightness and joy... so would you like more of that in your life?  It's just a choice to have more consciousness about what you are creating :)

xx Lisa

I have just spent four blissful days at an advanced Access Consciousness class in Brisbane where we laughed non-stop.  Change is totally joyful and blissful if we are willing for it to be lighter than a feather touch! 

Just when I thought I had finished with the being/doing conundrum I have been exploring over the past few months... up popped days of playing with the energy of this!  And in the willingness to explore it further I made a beautiful discovery. 

Access founder Gary Douglas says "Being is the capacity to create a totally different reality just by BEing you."  Now I know I already do this.  I know I can change what is, just by being present with people and having the willingness for change to occur... but what I didn't see (and what I am sure you never see for yourself either!) is how much potency we have in just BEing ALL that we are.

I am so deeply grateful to Gary for reflecting back to me the truth of the energy I BE... what I felt in those moments was indescribable...and it changed my entire universe in an instant.

I saw that there was nothing to judge in me, but plenty to be in allowance of.  I saw the immensity of my BEing and the infinite possibilities of allowing myself to be unlimited.  I saw that everything I require is already within me. I saw the pure joy and love that we all have wrapped up so tightly inside... and I saw the possibilities for the world if I was to be vulnerable enough to BE this beautiful energy without hiding. 

I am not sure what else to say except WOW! 

We are all so much greater than this reality would have us believe.  We are all so much greater than we are willing to see.  So what would it take for each of us to start shining that greatness into the world with a brightness and lightness that could transform anything, create anything and BE anything we choose? We are the gold and the change we are seeking...

If you have been wondering how to step up, know the time is now and the only thing you need to 'DO' is BE YOU!  Without limitation, without shame, without doubt.  If you are here now, you have a contribution to make.  If you are reading this know there are no mistakes... your time is now.  Would you hold my hand, take that first tiny step and invite the world to experience the brilliance of you?

xx Lisa

Image Gratitude

I had a great giggle at this... it made me ask a lot of questions :)



I loooooooove how this girl gave each of these people the opportunity to see the world differently!!

• How much do we have fixed points of view about how things 'should be'?
• How much do we love to control the outcomes rather than go with the flow?
• How much do our expectations dictate our responses?
• How much judgment are we willing to receive for doing things 'my way'?
• How much joy is there in having no point of view about something being 'right or wrong'?
• How much freedom could we have if we found the humour in everything we experience?
• How much fun can we have NOT meeting everyone else's expectations?

Just a few of the ideas that came to mind as I giggled my way through this playful video... enjoy your Friday!!
xox
Lisa

Close your eyes for a moment and think about a food you really love to eat, something that when it slides off the spoon into your mouth creates a burst of pleasure for your tastebuds…  (I’m thinking of condensed milk caramel… yummmmmmm)

Now think of eating it off a cheap plastic spoon… how does that affect your pleasure?  What about off a standard aluminum or stainless steel spoon?  Any better?  Now imagine being fed this same food off a beautiful silver spoon by someone you find totally luscious and gorgeous… does this feel so much more amazing?

How often are we taking the least pleasurable path, when with just a little more effort we could immerse ourselves in a total panorama of pleasure?  What are the possibilities of you looking at some of the things you do everyday and asking how you could add just a little more pleasure into those activities?

When my Nanna died, we found no less than 8 unused dinner sets sitting around in cupboards… she had beautiful things which she saved for ‘good’ – we are good, now is the time!  Would you be willing to set  your pleasure panorama wider and higher?  What if pleasure could expand into every little area of our lives… how much could we have to be grateful for and to love?

If you want to play with more pleasure possibilities, the Brisbane Bliss Lounge will allow you to walk the pleasure plank with joy… come and play!  June 8 – Bookings Essential!

(Image: Pinterest)

My Facebook friends have seen my recent obsession with getting words on the page.  I have less than 20,000 words left to write for my new book The Mojo of Flow (launching in July!) and I am often posting on Facebook when I’m writing because I love the conversations that develop around different topics!

In writing this book, it's been interesting to see where my thinking has been influenced, and how intensely words can contribute to our lives.  As a child I spent immeasureable joyful hours reading and became both a prolific reader and a fairly competent writer as a result.  I have kept these habits as I have grown up and still love to get my hands on a good book, disappearing off deep into other realities.

This week I have started playing with another new project (still top secret!!) and was making a list of the many books I would consider essential if I had the perfect library.  I love books almost as much as I love chocolate and have read thousands.  I thought I’d share a few of my life-changing favourites with you!

When I was 16 my Auntie Anne gave me a hardcover copy of Kahlil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’ – I still have that book. There have been many moments when I have been grateful for its beauty and wisdom!

There are two books that had a huge impact when I had burnout:  ‘The Highly Sensitive Person’ by Dr Elaine Aron – mostly because I didn’t know I was one and when I read it my entire life made sense for the first time!  ‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julia Cameron also had a huge impact because I was a recovering workaholic and creativity was my new drug of choice!

I couldn’t think of a single title from either of my university degrees that had a significant impact, but can definitely say that Seth Godin’s ‘Tribes’, Jason Fried’s ‘Rework’ and Michael Bungay Stanier’s ‘Do More Great Work’ have made significant differences to my businesses.

The self-development field is vast and I have been reading books in this genre since I was 14. Some of the classics created change for me but I always knew there must be more. The books from Access Consciousness opened up whole new universes of change and possibilities with an ease I had never imagined!  Hard to choose favourites here, but ‘You Are Magic. Be It.’, ‘Right Riches For You’ and the novel ‘The Place’ have all allowed me to be way more of me! I used to think money would give me this freedom, but really I just needed to rediscover the joys of being me!  

What are your favourite books and why?
xox
Lisa

(PS, I will be sharing two chapters of my book with you for free in a couple of weeks – keep an eye out for the email!  If you aren’t on our list, please sign up!)

So this week I discovered that an addiction to the Words With Friends iPhone app isn't quite enough for me... now there is Unblock Me!  Oh my darling heart!

This simple game is all about moving the red block through the gap on the right by rearranging the blocks.  I started playing as a way of unblocking my creativity when writing... the simple actions of moving the blocks about creates some sort of natural flow.  How does it get even better than that?

What was interesting to discover as I got progressively more and more addicted to playing, is how Unblock Me is like a metaphor for everything that is blocked in our life!  Here's what I see:

• Sometimes you have to move the red block 'backwards' to make progress.
• Whatever linear answer you come up with will probably not work. Go for the next easiest move instead.
• When you least expect it, the solution appears.
• When you hit a really annoying traffic jam, its easier to start the game again, taking a different route.
• When you come to a conclusion about what the solution looks like you go round in circles and get nowhere.
• It doesn't really matter how many steps you take, as long as you're enjoying the game ;-)
• No matter what the journey looks like, the last few moves are always fast and easy and you wonder why you didn't see the solution sooner!
• When you focus on moving the red block through the hole rather than what's in the way, it's a fast game!
• Some of the hardest looking puzzles can be solved the quickest if we don't take the point of view they are hard. None of it is ever as hard as we think.(Time to stop thinking? lol)
• Mostly we don't have to move nearly as many blocks as we think ;-)
• If we really get stuck, leave that game and go play another, when we come back the solution will be effortless!
• When you go with the flow and play intuitively, solutions appear out of nowhere (love that!!).

I have been talking to lots of people feeling blocked in different ways lately, maybe its time for a whole lot more play in your life??

Somehow play makes our world look completely different. Maybe because when we play, we give up all the fantasies of what things 'should' be... and just allow them to BE? (And when we BE, we can see what else is possible!!)

It's Friday... go play some games and unblock yourself so you can have a gorgeously blissful weekend! 
xox
Lisa
(PS. What's your favourite app for relaxing your mind?  Share in the comments below for the rest of us to add to our addictions please!!)

I often look back at my life in awe.  All those jobs that I really didn’t enjoy provided me with the perfect mix of skills and experiences for creating the joyful businesses I now have the pleasure of playing with!

When I really delve into it, I can see exactly why every single one of those experiences happened how it did.  Through my choice, and for my ultimate benefit (even though it definitely didn’t feel like it at the time!)

And now, as I’m going through a personal situation I am finding quite challenging at times, I am discovering a peace with it. This morning for the first time I saw it was possible to have this same internal knowing that whatever it looks like on the surface, and whatever happens, ultimately it will be perfect!

And so it is with all of the ‘negative’ experiences we choose… they hold us up, spin us out, create havoc and ultimately show us different possibilities which could never arise if we didn’t start to look at what else is possible amongst the chaos we sometimes find ourselves in.

So today, I have much gratitude that everything is in perfect order… and I’m willing to choose even more ease, joy, bliss and abundance in my living than I’ve ever had before!

Please know I’m not saying that we should lie down and take everything that drops into our life without question… there’s always choice! So, on those ‘not-so-perfect’ but ultimately absolutely perfect days, here’s a question you can ask to start changing the energy into something closer to what you desire:

What energy, space and consciousness can I contribute to my living today and in the future that will generate, create, and institute more than I imagine possible?

You don’t have to answer it, just be willing to follow your own knowing about what’s required to create a blissful change, within you or externally!

What will you do today to choose bliss, despite what your external reality is displaying?

xx
Lisa