I am gearing up to meet Amma in Seattle this weekend (check out my post last year on the purest love I experienced with her-http://bit.ly/12NjYza), then I am off to Hawaii and Fiji! I am living my dream of working off my laptop on an exotic beach;) All of this last minute travel has been teaching me quite a bit about myself especially around my relationship with money and people. I noticed that as I had started to spend quality time with people who I felt uplifted and inspired around, money and opportunities started to flow my way.

The Queen of Earth card below from the Angel Tarot Cards shows us how we can create magic all around us if we stay connected to our surroundings, spend quality time with individuals who we leave feeling refreshed and renewed and she especially shows us that bringing in compassion into situations allows us to have positive outcomes to challenges.

Have you realized that when you are happy and feeling healthy, that everything seems to be better? When we are in the flow of life, relationships are better, there is more opportunities coming your way and all your manifestations are coming true. Wouldn’t it be great to feel this way all the time?

It is possible that you can. It is a choice you make to “BE” happy, “BE” content and “BE” present around the people you enjoy spending time with. If you notice diverging from any of these states, ask yourself “am I avoiding intimacy,” or “how do I feel around these individuals?” I will remind you that no one can make you feel any which way, if someone makes us tired or a little negative than we are allowing someone else to determine how we feel. If you notice that you are constantly feeling a little more down around a certain person, ask yourself “what is it that they remind me of that gets me feeling anything less than positive?”

I know that this post is loaded with relationship related questions that we will unpack over the next couple of weeks as we gear up for the 4 part – call series on Attracting more Money and Live Healthier.

I will leave you off with an exercise to visit your current list of family and friends and see who you feel the most refreshed around, rejuvenated and inspired by. I would suggest spending more time around those individuals and watch how much more grateful you are towards life then!

Exciting Events coming up

June 19th – “Truths and Myths of Successful Startup Businesses” – www.byobfsuccessstartup.eventbrite.ca

Come learn from experts and entrepreneurs on tips on how to have a successful startup.

June 20th – “Wealthylicious Vancouver” - http://wealthyliciousvancouver.eventbrite.com/

Heal Your Money Stories, Activate Your Millionaire Mindset and Create Multiple Streams of Income.

July 8th – “Attract More Money and Live Healthier” - http://wp.me/P1HP20-7M

A 4 tele-call series on Attracting more Money and living healthier focusing on money mindset, and a 30-day action plan to achieve your goals. (A tele-call series is a group coaching program, where you will be provided a conference call number to dial into during call times and will be sent a recording incase you miss the live class. Email support is provided in between calls to answer all questions you may have)

For me it was important to recognize what I really want out of life and what steps I will take to get it? In the past, I have done the vision board, the goal setting and intentions but I didn’t always take action as I knew I should. Have you ever been in the same boat too?

To shift out of this planning stage into action stage, I took a few steps that I will share with you here:

1. Looked money in the eye! I looked at my budget and really spent time on analyzing where I was spending a lot of money and where I was investing.

2. I looked at what I wanted out of life and how do I really want to feel. There were a few leaps of faith that I will have to take in order to really achieve all that I want and those leaps would require an investment. I had to ask myself, how ready am I to make an investment in myself? My answer was a resounding very ready!

3. I paniked a little as I didn’t know how I was going to be supported. I also realized that I have always been able to attract money when I needed so how would this time be any different? A friend reminded me that everything that I currently wanted was somehow or the other paid for or I had the money lined up for. I realized quickly I didn’t really need to worry.

The budgeting, settling into the feeling, calling in support and most importantly I devised an action plan of how I would move forward. As soon as I took action in one area, many other things fell into place. Planned and inspired action allows us our biggest rewards. What action are you ready to take right now?

Join me in the 4-week tele-call series “Attract More Money and Live healthier”  starting in July. Are you ready to invest in yourself to step towards creating the life you want? http://wp.me/P1HP20-7M

I got so excited and started telling others about it, but I forgot that some others wouldn’t know what that means. Luckily, I am surrounded by individuals who get as excited as I do about things and they are pretty upfront about saying “Manpreet, I am excited for you but I don’t know what it means that you are a Certified Angel Card Reader.”

Well, that was a total oops on my part.

Angel readings that I perform include the cards below as well as other intuitive methods so that you are getting the most out of the reading.

Angel Card Readings consist of you being in a place that you are possibly wondering:

• What’s next for you?
• How can you create the future you want in terms of career, relationships, money and health?
• How you can heal a situation so that it is not impacting you anymore?
• How can you feel more empowered, healthier and feel more fulfilled with life?

Now you are probably wondering what happens in an angel card reading?

We connect via phone or skype. I will ask you to think of a question as I do a prayer to start the reading. As you ask your question out loud, I will draw cards that I will then read. The reading allows me to look at current, past and future of a situation and what other factors that are affecting the situation. It also allows me to identify what needs to be healed, how it can be healed and work with you to heal what no longer serves you either.

In the one hour reading, we are able to go quite deep into what you need to know to move forward in your life.

In a nutshell, an Angel Card Reading will either give you a boost you need to move to next level, begin the commitment to make the changes required in your life or be a fun way to explore what else you can create.

*Special Offer from April 29th – May 5th, purchase an angel card reading session for $100 (valued at $150) and book the time within the month of May http://bit.ly/153YMJ9*

How often do you reflect on your celebrations as you set your goals for the new year?

I am lucky as my birthday is in June so I break the year into two parts as a way to celebrate and set my goals for the next half.

In order to support the accountability to myself, I connect with my own coach and mentor to help me stay on track. What support systems do you have in place for yourself?

On December 12, I will be supporting others in a 3 call series (recorded if you are not able to make it live) -”Stepping powerfully into 2013″- https://intoessencecoaching.wordpress.com/upcoming-courses/steppowerfull/. Allow me to support your journey to a more powerful 2013.

Also to support you in moving to next year, here is the recording fot “3 blocks to reaching your goals and moving past them.” http://yousend.it/QNSPZr

Happy journey!

What kind of love do you most seek? What does this love look like for you?

Our capacity to love is dependent on how much we love ourselves. Our heart can only love what it practices on a daily basis. Many times we believe we really do love ourselves, usually we do. There are different forms of love within ourselves as well.

I personally have struggled with the concept of what does it mean to love myself. It is not something that is tangible. It is not something that is measurable so how can I improve how much I love myself. Being South Asian, there has a history of repressed emotions. This is changing over time as people become more aware of themselves and others around them. This background does further support the notion that I didn’t know how to love myself more.

The steps that I took in order to develop a deeper capacity of love for myself were

1. I developed a clear picture of how I wanted to feel when I fully love myself. I did this through meditation and the feeling of love.

2. I developed a daily list of gratitude for aspects of myself. The list included things I am proud of, achievements and successes I had.

3. I used affirmations like “I am in the process of  loving myself, wholly and completely.” The process of loving myself wholly and completely, allowed me to recognize signs of how I am loving myself.”

Describe for yourself what does love look like for you?

Be in the energy of love each day, every day.

Throughout the year, it is inevitable that you were growing in some area of your life. It may have been subtle or a huge shift that it shifted your world upside down.

Any type of growth and shift is so important regardless of how big or small it is. Sometimes it is the most minor shift that will get us closer to what we really want in our lives.

What were your big or small shifts that helped you shift to a new place? Take 3 minutes to brainstorm what these shifts were. The awareness you are getting by focusing on the shifts will help to further integrate these shifts into your day to day.

The statistics for the Creating Families by Design: Births in BC’s Indo Canadian Community are available at (http://bit.ly/IINXva). The interesting aspects of this study is that this type of selection happens here in Canada, a nation where we are promoting the equality of men and females in all areas of their lives.

The research pointed to the fact that this type of sex selection happens more amongst immigrant families. Through the discussion, the conversation around how South Asian men and women are empowered within the home. The conversation can be applied to any culture, ethnicity and race as the upbringing of individuals as we are conditioned not only by our race, culture, ethnicity but by genetics, society and general programming through media.

Through the workshop, I asked the question of how the women perceive men and women. The answers I received were men are perceived as “ego, confident, dependent, demanding, strong, protectors, and know it all” and women are perceived as 2nd class, weaker sex, victim, honor of the house, nurturer, motherly, and backbone of the family.” It was interesting as the genders were perceived in their roles instead of as individuals.

Through further discussion, the women were asked to go into meditation to get a sense of how they feel during their interactions with masculine and feminine. This exercise led to the discovery that some of the women did not feel the connection of the masculine while they felt a deep connection with the feminine. How do you feel about your connection with your masculine and feminine?

The workshop ended with both roles being seen as leaders, a person, humanitarian, individual, independent and with an identity.

How do you want to be seen in the world? Do these words resonate with you?

The light inside you was designed to shine. Babies have this light shining at the most purest forms. As each day passses, we learn programming, belief systems and pick up the energies of others which may dim our light. For myself, I used to walk into rooms and after about 15 minutes feel overwhelmed with other peoples energies and emotions. I had a belief that this was how I was to help the world by taking on other people’s energies and emotions.

When I learnt techniques and tools to stay in my own power and have boundaries, it was a rebirth of many of my friendships and relationships. I was able to see who I really was and who others were. I was able to connect better to my own self which allowed me to show up in situations happier than I had ever been. What shift happened in your life that allowed a type of rebirth for you?

So on this day of new beginnings, decide what you want to let go of and what you want to bring in? Also how can you bring in support for what you want to bring in?

There are times where most of us have looked outside ourselves for happiness or joy either from an achievement, friend, partner, money , etc. Ask yourself “where have I looked for joy?”

Are you surprised by this answer? Now remember a time when you really felt happy. What were the circumstances that got you to that state? Was it the fact that a new partner came into your life and you realized how much you had grown as a person? Was it that you committed to yourself and achieved a goal? Notice the statements show you as the owner of your happiness.

I decided to read the book on this lesson. My takeaways were:
1. Ask yourself what truly would make you happy.
2. Choose to be happy
3. Accept and celebrate that you are in charge of your own happiness.

Smile. You are in charge.