Spiritual Superstar Blog...by: Carrie McCully

Keeping Resolutions

Today is the day to make a list of goals for the New Year. The fact that many will be fairly unconscious by 12:00 Am., should make it a little bit hard to be enthusiastic about starting your new goals for the year. If that's the case. Make your list now.

People tell me all of the time they admire my discipline. I find that hilarious. I used to be completely inconsistent. It wasn't until I committed to really wanting to change that I started to do what I didn't feel like doing, anyway. Such as working out, or meditating.

The key to changing your thinking is to go out of your comfort zone. No one gets rich, thin, enlightened or anything else, unless, they change their thinking about personal success. You have to be willing to take the chance to create a different life and this usually means facing your fears. The only reason why we don't have what we want, is because we haven't committed to taking the actions that bring the results we want.

Instead we stay in our same thinking patterns that create the same results over and over. Boring!

Make a lists of what you really want to do or change and look at it each morning. Vow to become that change and then do the actions necessary to create the results you want. Especially if you don't feel like doing it, Just do it. Get off the damn couch and go to the gym! Sit down and have dinner with your family. Go to Europe. Just do it!

Expand your horizons. Become uncomfortable and grow. When the thinking changes and you take action, it becomes a comfortable part of your life and you move closer to becoming the real you. You will succeed if you really want to. It's fun to feel your own power at work. Life's too short, Live it.

Happy New Year, Carrie

Can't Meditate?

Sometimes I really have to laugh. People are always telling me that they would like to meditate but can't.
I've been meditating for years now and you know what? Sometimes I get so sidetracked during meditation  I have to laugh out loud. Today I thought about an older women who contacted me and is lonely. I thought of the guy from my blog who has anger issues. I thought about buying pate for a dinner party tonight and how I never took those black pants to be altered.

The point is that your mind doesn't stop thinking, just like you don't stop breathing. It is only that you have to bring your self back to the quiet place of nothingness. There is no wrong way to meditate.
So when you start to wander off, come back to stillness. That is where the pure potential thrives and grows.

Listen...It's There.

Most of my day has been spent listening. Listening to my dear friend who helped me get this blog up and running. Listening to my kids and how much they want to spend more time with me.
Reading is listening and today I heard from some of you stories that made my heartache, for you too have felt the depths of anguish and despair. I heard in myself that voice that wants to help and comfort, to pull you up and to tell you, you are already whole. Let go of the pain it's not real or important anymore. You have to move on and life is good. You are better than good and you're not alone.

The most important thing I heard today was my Mother tell me that she is proud of me and not because I managed to get a blog site up and running. She must feel some peace seeing that her own daughter isn't dying inside anymore. I realized how hard it must of been for her to see me try to self-destruct or to not have enough confidence to do whatever I wanted to do in life with complete self assurance.

Today I heard it. I heard the sound of people saying I love you. When your happy, I'm happy. I heard healing and hope. I finally got quiet and less busy and heard what was there all along. We all want the connection and to love and to be loved. To all who are listening, I love you too.

Spiritual Superstar

Over the last few years I have been trying to combine my New York lifestyle with my personal spiritual practice. I knew it could be done but, how? How does one go about partying with fabulous people, wanting whatever is fashionable at the moment and trying to keep up with the Jones by having your kids in the "right" schools.
With my daily meditation I could keep some balance. With a night out I would lose it for a few days.
I actually set up a set of goals to meditate on how to find this balance and to create clarity for how to do it.
As my profiles explain. I started a regime of asking my self: Who Am I? What do I want? How can I serve? I review this journal and write in everyday. I spend time visualizing how I want to be. I can literally see it. I then drop into a silent meditation.
Nothing is immediate and it has taken time and patience. More than that it has taken forgiving myself when I fall short of my goals and lose clarity. Now that I have been diligent with my practice over the last year. The change is miraculous. I have learned to appreciate creating wealth. I can serve others more. I love my fabulous friends who don't have a clue about spiritual issue. I talk to them about it anyway. Why? Because it is who I am. I decided to be a spiritual superstar. That's how God sees me.
It reminds me that I have pure potential to create all that I want and need+ more, so that I can give back with abundance. My wish to all, is, that they too look into the mirror and see the God in themselves and say, Today and everyday I will think and act like a spiritual Superstar. It's a fun way to enjoy your commitment to your spiritual life. We are all Superstars!

No Time Like The Present

Yesterday I was angry. I angry with an ex-boyfriend who I thought would have called on Christmas or at least, sent an email. I realized how angry I was and knew it was stopping my flow of receiving good things into my day. How can you flow when your clogged?
This morning before my meditation and right after I read a chapter in a book about starting my own new business, the mail man came. He had a package that was meant to arrive on Saturday but had the wrong zip code on it. Inside was a book from the ex on the legalities of starting a new business. If this had come on Saturday I would have been annoyed that it wasn't a "real" present. Only today could I appreciate it.
I text him to say thank You and his response was that he thought I didn't like it and that's why I hadn't called him.
I cried from a really deep place inside. It was because we both felt abandoned and it was exactly the opposite. By acknowledging the anger yesterday I was able to do some introspection. I knew no matter what, I had to forgive and let healing come into the place that had previously been hurt. I let it go last night and today I received the healing. There is no time like the present.

Post Christmas Blues and receiving Goodness.

After setting myself up today with some really positive goals for my future. After meditating, journaling and visualizing. I found myself, fighting with my kids and feeling complete exhaustion.
I spent the morning reading a great book about receiving all of the positive energy the universe has to offer and it is ours to receive and there is even more to receive because so many people reject blessings and abundance. It is the law that the universe abhors a vacuum and I choose to throw out the negative and receive the positive. Wouldn't you know that as soon as I affirmed this to myself, I got hit with really human emotions. Remorse for arguing with the ones I love the most. Feelings of loneliness and hating my body.
The kids went off with their father for a few days and I was left with this pity me mentality and anxiety.
I realized how angry I am. How can I receive the abundance and create the life I want if I can't let go of the anger. The anger I have for the men in my life amongst other things is blocking my ability to receive.
So I am committing to forgive them and to let this go. I am opening my heart to let good things in.
I am a giver by nature and don't accept gifts easily. I am opening myself up to receive. There are after all two sides to a coin.

No Time Like today

MINA PLUGGED IN is my story about over coming pain, disfunction and addictions. Through the work of Deepak Chopra, Joseph Cambell and others I made a choice to commit to change. It started at a low point a year ago when I was so depressed I could barely move from one room to another. I am a Meditattion teacher and I seemed to have one foot in my spiritual beliefs and one foot in chronic depression.
I created a journal on that day. It was right before my 38 th birthday and it will end on my 40th birthday. It is a gift to myself to see how I could transcend the negative to achieve my full potential. I am now a year into this and am a different person. I am still me, but, I am fully functioning and creating the life I've always believed I should live. MINA is me Carrie. she is "ME NOW" an alter ego I created when I feel challenged by life and am too scared to to anythig but procrastinate. Mina has no childhood wounds, No failed Marriage and no fear of thinking big and succeeding.