You can get in the moment by doing things with your kids.  Incredible things can happen in that “present time” that may well shed light on new options, new information, and certainly, the way you feel about anything that was on your mind before, will so most likely be changed, brighter, and fresher, after you have spent this time with your kids.

I want to share a beautiful article with you.  Enjoy.

PLAYING WITH YOUR CHILD – HOW TO START IT, WHY IT’S SO IMPORTANT

by Winsome Coutts

In these busy times, when parents and children have schedules packed to the max, family closeness can fall by the wayside. Most of us have to make an effort to guarantee that work, school, sports, and chores don’t swallow up the very relationships that make those things important.

When is the last time you played or goofed around with your child? Can you remember back that far? Many parents can’t. Life has made us so serious, so focused, that we’ve lost the joy of the simple things, and play was one of the first to go.

But as any child instinctively knows, play is essential to life. It brightens the heart and lightens the spirit. For kids, who live closer than we do to nature, play is as spontaneous as breathing. Sadly, most grown-ups have lost that skill. Our children can be our refresher course.

Playing with your child brings you back to the present, reminds you of what matters, and slows you down long enough to smell the roses. It also connects you emotionally with your child, rebuilding the closeness that the fast-paced, boring routines of life are all too quick to strip away.

Playing together is even more important for your child than it is for you, because she needs to feel close to you to feel loved and happy. If you’ve neglected time together for long enough, it may appear that your child isn’t interested in your attentions. She may even tell you as much. But that’s just bluster, hiding the fear that you will disappoint her again if she lets herself wish for time alone with you. If you initiate playing together, and do it at frequent intervals, even the most aloof pre-teen will start to look forward to it and, in time, throw herself into the fun.

What kind of playing should you do? Pay attention to the activities your child engages in: his idea of enjoyment. If these things seem boring to you, try hanging out nearby, observing as he does them, with words that express your curiosity. You just may find you actually develop a genuine interest. If your child is a couch potato, take up your perch on the couch beside him, but after you’re allowed “in,” initiate some play that might be more pleasant than TV.

Think back to what you did as a child that was memorable, especially activities you did with your parents that stay with you still. Think about things that are free or cost little, that involve experiencing life together. Start a list of ideas as they come, and add any of the following that you resonate with:

• Raking stacks of autumn leaves, then jumping or rolling in them
• Taking a hike through the forest preserve
• Skating at the roller rink together
• Walking the dog, taking turns with the rope
• Reading comics or joke books together (or books of poetry or stories)
• Making cookies, pizza or a cake
• Building a fort out of snow or chairs and blankets
• Playing hide and seek, hide the thimble, cards or board games
• Lying on a blanket looking up at the stars
• Sitting in front of the wood stove in a dark room, telling stories
• Making shadow figures on the wall with your hands and a flashlight
• Having a treasure hunt
• Roasting marshmallows over a fire
• Watching a parade
• Going to the aquarium, zoo or museum
• Flying kites together
• Building something
• Making a scrapbook
• Making up a silly poem or song
• Watching a movie, with popcorn and no interruptions
• Playing a memory game, like “I’m going to Grandma’s house, and in my suitcase I’m going to pack …”
• Getting up early to watch the sunrise from a hill
• Playing games of pretend
• Going somewhere special, like the beach
• Having a pancake picnic in the snow

Playing together is different than finding entertaining activities for your child. Play involves you, while entertainment excuses you from the picture. If you find yourself saying, “But my schedule is too busy for any of the things on that list,” consider whether your schedule needs some pruning. After all, who’s going to remember in 20 years if you stay late at work or not next Tuesday? But will your child ever forget the Tuesday you ride the rollercoaster together?

Closeness with a child cannot be taken for granted. Like any other relationship, it will slip away unless it’s made a priority. Nothing builds trust and bonding with a child like sharing a moment of silliness and laughter. Come together for light-hearted play, and you just may find your child opens up about serious subjects. The relaxed atmosphere of play helps us let our guard down and reveal more of ourselves.

When you play together, let your child feel like the most important person in your world. Give him your undivided attention: no cell phones, no interruptions, no slipping into your own private thoughts. Be present – body, mind and spirit. Then let yourself do whatever comes naturally, with the abandon you felt when you yourself were a child. Your instincts will be your guide.

Growing closer through play is easy. It just takes dedicated moments, given on a fairly regular basis, so your child begins to count on having time with you.

Let your child re-teach you the wonderful secrets of play. You both will feel more secure and peaceful – and a whole lot happier, as the reason you do it all for, starts to come back to you.

Winsome Coutts holds a teacher’s certificate in education and has written hundreds of articles on self-development. She has studied with Bob Proctor and John Demartini, popular teachers featured on “The Secret” DVD. She is the passion behind the www.4lifehappykids.com and is a parent and grandparent.

Winsome is author of “Go for Your Goals” for kids – a set of downloadable e-books that guide your child through the joyful steps of learning visualization, goal-setting and the Law of Attraction. Simple language enhanced with beautiful illustrations and worksheets make these books appealing and motivating. To learn more, visit www.4lifehappykids.com

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The Law of Attraction has opened many doors for me.  It is really, really Terrifically Great that there is now more and more information opening up with the wider perspective of including “Family” as well as “Adult Individual” and the Law of Attraction.   As adults it is easy to get caught up in our own worlds as we go through changes.  Even working with the Laws of Attraction, applying them perspectively when interacting with our kids, grandkids, neices, nephews, or the young people we encounter out and about might not come naturally unless we consciously orient ourselves to the more expanded view.

This is very much worth checking out:   The Owner’s Manual to Zero Worry Kids FREE Report

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Before I proceed further I want to comment on my own last post, mainly my saying that my temperature was 103 or higher.  I really can not back that specifically except that I can say it “felt very hot”.  Even drinking Really Good Water it was difficult to keep myself hydrated between sleep, wakefulness, and energy.  I don’t remember when I had a temp of 103 that was read on a thermometer that I can compare the temperature with.

So, I am happy to be back, feeling active and connected.   I read from the Money, and The Law of Attraction Card Deck over the past 2 months, prior to becoming ill about 2 weeks ago. I have a few cards to offer you now as a kind of “finale”, but first I want to share an interpretation of this New Moon, January 15, 2010 with you by:

Dale Osadchuk is an Artist, Spiritual Astrologer, and Transformational Counselor. She is available for consultations in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada in person or by telephone. You can contact her at 905-883-3192. To receive her brochure of Astrological sessions, New Moon Meditation schedule or to be added to her free New Moon list contact her at daleosadchuk@rogers.com

“Capricorn New Moon and Solar Eclipse- Jan 15- 2.11am- This powerful New Moon is giving you the opportunity to plant seeds that you wish to nurture for the rest of the year. Capricorn is the sign that asks you to embrace your power in the world and on a spiritual level to step into your Soul Purpose. The Eclipse is symbolic of learning to listen to your inner knowing (the Moon) instead of your ego (the Sun).

Pay attention to what “feels” right and you will discover your true path.”

There has been tremendous energy charging everything with New Beginning since we came into this New Year, as I know you know.  The above New Moon Interpretation further brings the energy right up before us as we now set sail on the seas of 2010.

Card 53  Appreciation and Love Are Identical Vibrations . . .Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels bad and the presence of everything that feels good.  When you focus upon what you want—when you tell the story of how you want your life to be—you will come closer and closer to the vicinity of appreciation, and when you reach it, it will pull you toward all things that you consider to be good in a very powerful way.

Card 27  I will Praise Success Wherever I See It . . . When you find yourself critical of the way anyone has attracted or is using money, you are pushing money away from you.  but when you realize that what others do with money has nothing to do with you, and that your primary work is to think and speak and do what feels good to you, then you will bein alignment not only about th subject of money, but about every important subject in your physical experience.

Card 44  I Can Make a Career of Living Happily Ever After . . . A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth—and joy.  Make a “career” of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy.  When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you—and what you do “for a living” makes you happy—-you have found the best of all combinations.

Card 47  My Career Is One of Creating a Joyful Life Experience . . . If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions—freedom, growth, and joy—will come quickly and easily into alignment.  See your “career” as one of creating a joyful life experience.  You are not a creator of things, or a regurgitator of what someone else has created, or a gatherer of stuff.  You are a creator, and the subject of your creation  is your joyful life experience.  That is your mission.  That is your quest.  That is why you are here.

Card 24  I Want to Harmonize with What I Believe Is Good . . .I want to be the best that I can be.  I want to do and have and live in a way that is in harmony with my idea of the greatest goodness.  I want to harmonize physically here in this body with that which I believe to be the best, or the good way, of life. If you will make those statements, and then do not take action unless you feel good, you will always be moving in harmony with your idea of that which is good.

Card 58  I Can Earn Money by Doing What I Love to Do . . . As you practice your more positive, better-feeling story, in time your pleasure will become the dominant vibration within you; and then as you couple your pleasure with your means of earning, the two will blend perfectly and enhance each other.            There is no better way to earn money that to do the things you love to do.  Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows—but only your attitude toward money.

Another important thing to remember, which I have been learning through Abraham-Hicks and the teachings of the Law of Attraction, is to remember to choose the best thoughts, when things are rough and the onslaught of what seems to be coming at you is overwhelming with what feels negative, remember to  reach for the next best thoughts available to you, always look for and choose the best thoughts and feelings.  It is a goal of mine to get really good at being able to stop before the wave of unfortunate possibilities and thoughts starts rolling me, give myself some space to breathe, and Reach For the Best Thoughts Available to Me and choose from there, always to remember to Look For the Best to Come.

I look forward to this year ahead and discovering more of all of the possibilities available to me, developing my skills to live more and more creatively in Appreciation, Love, and Joy.

There are Challenges ahead which offer us the Opportunity for Expansion, Creativity, and Success beyond what we have imagined.  What exciting times we are embarking upon as we turn to face this next decade.  I have this image of big ships with sails, turning to the swells of the open water and new adventures.

Thank you for being here.

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Hello.  I experienced the “fever, like a heat wave” earlier this week.  I was in it all of the way before I knew it.  I don’t own a thermometer, but I am sure it has been in the range of 103, likely higher.  I had a lot planned to be working on this week.  So, I asked “Why?”  and in the midst of my dreaming, I got my answer, “emptying”.

Some of the self-development programs will say that illness at a prime time is self-sabatoge.  I will say not with a fever with this much heat.  I wrote my Full Moon, Eclipse, Super Moon Resolution twice.  Once when others were around and a day later I made a clear, more personal addendum, burning it also.

This flows with the aftermath of a big crescendo and decrease of the moon.  It is all in Perfect Timing.

I am sorry about missed cards.  I am loosing energy fast so I will give you one card for today.

Card 28  I am developing the skill to Direct My Thoughts . . . The most valuable skill or talent that you could ever develop is that of directing your thoughts toward what you want – - -to be adept at quickly evaluating all situations and then quickly coming most want—and then giving your undivided attention to that.  There is a tremendous skill in deliberatelly to the conclusions of what you directing your own thoughts that will yeld results that cannot be compared with results that mere action can provide.

There is more, but, not tonight.

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Day 52

Card 15  I Can Give My Attention to the Positive Aspects . . . Things are coming into your experience in response to your vibration.  Your vibration is offered because of the thoughts you are thinking, and you can tell by the way you feel what kinds of thoughts you are thinking.  Find good-feeling thoughts, and good-feeling manifestations must follow.             Make a decision to look for the best-feeling aspects of whatever you must give you attention to, and otherwise look only for good-feeling things to give your attention to—and your life will become one of increasingly good-feeling aspects.

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Card 28  The most valuable skill or talent that you could ever develop is that of directing your thoughts toward what you want—to be adept at quickly evaluating all situations and then  quickly coming to the conclusion of what you most want—and then giving your undivided attention to that.  There is a tremendous skill in deliberately directing your own thought that will yield results that cannot be compared with results that mere action can provide.

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Card 4  Achieving Success Is My Natural Birthright . . . You are meant to succeed, and failure should feel bad to you.  Life is supposed to go well for you—and when it does not, there is something wrong.  But what is wrong is not something that is outside of you over which you have no control.  What is wrong is within you—and you do have contro.  ANd taking control is not difficult to do once you understand the basis of who-you-are, the basics of the Law of Attraction, and the value of your personal Emotional Guidance System.

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Day 48 Counting the days for reading the cards has me noticing how it is time passes, what the time is filled with.  One of the cards says that there is no shortage of time or money.  It is all about perspective.  The more all of this information sinks in, the more amazing it is!  I have 2 cards for today.

Card 21  What-If Everything Was Always Working Out for Me . . .?  When you play the What-If? game, look for things that make you feel better.  There is never a situation in which there is not a way out—but, out of habit, most people continue to choose the “lack” perspective until they eventually find themselves where it seems that there are no more choices.  But as you hold to your intention to look for evidence of Well-Being and thriving and success and happiness, you will tune yourself to the vibrations of those things—and so those kinds of good-feeling experiences will dominate your life.

I received an email today that gave the statistics that by today 2/3 of  the people who make resolutions have already broken those promises to themselves and by the end of the month 99% of them will have dropped their resolutions. It seems to me that this card is addressing that.  It is OUR CHOICE and if we go with the “What-If Everything Was Always Working Out for Me . . . ?  We will be aligned with the message of “Appreciation and Love” are the same thing because if we hold the idea, the thought that Everything is Always Working out for us, then we will attract that, and we will surely have plenty to Appreciate and Love in our lives then.  And, if we have Appreciation and Love, we are going to continue to attract it. So here is the next card, offering a little support for things Always Working Out . . .

I Will Tell My Story as I want It to Be . . . If you let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever improving story.  for by the powerful Law of Attraction —the essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn—it must be!!

That doesn’t mean lie or make up a story.  It comes back to “PIVOTING” which has been mentioned.  It is all a matter of the perspective we want to claim as our experience.  We can be bummed out or we can choose to consider other options and points of view that we feel different about because we are lining up with “How we choose to feel” about something.  How we feel has HUGE Creative Power.  If we choose to feel good all of the time, we will attract more reasons to feel good.  Feeling good doesn’t have to be the same feeling good, it can be lively, too, happy.  These concepts or Laws are like a puzzle in a way.  The more I consider it, the more I experience my life changing.  I like it!  Better ;than that, I love it.  I Love My Life!!  And I Love the Law of Attraction!  I am so happy about that now, that I am ok with not having put these pieces together sooner, even though I could have once really beat myself up about it.  I have been picking up Crystals along the trail and it has led me to right here and now.  The past has served its purpose and there is, I am sure, lots more to what that purpose has been than I know.  I could go round and round on that about what could have been different if . . . but that is something I am not going to bother with because I am RIGHT HERE IN THIS SPACE, PLACE, AND TIME RIGHT NOW!

Let’s make this an Incredible Year.  Let’s Own Our Resolutions and Manifest Them in 2010!

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Day 47  This has been a very high energy holiday season.  As we move forward into this first week of what promises to be a very transforming year, the application of Love and Appreciation to our daily lives will keep us steady and contribute much needed energy to the world.  This was also the card drawn 2 days ago. This means we can really fill ourselves up with Appreciation and Love.  Release lesser and unwanted vibrations and replace them with Appreciation and Love.  Quietly ponder all we love and appreciate.  Write a list.  Writing is powerful.  It is also very powerful to relax deeply and quietly, still or release thoughts to experience our own presence and that of source, in Appreciation and Love.  Be in peace and Begin this year embracing the vibration we choose.

Card 53  Appreciation and Love Are Identical Vibrations . . . Appreciation and love are identical vibrations.  Appreciation is the  vibration of alignment with  who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels bad and the presence of everything that feels good.  when you focus upon what you want—when you tell the story of how you want your life to be—you will come closer and closer to the vicinity of appreciation, and when you reach it, it will pull you toward all things that you consider to be good in a very powerful way.

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Our card for today was drawn by my grandson, Cedar.  Day 46.  This card offers continued encouragement for what we can accomplish through aligning with how we truly feel, connecting more directly with our purpose.

Card 3  Whatever I Desire, I Can Acquire . . . The Eternal Laws of the Universe hold the promise of expansion and joy.  Understanding the Laws will reawaken within you the knowledge of your purpose and your own personal power as you remember how to access the power of the Universe that creates worlds.            If this time-space reality has within it the ability to inspire a desire within you, it is absolute that this time-space reality has the ability to yield you a full and satisfying manifestation of that same desire.  It is Law.

Sharing these cards and discussing them with my grandsons has been insightful and really a joy to hear them relate to me their perspectives and how much they clearly understand at their ages.  Being the adults, it is so important to allow them to have their experiences and perspectives with appreciation.  It is important not to encumber our children, grandchildren, and other young people with unnecessary information.

We are being blessed with wonderful, transforming energy as we start this New Year.  Let’s all remember how fortunate we are with deep appreciation.

Thank you.

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Day 45.  and, I did it again.  I have Day 45 and 46 cards for you at the same time!  I know you have heard that “time is moving faster”, well, I think “time is expanding”, but whichever it is, maybe both?  what I was doing didn’t fit into the time allotted for January 1, 2010!  I did very successful make some happy changes around my home, among other things.  So with my apologies that I didn’t come back around with this card sooner, here is

Card 15  I Can Give My Attention to the Positive Aspects . . . Things are coming into your experience in response to your vibration.  Your vibration is offered because of the thoughts you are thinking, and you can tell by the way you feel what kinds of thoughts you are thinking.  Find good-feeling thoughts, and good-feeling manifestations must follow.          Make a decision to look for the best feeling aspects of whatever you must give your attention to, and otherwise look only for good-feeling things to give your attention to—and your life will become one of increasingly good-feeling aspects.

Especially since the New Moon, the cards have been really positive and focused specifically on the results of the vibration offered with attention given.  This Blue Moon, Eclipse, Super Moon trio has really been a crescendo of positive energy for us starting out this new year. I did not realize this was coming up in this moon cycle.  I received a personal message stating that after researching back to 1901, no similar alignment was found.  The last Blue Moon on New Year’s Eve was December 31, 1990.  December 31, 2028 will be a Blue Moon Lunar Eclipse, but not a Super Moon.  Do you know what a Super Moon is?  A Super Moon occurs when the moon is closer to the Earth than usual.  All three of these happening at the same time is a very special energetic event.  Whenever it might happen again will be after 2028.  We have been blessed.  May 2010 be an awesome year for us all, abundant with manifestations of light and empowerment in all of our lives.

I sincerely hope that you had a safe New Year’s Eve and wish you incredible success and the best of good feelings with your goals and resolutions as we move forward into this year.

The card for January 2nd:

Card 53  Appreciation and Love Are Identical Vibrations. . . Appreciation and love are identical vibrations.  Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels bad and the presence of everything that feels good.  When you focus upon what you want—when you tell the story of how you want your life to be—you will come closer and closer to the vicinity of appreciation, and when you reach it, it will pull you toward all things that you consider to be good in a very powerful way.

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