Life is Awesome

I've received a few messages asking for new posts and new content. What can I say? You are completely right. I have nearly stopped writing posts for a while!

Now, the great thing about it is that I stopped writing because life has grabbed me completely and taken me up the spiral of excitement, joy and completeness.

Music is changing my life in a breathtaking way. Firstly, I am making music. That itself is enough to make my heart stop. Maybe you can understand this if you are the kind of person who can lie down and while you listen to a song, you travel somewhere else, so far, that when the song finishes you look right and left to remember where you were in the first place... and sometimes it takes you a moment or two to adjust to reality.

Well, yes, maybe I'm saying nonsense here. I simply don't know how to express the joy that music creates in me. I could say that my heart goes faster or slower when I listen to a well-played theme that moves me. It does; I swear it.

So, music is not just something else in my world. Music has always been a very essential part of me. I always loved listening to recorded music or going to awesome concerts. A few minutes ago I was remembering concerts like Paul Simon's where Michael Brecker played an amazing song of himself with his weird sax and I'm pretty sure my heart stopped bumping at some point until the song ended. Pat Metheny, Pedro Aznar, Richard Bona, Mike Stern, John Scofield, and so many others.

Well, right now I am making music and though I'm ages away from producing anything similar to these heroes of mine, the effect that playing has on me is the same effect of a good concert, only multiplied several times.

I find it interesting that the joy and feeling of completeness does not come from the presence of public. The public has an incidence but its effect is not so direct. Public alerts your senses and makes you give the best of you. But contrary to what I believed earlier, the moment you start playing and feeling the music, you forget the public exists. But it is thanks to the public that you are giving the best right there, on the stage.

The amazing energy that flows among the members of the band when we are at the stage is another thing that makes me quiver. We do rehearse, of course, and we do enjoy those rehearsals very, very much. But playing live is completely different, and I'm sure if energy levels were measured then, we would be surprised.

Tonight we went to a jam session where we listened to really awesome musicians. My heart was jumping of joy, especially thanks to the drummer and the bass player. OK, I won't even try to tell you how it was like... music simply flowed, lovely, directly to the heart.

And those awesome musicians invited us to play on the stage. OK, imagine it. Imagine a complete silence, with images crossing in my head: the awesome drummer, the awesome bass player, me and my full awareness of my limitations with the instrument. That collage of images was in my head while stepping on the stage.

I silently thanked life for placing the drummer at the back of everything and everyone... and I fooled myself telling me that nobody could really see me behind the others. I felt terrified like never before. We had played for the first time in front of lots of people not long ago and I didn't have that fear at all!

Our bass player could not play tonight and we played with one very good bass player first, then with that awesome bass player that had earlier made me jump of joy.

The feelings were quite a mixture inside my chest. I was fascinated. It was an amazing honor to make some music with him. And, of course, it gave me a feeling of responsibility that was very similar to fright.

We only played two songs. But the experience was worth a week of my life.

Looking at all this from another point of view, I'm thrilled at the amazingly generous people I'm meeting through music. Every single musician I've met in the last year has been amazingly good with me. They are generous, polite and caring.

Either the Universe is putting the right people in front of me all the time, or musicians are very, very special people.

So, with all this happening, it is true that I'm not feeling like sitting to write many posts lately. But I'm more than ever applying the Law of Attraction, with obvious good results.
The two visualization groups formed with the first buyers of Thriving Together are starting sometime in the next few days and I'm excited with that too. That is the opportunity to manifest new dreams (with a little help of my friends.)

Last but not least, there is a lot of work coming in. The challenge of living as a freelancer is intact and present every single day.

Mmm... is this too weird a blog post? I can only say that it came from the heart at 3:30 am.

Have a great week!

I Answered Five Juicy Questions on Thriving Together

I'm ecstatically witnessing the interest on Thriving Together. A 'Magic' Way to Attract the Life of Our Dreams.

Lyman Reed asked me five interesting questions about it and I think you may be interested in reading my answers. To read them CLICK HERE.

This Is what I Talk about when I Say Deliberate Creation Is Fun

And this is manifestation number... n+1!

Last night I played the drums live, for the first time, with my band. I enjoyed it from start to end. I felt really connected with the other musicians. I was there at that time, really present, with absolute no interference of any type.

As most of you know, when I was a teenager I wanted to be a drummer, but I allowed happenings to interfere between the drums and me and I stopped playing the drums when I was 19.

In April 2007 I wrote in my Intentions Notebook: I want to have dreams again. I want to have energy, illusions, plans, adventures, and a hobby (because I had none of these.)

In late April 2007 I wrote: "I want to play the drums." That was the first time I thought about it. Fast enough, huh?

In December 2007 I took up drums lessons with a friend who happens to be an excellent drummer and in April 2008 I started going to lessons with another excellent drummer and great teacher.

On April 20th, 2008 I first wrote in my notebook: "I take part in an awesome band."

Then an amazing series of happenings took place. Each of them took me to the next.

May 2008. My friend sees an ad asking for a woman drummer. I went to a test but they didn't choose me. The experience was extremely good and it helped me decide I wanted to have a band.

June 2008. I was put in contact with a great bass player with whom we played for a couple of months. It was in those rehearsals that I found out that I really wanted to play jazz and funk and I wanted improvization in the music I made. One day we lost contact for no apparent reason.

August 2008. A new English student comes to me. She is a singer and a beautiful person.

September/October 2008. My English student invites me to a jam session. I go to see her and I end on the stage, playing a couple of jazz themes. I loved the experience. I met a few people there.

November 2008 - I make a visionboard including drumming. Also a PowerPoint presentation stating clearly: "I play in a awesome band that makes my heart jump of joy and we have a great relationship with its members."

January 2009. A guitar player who happened to be at that jam the night I played, called me because she wanted to make a study group of jazz and she wondered if I was interested to join. Of course I did. Guitar, Bass, Drums.

My student and friend, the singer, gets excited with the idea and joins us. One week later a sax player joins us too.

February 26, 2009. The singer and me join in a visualization group.

March 2009 - We both visualized intents related to music and the image appeared (was not searched) of us playing in front of a really big audience.

April 14th 2009 - That was yesterday! We celebrated the singer's birthday with a jam session. We played a few songs in a crowded pub and the experience was absolutely great. We received very good feedback and we enjoyed it greatly.

So, in exactly two years, with the help of the Universe on the Hows, I am playing the drums in an awesome band with awesome members, having lots of fun, learning a lot about music, about living, about sharing and exchanging.

The picture could be clearer, but at least it helps you see the scene better. This is us, thriving together, really enjoying the moment, feeling happy and fulfilled, enjoying a wonderful energy exchange among us and with the public.

Thriving Together in Creating a Better Life

Hi,

Please allow me to invite you to read an article I wrote in Lyman Reed's blog Creating a Better Life.

If you are still wondering a little bit what is Thriving Together about, you may find the article interesting.

I've talked about deliberate creation, about group visualization, and about how I decided this e-book that is having such a good reception.

Also, I highly recommend Lyman's posts. He is super honest about his journey of personal development and his blog is absolutely full of excellent resources and articles.

Let's create a great life together.

Creciendo Juntos. Una forma "mágica" de atraer la vida que soñamos

La traducción al español del libro Thriving Together. A 'Magic' Way to Attract the Life of Our Dreams está disponible a partir de hoy en http://www.thrivingtogether.com/espanhol.htm

Esta fue la traducción más cómoda de mi vida! Tomara las decisiones que tomara, la autora estaba de acuerdo sin necesidad de consultarle nada y pude tomarme un par de libertades que las disfruté muchísimo.

Al trabajar tan de cerca con el original -¡sí, comprobé que el ojo del traductor es más exigente que el del escritor!- tuve la sensación de que podría haber explicado más extensamente algunos conceptos.

Si a alguien le surge cualquier duda, tiene todas las maneras de contacto a su disposición: el e-mail de la página web, los comentarios aquí en el blog, etcétera.

Aprovecho a mandar un agradecimiento público a todos los que me han apoyado incansablemente con este proyecto. También a quienes han comprado el libro y han sido tan amables de hacerme saber sus comentarios.

Aclaro que estas fotos hermosas de amapolas (Poppies) las uso con el permiso de Lexi Sundell de http://www.energiesofcreation.com

Thriving Together - A 'Magic' Way to Attract the Life of Our Dreams

Something like two years ago a group of friends and I made something that we called the Good Vibrations group.

We shared our intentions and vibrated together to achieve what we wanted, with so much success that we were astonished at the results.

Our experience lasted approximately one year and from the moment I saw what we had done, I wanted to write an e-book.

Well, I did that now, it's called Thriving Together - A 'Magic' Way to Attract the Life of Our Dreams, and I'm extraordinarily happy with the results. I know it's you and not me who have to say if the book is good, but God, I am fascinated by it.

If you want to check the book's page, click here.

Note that the 5 first people to buy the book will have a very special opportunity: to join me in a visualization group.

Also note that the more than 50% discount will be valid for the first copies only, so if I were you, I would not wait too long to buy it.

The book was embellished with Lexi Sundell's pictures of poppies and edited by Jordan Rosenfeld, who made sure there was not a hint of Spanish interference in the English version. By the way, I intend to translate it into Spanish soon. Check the website for news regarding this.

What else can I say? That I'm absolutely convinced that I'm giving something of great value to the world and that is something that fills me with joy.



Cheers!
Patricia