Is it the dream that inspires us to grow . . . or is it in the reaching for the dream. I suspect it’s a bit of both.

I think it is safe to say that as children we are taught to dream about the ‘perfect job’. We were all asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” My answer was always a Veterinarian or a teacher. I loved, and still love animals and I also knew at a young age I was pre-disposed to sharing what I knew. Of course at the age of 7 I knew everything!

But what happens when we realize that what we thought we wanted is not what inspires us? What happens when we are older and ‘get our dream job’? One possible outcome, of many, is that it is truly our ‘dream job for life’ and we can think of nothing we would rather be doing. Another possible outcome is that we get this dream job and find out, for whatever reason, that maybe it isn’t all we thought it would be.

What a blessing this is!

Really? Achieving your dream job, working through all the resistance and struggles to make it to the cream of the crop only to find out we climbed the ‘wrong mountain’ is a blessing? Absolutely! You did it! You created your dream. I think that’s pretty amazing, no matter what it’s current status may be.

But now what? We have our dream and aren’t inspired to continue down this path.

There is not something we’re supposed to do. There’s not something that we should do. There is only that which we are inspired to do. And how do we get inspired except by the contrast? It’s the life experience that gives us the idea of the desire, and then as we focus upon the desire, the Universe shows us the direction of our next great adventure.

A happy life is simply a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life. Some people are so focused on the ‘dream’ that they forget that life is the journey. They forget that life is the messy parts in the middle of the inspiration and the achieving.

So if you have already achieved your dream . . . and in the achieving you have come to realize that the person you are now is experiencing a contrast so large that it has inspired you to new dreams  . . .  go for it! You already know you can climb the mountain. May as well have some fun creating and climbing the new one. Dream on!

In Love and Light

Becca Niday

www.AMajesticMountainRetreat.com

Where Nature meets Luxury and you wrap yourself in Serenity, Beauty and Magic

If played with a deck of cards, the number of games possible is quite large, and of course, not all are winnable. It’s statistically impossible. I thought was also the case with the computer game - that not all were winnable. I was wrong. I read an article about it and it was designed that ALL games are winnable. Imagine that. KNOWING that the game you are about to play can be won.

Before I knew this fact, there were some games that I just could not get my head around. No matter which course I took, it just wasn’t there, so I quit and went to the next one. Because the foundation of my thoughts and, therefore beliefs, was that I may not win, I accepted the possibility of defeat. And sure enough, I lost. Many times. It’s what I believed would happen so of course it is what happened.

Then I read this article and very quickly I came to see how my beliefs were creating the losses. I believed I could lose so I lost! I saw so clearly how my thoughts created what I experienced. I saw that though a game was in fact winnable, I still lost some because I accepted that it was a possibility. Couldn’t blame this on anyone else – I was the one at the helm.

After I read this, I KNEW that ALL games were winnable and you know what? I started to WIN them ALL! Seriously. Every game I played, I played until I won. Then I decided to start at the beginning with game one, and play them sequentially, and play to WIN! That is what I am doing, and you know what? I am WINNING! (kinda felt like charlie sheen there for a minute! LOL )

What if I took this same belief into EVERY aspect of my life. What if  . . . the premise of all my actions that was no matter what happened, or what I did, I could win? What if  . . . every action I took was taken with the unshakable belief that I already won.

I decided to try this. First just for the most immediate action. Then for the next hour. Then I did it for a day . . .  Now, I believe it for life.

Life is one big winners circle and I am in the center of it. Life is good!

In Love and Light

Becca Niday

www.AMajesticMountainRetreat.com

Where Nature meets Luxury and you wrap yourself in Serenity, Beauty and Magic

My mind runs through my endless to-do list with equal parts dispassion and longing to get up and tackle at least one of the items. I wonder . . . about the timing of life and the need to live each moment as it presents itself, as I see it unfold.

I realize that some things are not happen right now because the timing isn’t perfect. Some things I’m not letting happen because I am very aware of where I am and where I dream to go. But all things, as they are happening, are happening in perfect time. And when I relax and remind myself that, “Everything in its perfect time. Everything is unfolding exactly as it needs to unfold and I am enjoying where I am now, in relationship to where I’m going. Content where I am, and eager for more,” no matter how hard the wind blows or which way the rain falls, life is indeed perfect.

In Love and Light

Becca Niday

www.AMajesticMountainRetreat.com

Where Nature meets Luxury and you wrap yourself in Serenity, Beauty and Magic

What if when you woke tomorrow, everything you think today will happen?

You are picky about what you wear . . .  you are picky about the car you drive . . . you are picky about the food you eat . . .

Are you picky about the thoughts you think?

In Love and Light

Becca Niday

www.AMajesticMountainRetreat.com

Where Nature meets Luxury and you wrap yourself in Serenity, Beauty and Magic

I believe it’s wellness. I believe it’s joy. I knew someone who didn’t feel alive unless they were fighting off dragons – real or imaginary. Simply watching from a distance was exhausting. Fear is allowing your thoughts to create the life you are trying to avoid. Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t really want. And Joy . . .  well it’s the whole point.

Your happiness is the most significant contribution you can make to your life. In your reaching for what makes you happy – no matter what it is – you are creating a path, a road for your happiness to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, can only benefit from your increased well of happiness.

But what if your today sucks? Been there – done that many times. I know it can be very difficult to see a light anywhere, let alone at the end of the proverbial tunnel. But the first step to a better tomorrow is making peace with your Now. It may sound odd, but the fastest way to get to a new-and-improved feeling is to make peace with your current situation. Can’t find anything in your current situation to feel good about? Been here too! Try making a list of the most positive aspects you can find . . . about anything. In doing this simple task you are actually releasing resistance to the improvements that are waiting for you. If you insist on fighting against the injustices of your now, you are holding yourself in alignment with what you do not want. You can’t get to Joy when you are wallowing in anger or sadness or fear. It defies Law. In every particle of the Universe, there is that which is wanted – and the lack of it.

So where is your attention flowing?

By paying attention to the way you feel, and then choosing thoughts that feel the very best, no matter how small they may seem, you are taking responsibility for your own vibration, which means you are controlling your own point of attraction, which means you are creating the reality you actually want. It’s such a wonderful thing to realize that you can create your own reality without sticking your nose in everybody else’s, and that the less attention you give to everybody else’s reality, the purer your vibration is going to be — and the more you are going to be pleased with what comes to you.

“Ask, and it is given.” I think this means that whether you are creating your new business, asking for a better job, a new relationship or a better feeling, when you state that you desire something else, no matter who is asking or what is being asked for the Universe gathers its energy to deliver. It is the nature of evolution. It is the nature of dreams. It is the promise that whatever you created you can un-create and what ever you desire you can have.

In Love and Light

Becca Niday

www.AMajesticMountainRetreat.com

Where Nature meets Luxury and you wrap yourself in Serenity, Beauty and Magic

Never has this phrase struck such a powerful cord as it did this past MLK weekend.

We were confronted with a River that wanted to go a whole new direction. The essence of disruption. As I sat on the slowly disappearing bank and watched this river raging a new course, I listened to the boulders tumbling over each other, slamming into the fallen trees and weakened river banks,  and wondered what it would feel like to be in a flow that powerful. It was as if the River, whose course was laid out for the past 50 years, decided it no longer wanted to be on that course and carved a new one, no questions asked. Anything that was in its way was removed.

I started to think about my life and the path I am on. Is this the path I truly want to be on? What is working? What no longer feels right? Am I walking this way out of habit or out of Joy? It’s of no value to look at today and think “tomorrow will bring me Joy”. Tomorrow never comes. There is only today. There is only this moment.

It is logical that by knowing what you do not want, you are able to clarify what you do want. It makes sense to identifying a problem before beginning to look for a solution. But therein lies the rub. I have seen so many friends, over time, become problem oriented rather than solution oriented, and in their viewing and explanation of the problem, they continue to live, to embrace the problem. It’s like they forgot they can change their flow. Whats the point in perpetuating something you clearly don’t want anymore? That which is like unto itself, is drawn—so tell the story you want to live and you will eventually live it.

As you imagine and visualize and speak your new story, in time you will believe the new story, and when that happens, your new story will start to flow, like the river changing its course, into your experience. A belief is only a thought you continue to think. When your beliefs match your desires, then your desires must become your reality.

Be the river. . .  Define what you don’t want . . .  Embrace what you do want .  . . See it . . .  Feel it . . .  Dream it . . .

And eventually you WILL Be it.

In Love and Light

Becca

www.A MajesticMountainRetreat.com

Where Nature Meets Luxury and you wrap yourself in Serenity, Beauty and Magic

So what do you want? What do you want to change? What have you created that you now want to un-create? That’s the cool thing about life – whatever you created you can un-create.

Make no mistake about it – if it is in your life you created it. Everything that you perceive in your life was first created in your thoughts, and the life you are living is a direct reflection of your beliefs, habits and attention – your dominate thoughts. When you give your attention to something, positive or negative, at that moment you are asking the Universe to bring it into your life.  The more energy, the more emotion behind the thoughts – positive or negative doesn’t matter – the more you are telling the Universe you want it.

Are you creating with intent or by default? Maybe you continue to attract unwanted relationships, hardship in your work or with your boss or employees, or within your family. I think everyone can, at one time or another, admit to an unwanted experience or relationship. Perhaps some things you have created you may not really want in your life after all is said and done. That is the essence of creating by default. Any repetitive thoughts about unwanted things invite, or ask for, the exact matching experiences.

Every thought I think is attracting its vibrational essence, its match in the physical. Whether I am thinking about wanted things or unwanted things, I am still sending out a “request” to attract more things like the subject of my thought. And all things that happen to me – all people, things, experiences, situations that come to me – come in response to MY thoughts. My thoughts are an invitation to the experiences of my life.

So how are things? Taking an honest, non-judgmental look at your life is a very clear way of understanding what your dominate thoughts are. It never fails. It is law. The state of your life isn’t due to the words or actions, or lack thereof, of another. You created everything in your life. Therefore you can keep on creating or you can un-create. You are the responsible party, so what’s it going to be?

Everything you give your attention to, you request. You are emanating your thought vibrations into the Universe and what the Universe hears it delivers. No exception. You will always get the essence of what you are thinking about, whether you want it or not.

May as well think about what you want. It’s much more fun!

In Love and Light

Becca Niday

www.AMajesticMountainRetreat.com

Voted “BEST in the NW!”

Where Nature meets Luxury and you wrap yourself in Beauty, Magic and Serenity.

I watched “The Wizard of Oz” for the first time, not too long ago. I know . . . When I was little, it freaked me out and I never watched it again. By this time, I had heard and read enough about the different theories as to why it was written, what it means, what the symbolism is . . .  it was interesting to watch it to the end - though I still didn’t like the flying monkeys.

It got me to thinkin’ . . . It’s not as if one day I’ll just look down, and discover that I’m on the yellow brick road, living the life of my dreams. But rather, one day I’ll look back and discover I always have been.

I remember when I was first learning to ride Tilly, my phenomenally beautiful horse, how impossible it seemed. But today, it is impossible to imagine it was ever hard. Like Dorothy and the Yellow Brick Road . . . First she checked it out from the sidelines, then she tried one tentative step, and the next thing we saw, she was skipping down the road.

As I look back to my years with horses, I watch myself beaming with pride over my first solo rides. I am impressed beyond belief with the courage and determination I had as a child; Awakened by the natural talent and ambition to grow in this very intricate sport; Humbled by my willingness to risk a fall – and I did fall, many times.

In seeing all this from who I am today, I see that I was exactly where I most wanted to be. And as I was working and learning with such focus and determination, I knew just how far I wanted to go.

The lesson I learned, and sometimes I have to remind myself of, is this: when I let my positive feelings be the evidence of my progress, then the progress will continue. I didn’t start winning Blue Ribbons right away – but I knew we would. So even though I was making mistakes, and Tilly was learning along with me, as a team we continued to improve and I continued to feel better about my dreams.

The tipping point came when we entered our first show, expecting nothing at all and walking out of the ring with the Blue Ribbon. If I would have looked for the proof of that Blue Ribbon in my first lessons, it would have been nowhere to be found. And I probably would have lost, to some degree, the belief in my dreams.

I think the need to see the immediate evidence of any progress is one of the most significant hindrances there is. When I attempt to take score of my progress too soon, I move further from the results I seek.

There is no dream I imagine that is for any other reason than I believe I will feel better in the having of it. Whether it is a material object, a new home, an improved relationship, a physical state of being—every dream I have is because I want to feel better. Tilly taught me that when I discover the power of success first, by deliberately feeling or visualizing my success, I am actively focusing my mind away from the challenges, struggles, mountains and mole hills, and any other manner of unwanted thing. This, I believe, is the key to allowing the manifestation of all my hopes and dreams and wishes.

Not a day goes by that I don’t think of Tilly. She saved my life in so many ways, and for her love and compassion, I am truly grateful. She taught me that while it is good to have an end to journey towards, it is the journey that matters, in the end.

What do you do when you are up against a wall?

Do you look for another way out? Do you get Angry? Scared? Frustrated? Excited? For me, I think it is a bit of all of the above, though sometimes one more than another. When facing a wall, of my own creation, I have to stop and ask myself – Why is this wall here? Am I headed in the wrong direction? Am I seeing a wall that isn’t really there (that’s always a fun one to answer yes to). Nine times out of ten . . . well probably more like ten times out of ten, I have created this wall because I am resisting life. I am resisting Life.

That moment ALWAYS stops me in my tracks. Can’t distill that much more, I don’t think.  If I truly want to be at peace with my hopes and dreams and wishes, then I have to be at peace with Life. If I want to experience everything I dream of, I can only do so by becoming all the things I dream of inside first. It simply doesn’t work from the outside in. It is impossible – and that is what my walls are showing me.

In other words, if I am resisting Life, I am resisting my hopes and dreams and wishes. But as I release resistant thoughts, as I release the bricks that I used to create the walls, my inner life will rise to a new level and from that new higher level, I WILL create new thoughts, new habits and new beliefs of what is possible.  And then, my friends, I will be living my life as I intended to live it, accessing the Energy that creates worlds and flowing it toward my own hopes and dreams and wishes.

Most people, I have found, rarely align with their true power, because it seems illogical that there is power in relaxation, in letting go, or in love and joy and laughter. We have learned that success comes only through struggle. That we have to “work hard” to get anywhere in life. Perhaps. I suppose that if that is your dominate belief then that is what your life will reflect back to you. I believe that my true power lies in releasing resistance — releasing the bricks that create the walls, that further serve to create more bricks which then create higher walls. Its exhausting just thinking about it! Resistance -  the only obstacle to true power.
 

What if I let go fo the belief that struggle and lack and sacrifice are requirements that must be met before the reward of great abundance can be realized. What if, instead, I expected my path to great abundance to be one of ease and of joy? There are so many things that I have been taught to believe that actually run counter to the ways of the Universe. I think it is time to change. I think I will breathe rather than strain. I will relax rather than exert monstrous efforts. Smile rather than struggle. I think I will be rather than do. I will remember that my true power comes from within.

 . . . and my true power holds the key to all my hopes and dreams and wishes.

SNAP!

Becca Niday

www.AMajesticMountainRetreat.com

Voted “BEST in the NW!”

Where Nature meets Luxury and you wrap yourself in Beauty, Magic and Serenity.

Fall, for me, is always a time of reflection, hibernation and celebrations.

Reflection because, as Richard so lovingly reminded me, “You are almost 50!” Thanks honey

Hibernation because this is our time at Serenity and when here, I tend to take the quiet to heart. I sleep better than anywhere else. I talk less. I read more. I practice the art of fire-making and I relish in all the winter soups and homemade fresh Rosemary Olive bread I love so much.

And celebration for so many reasons. First and foremost I am SO grateful for my life. I am grateful for my husband, who is my constant reminder, every time I look at him, how truly blessed my life is. I am grateful for Serenity, for being able to ‘live’ here while still being able to share it with so many remarkable Guests. I am grateful for my kids – all four of them – and the joy and laughter they bring to my life. Kitty Olympics is fast becoming our favorite part of the day. I am grateful for amazing friends – one of which I am picking up at the airport in 3 hours! And I am grateful that I have lived another glorious year, filled with more twists and turns that I would have imagined – and ALL good!

I have  also found, as the years pass  I am taking more and more pleasure from my inner reality. I find that so many people look at life from the opposite shore.  Most people are saying, “Okay, I want that, and I will not be happy until I get that or experience this.”  Thoughts become things. What I imagine, I create. What I offer to the world through my thoughts and feelings is what the world will deliver to me in return – no exception.

I think that the reason for that promise of manifestation, to begin with, is that it gives me a reason to play the game in the inner reality. It is MY imagination, it is the feeling of Energy flowing through me that is life. Everyday I wake up here I am reminded that the standard of success in life isn’t the things. It isn’t the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that I feel. And if today is any indication – my life is a HUGE success.

And I am truly and deeply grateful for every thing I have created, am creating and will create!