Gratitude Manifests a Great Life!

March 3, 2018 By mariapeth Leave a Comment

Gratitude Manifests a Great Life!

By Maria Gurney Peth PhD

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Perhaps you have had a private session with me or attended one of my classes or a retreat and have heard me say, “What you think today, creates tomorrow and what you emotionally connect to manifests.” The metaphysical – Law of Attraction has proven this statement repeatedly in my life. I am grateful to consistently put to practice one of the most powerful tools each of us has, a focused intentional mind coupled with positive heartfelt emotion.

How is this accomplished you ask? First lasso your mind, get a grip on your thought patterns, then catch yourself and put an immediate STOP to repetitive ungrateful thoughts. Cancel the nagging pessimistic buggers and begin to completely rewrite them. Change, “I am never going to lose this weight”, to a positive affirmation such as: “I am eating healthy, I am taking care of myself, I can and will release this unwanted weight from my waist.”

Begin and maintain a gratitude journal. Just jotting three to five things, people or events you are grateful for each day can make a world of difference for your emotional, physical and spiritual well being.

A study published in 2003, in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, highlights – Participants who kept weekly gratitude journals: were more optimistic about the coming week, felt better about their lives and reported fewer physical concerns, as compared to those who recorded making a list of problems, and issues in their lives. This same study explained that an attitude of gratitude was shown to foster optimism, participants reported less stress, and greater personal confidence.

Gratitude is a beautiful partner of happiness and this pair can support you in manifesting greatness in your life. A wee bit of good goes a long way my friend.

Classes and Upcoming Events:

March 7^th – Living a Course in Miracles 6:30 -8:00 pm (More information at link)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-a-course-in-miracles-lessons-w-maria-tickets-43796580752

April 5^th at 8:30 am Maria will be speaking at Beyond Rubies at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids! https://www.kirkwood.edu/rubies

April 20/21/22 – 13^th Annual Angel Retreat! (More information at link below)

https://13angelretreat.eventbrite.com Tickets are going fast!

Three Keys, to a Fresh Start for 2018!

January 15, 2018 By mariapeth Leave a Comment

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Three Keys, to a Fresh Start for 2018!

Happy New Year Angelic Friends!

Welcome to everyone who has subscribed recently to my newsletters, and a warm hello to everyone who has been following my blog for a while.

I pray you had a wonderful Holiday, took time to enjoy family and friends and to reflect on the passing year. Have you thought about what you want this new year to bring for you? What is your top priority?

In today’s blog, I offer three tips to a fresh start. Sometimes we have a tendency to repeat our old habits and then get frustrated with the same old results instead of being intentional about moving in a new direction and overcoming obstacles to your dreams and desires.

#1 Create a foundation of nurturing personal care, blended with self compassion. Our inner life, our emotions, our center of being, reflects in our outer life. When we focus on making positive “inner” shifts, we naturally influence our daily lives and those around us. A peaceful mind is equal to being and feeling loving, no matter who or what attempts to threaten that peace.

What is the top priority for yourself this year? Start where you can most benefit, placing self care and personal development as a central theme. Are you guided to work on: improving relationships, expanding your faith, creating more success in work/career, indulging in extreme self-care, centering your soul for more wisdom and inner peace, healing your body or your emotions, or opening your heart to new or renewed love?

Whatever your priority, personal care and quiet reflection nurtures your focus. Dedicate time and precious energy toward a mindful practice, such as: meditation, enjoy nature walks, engage in dance and movement, seek out gentle yoga or attempt some challenge poses to awaken new strength and flexibility, plan a personal retreat or join a group retreat, practice centered breath, or simply hold a prayerful intention to raise your consciousness and vibrational frequency.

The benefits of quiet reflective time spent with the Holy Spirit, will bloom and you will cultivate a garden of inner wisdom to support and sustain your: mind, body, heart and soul.

Recently I discovered “Focus -Concentration Music for Study and Relaxation.” I play it for background music when writing, working or meditating.

Speaking of reflective and engaging practice for personal growth, beginning February 7th, I will be offering a class/study group for those interested in the foundational spiritual concepts from A Course in Miracles! The class will run all year long! I hope you will join us. Some of the happiest people I know are students of ACIM (A Course in Miracles).

Follow this link for more information…https://acim2.eventbrite.com

#2 Shift your limiting beliefs! We all have nagging moments of self doubt. Silly ideas such as, “I’m not good enough”, “I’ve failed”, “They don’t like me.”, these silly thoughts seem to persist in the background of our insecure mind. In order to break free from the chains of self sabotage, we must address and transmute our useless old negative beliefs. One of my favorite strategies for shifting toward positivity is outlined the ACIM. The forgiveness sequence in Lesson 63, the course teaches,
“It is your forgiveness that will bring the world of darkness to the light.”

In my work as a life and soul coach, I have witnessed sustainable life changing transformation using industry tested effective strategies to support a shift in mindset away from sabotage and limiting core beliefs.

Students of my Transformation Therapy Training (TTT) class this past summer studied ten power strategies for overcoming some of life’s biggest hurdles. When we identify with universal principles of peace, and compassion, we are igniting a catalyst for change and creating a new inner dictation, this indeed is empowering personal work.

It takes time to transmute our old habits and negative self talk. Even the strongest among us will find we return to old ways of thinking and doing from time to time. When this happens, be gentle with yourself. Being aware that you are repeating a defeating pattern is a great premise for change.

Awareness is a powerful building block to change! Call it a moment of impact, and gently ease into your new mindset. A mantra of positive affirmations can do a world of good, supporting new pathways of being and thinking.

Join me in March for Transformation Therapy Training

here is the link for more info TTT
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transformation-therapy-training-spring-2018-tickets-42170506119

#3 Plan some time to play and to create. We humans are by nature creative beings. All too often we get bogged down with tasks, demands, and expectations. When we reflect on the day, we find we have simply been checking off a “To-Do” list as opposed to living and enjoying our day. Change up your day, week, or month and sign up for a new class (dance, art, soul, music, instrument, or craft), start a fun a project or perhaps just turn up the music in your home creating your own new dance, it will open your energy to the joy and the freedom of letting yourself flow.

Classes coming soon:

Mediumship Training and Development -more information at link
:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mediumship-training-and-development-tickets-42149538404

Reiki Level 1 & 2 Degree healing -more information at link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reiki-class-level-1-and-level-ii-degree-tickets-42176714689T

Mindful Tools for Better Health

November 15, 2017 By mariapeth Leave a Comment

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What has triggered your feelings of anxiousness and worry? Naturally caring and sensitive people experiencing the turbulent world around them, find themselves in overwhelm, overthinking, sensing tightness in your stomach, heart and/or experiencing a shortness of breath. Over the long term, repeated episode like these begin to re-wire our brain and thus negatively impacting our health.

Anxiety has reportedly affected over 40 million Americans a year. As daily responsibilities and expectations mount, modern man has found a way to better cope with trying times and unwanted pressure. Mindful practice and techniques are the sounding board to regaining a peaceful outlook on life and the best methods of retraining your brain toward positive life long benefits.

Three Mindfulness Steps:

The moment you begin to feel anxious, breathe in deeply and breathe out deeply for several minutes. Move away from chaos and breathe.
Observe your thoughts in a nonjudgmental way. Simply observe, do not engage, rather observe and detach, similar to the way we watch a television program. We are not part of the show, simply observing the show.
Gently shift your focus from fear, to simply being aware of your breath, become more present and realize in the present moment you are SAFE. Begin to quietly affirm: “I am calm”, “I am peaceful”, “I am safe”.

Join Maria this December for: Mindful Monday’s with Maria -December 4th, 11th & 18th. Space in limited. See link to register: Mindful Monday’s with Maria

Believe in Miracles

October 3, 2017 By mariapeth Leave a Comment

In a few days I will be fulfilling one of my life dreams! Maria’s Wisdom Retreat in Maui! I am facilitating this life empowering retreat for wonderful, courageous and soulful people who like me, have heard the calling to live in their “joy” and create miracles in their lives.
The road which brought me to this moment, is paved with deliberate intention and spiritual practice. Most of my early life was rather conventional: typical high school, then college student, marriage, then two children, all while balancing a career, family and personal ambitions. A life of blindly following the expected social norms. I have no complaints, I love my life, yet I firmly believe all of life’s experiences are great teaching and learning tools in the curriculum of spiritual growth.

On a sunny day roughly 20 years ago, I began to wake up to a new reality. A book that had been sitting on my mother’s shelf leaped into my hands and as I read, I escaped into its deep and meaningful rhythm. This quote captured my heart and mind:

“Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.” ACIM

This is how A Course in Miracles, begins, it makes a clear and foundational distinction between the “real” and the “unreal” and between knowledge and perception. I was at a place in my life where I could use the peace of God. I fumbled through the book, seeking this miracle, a promise of inner peace. Through its lessons, I began to accept and allow the “real” me to shine. Three books in one, it is lofty and not made for a casual read. However it spoke to my heart and I have to this date reviewed its works three separate times, in three separate yearly studies.

The lessons in A Course in Miracles, have for me, become life practice. As I reflect on each passage and apply the “practice” I am genuinely and mindfully uniting with team “Holy Spirit”, calling into my life the benefits of: Joy, Forgiveness, Healing, Love, and Holiness.

Over the years my true consciousness has bloomed through the darkness of mundane life and I now see with new eyes, another way to live and be in this world. Finally, I feel the courage to share my spiritual gifts with the world. I have claimed: my profound intuition, and clear connection with the angels as a integral path in my life. I have stepped into my role as a “Spiritual teacher and Soul coach” and I support many others on their own journey to the “real” being of whom they are meant to express in their lives. All due to courageously owning my true authentic self. With ambition I began sharing what I love and who I am with the world. As we fast forward to the present time, I am so excited once again step into a dream come true, just as I have co-created with specific intention and God’s loving guidance.

Everyday, is a day of reaching goals and manifesting dreams. I have learned to simply hold my desires in my consciousness as my truth. Something I learned through the many lessons of life and practice of mindful intention. Join me on a journey of enlightenment as I teach lessons from A Course In Miracles in November A Course in Miracles

class information at this link. A Course in Miracles coming this November 1st, 2017.

I believe: “What you think today, creates tomorrow, and what we feel on an emotional level, begins to manifest.” Self awareness and good intentions are the seeds to powerful life changes.

Join me, Maria for the 13th Annual Angel Retreat- Iowa, this coming April 2018. Click the link below for more information and to register. Attend one, two or all three days!

https://annualangelretreat.eventbrite.com

Connect with Maria at www.MariaPeth.com

Offering, Guidance for our life and wisdom for your soul.