Hey.  Just a quick heads up.

I just wanted to let you all know that yes, I do still plan on putting a good deal of focus into IWannaGetFREE, but that I started with some introductory posts on Boundless Abundance Lifestyles to kinda start bringing folks together around the ideas of a brighter world.

I believe that we will be able to heal our world by freeing ourselves and healing our individual lives.  I believe that healing the world starts with each person taking care of their spirit, soul and mind, and breaking forth from limitation and the chains that bind us, as well as those that separate us from others in our immediate worlds (home, work, school, etc…)

I think it starts with knowing and understanding universal laws, God and ourselves better.  I believe it will come from mastering ourselves and our relationships with each other on a local level.

This is the purpose of I Wanna Get Free, to liberate mankind to live more empowered, harmonious lives.

All the rest should follow.  It should spread.

As Boundless Abundance is the “community forum” so to speak, I thought it appropriate to begin with some introductory posts there - 1. to introduce the concept and 2. to provide an opportunity for folks to come together around some of these ideas and interact with others who are interested in bettering our lives and our world.

(Fooled ya, didn’t I?  From my last post, I betcha thought I’d have posted here already by now.)

Just kidding. I assure you it wasn’t on purpose.  I’ve got so many ideas and abstract thoughts flying around in my head at one time, I have to take a lot of time to ground them and put them in some logical order that people will understand.

As I’ve said before, I’m just never sure where I’ll be posting next.  One thing that might help keep track of my posts would be to subscribe to my New With Me feed over at MyBlogLog.  It will tell when I post to any of the blogs.

Enjoy your day/evening.  

Hasta luego,

SpiritFREE1^SM

If you’re used to reading RSS feeds, then like a lot of people (myself included) you probably enjoy the luxury of full feeds. With that in mind, I thought it appropriate to write this post to clarify as I do care about your preferences.

A couple of weeks ago, I changed the IWannaGetFree feed from full to partial. This was done with the IWannaGetFree community in mind. Since then, I got to thinking that it would probably be nice to keep you in the loop, and give you guys a bit of an understanding of why.

People learn and are motivated in various ways. Some folks are very visual. It has been said that “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

Others are more auditory. But whether a person is particularly auditory or not, it is said that “music soothes the savage soul.”

Motivation often comes through feelings.

Auditory and visual stimuli play a great part in stimulating learning, emotion and motivation for all people.

In order to reach a goal, we need to be able to see (or visualize) ourselves doing so. We need to believe that it can happen for us. We need to feel the motivation to make it happen. We need to hear the vision calling to us from within. We need to feel what we think it will feel like when the goal is finally achieved. Sometimes a picture can be a thousand words when it comes to getting into that feeling… or even simply inspiring hope enough to desire the goal enough to move toward it.

I Wanna Get Free - Heal Your Life is written with the purpose of helping inspire and heal people, families, communities, etc… For this reason, the IWannaGetFree web site layout was designed to provide audiovisual effects that inspire, encourage and motivate. It features images, soundbytes and text that speak of hope, freedom, ability and victory.

As discussed in Everything Begins in Mind, our energy creates the life we manifest around us. Our energy is filled with what we look at, pay attention to, and think about. Garbage in, garbage out. Good stuff in, good stuff out. Our lives become whatever we allow to pass through us and live in us.

This would include all that lives in our hearts and minds. This would include everything that we allow to enter through all the gates of our being. Our eye gates, our ear gates, our nose gates (the air we breathe and how we take it in) and our mouth gate (our food for our physical health and particularly our speech for the course of our lives).

What we give our attention to will increase in our lives.  For this reason, this site showcases instrumental books for the mind to feast on. It features positive images and posters for the eyes in order to raise the energy of the thoughts and to inspire.

I’m not sure where it originated, but a wise man I know says that “Repetition is the mother of learning.” Positive imagery, inspiration, and every good thing when repeated, builds and builds, filling one’s energy and choking out the lesser, more depressing energies and thoughts.

Thus repeated visits to the site should not only afford more opportunities to build oneself up and focus on knowing oneself and the light within, but it should also make IWGF feel more like a sort of home, an oasis of peace and guidance, a haven, a beacon of light, a place where people who want to see a better world come… which is what I hope these sites become.

For the ears, the IWGF site includes links to inspirational mp3 music clips, many of which I play regularly on my Zen MicroPhoto player as a meditation. The joy and sense of visionary hope inspired by many of these songs can be transformational.  They are very motivational, especially in weaker moments.  If these songs don’t do it for you, find yourself others that do (and drop me a note about them on the Contact Form - I might include them.)

I already had some of these songs on my player, but before I recently downloaded a lot more of them, I cannot tell you how much of a mood and energy lift I got from just playing the music on the Peace, Inspiration & Wisdom page while I was putting up the site. You can enjoy a continuous flow of inspirational music there.

There is also calming, relaxing instrumental music that soothes the mind and body using the musical scales, and some using subliminal suggestion. I have some of these at home and enjoy using them during my prayer and meditation time. They foster an atmosphere of serenity, relaxation and balanced centeredness.

In the spirit of community, there’s also the Recent Readers widget on the bottom of the left sidebar, so that people can see and catch up with others who may have similar interests.

The front Freedom page and other top menu pages tell a bit about of our vision and philosophy.  Since IWGF has little or no commenting, everyone would miss out on a significant portion of the “IWannaGetFree experience” if they merely scanned the feeds.

Hence the partial feed.

Thanks for understanding.

I hope you enjoy the site. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to drop me a note via the Contact Form.

Peace & Hope,

SpiritFREE1^SM

Well, our Boundless Abundance Lifestyles community home is now furnished and functional (well, the basics anyway). So feel free to take a look around. Don’t forget to check out our BAL Community Page. If you like it, join the community. Give a shout. Say “what’s up”. Maybe visit other readers’ and community members’ MyBlogLog profiles while you’re there.

So now that the infrastructure is more or less in place, I’m back to writing. Thanks for your patience.

To begin, I’ll primarily be writing for IWannaGetFree. IWannaGetFree will form the foundation of this work. From time to time you will also see posts for comment on Boundless Abundance Lifestyles, Boundless Love and Ever-Present Abundance.

Welcome,

SpiritFREE1^SM

Planning, building, formatting, tweaking and more building.
…That’s what I’ve been up to.

I hope everyone is well. Just a quick note to let you all know I haven’t “abandoned my blog”. I realize there are a lot of abandoned blogs out there. This isn’t one of them.

I’ve been feeling a little guilty (if you could call it that) about my long silence. You know - like people visited my blog, joined my community and some subscribed to the feeds, and after yet another month, where in the world is she? If you missed me, I apologize.

I’m not lost. I’ve just been busy creating a comfy “home” for us (on top of a couple more blogs). I guess you could say I’m still in a setup phase. I’m not quite done with any of them yet, so forgive the mess and bare walls. It’s not exactly ready for entertaining, but I’m doing it all live so you’re welcome to watch the painting, installations and furnishing if you want. (Of course you might just want to wait until at least the menu pages and subpages have been set up and populated and read it all at one time.) Just keeping you in the loop. I want you all to feel a part of this… and also to know that we will continue what we’ve started.

With the home site, Boundless Abundance Lifestyles and my other blogs, we’ll all be able to have greater interaction. That’s important to me.

While I am hoping to invest the bulk of my efforts planning and writing for IWannaGetFree, the other blogs, Boundless Love - Power of Love and Boundless Abundance - Ever-Present Abundance are also related to our IWannaGetFree theme and vision. More importantly, the themes of these blogs lend themselves more easily to commenting. More detail on these sites can be found at SpiritFREE1 Updates. Boundless Abundance Lifestyles will be able to bring all of these blogs and their people together as a little “family”.

Since I don’t know where I’ll be posting from one moment to the next, Boundless Abundance Lifestyles will be a central reference point for all the sites with feeds and updates, and a community area for our combined community.

Of course, there’s no information of value in there right now, but if you think you like the concepts of the blogs, you might just want to join the Boundless Abundance Lifestyles community and subscribe to feed updates by e-mail (and the other communities as well if you’re so inclined).

I’d recommend joining the community as well as using feed updates because while some updates will be posted on the site in What’s New, others may be sent only to community members by broadcast.

Anyway, just wanted to touch base. Thank you for your patience. I’m glad you’re here.

Sending you smiles from the Lost & Found,

SpiritFREE1^SM

Do you read backwards?

With most blogs, unless the blog owner changes it, ‘next’ or “>>” moves to the next post in the past while ‘previous’ or “<<” moves back toward the future.

Kinda counterintuitive… until you get used to the idea that since it is a blog, you probably started from the most recent post… so then the ‘next’ one would be the ‘next’ most recent.

For most blogs, if they are daily-or-so “web logs,” I suppose that works… in a “bloggish” sort of way.

This blog, however, is a bit different. It is not a log of current events and ideas as they occur to me based on what’s happening this week. While there will be some of that here as well, the overall picture is that this is primarily a progressively reasoned piece of work. (At least that is how it is starting out.) One thought builds on previous thoughts.

Therefore this blog was meant to be read “backwards” … or, to be more clear, this blog is meant to be read from the beginning. The rationale for this is covered in more depth here, in Getting the Most from This Site.

So just a heads up:

The ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ arrows on this particular blog have been rearranged to make offline, real-time sense. Previous moves towards the past in real time, and Next moves towards the future.  You can start with the earliest post, and keep clicking the ‘Next’ arrows to move toward the most recent post.

Now that we’ve got that sorted out…

If you want to start from the beginning, or to pick up where you left off, visit our Archives, and guess what? Start from the BOTTOM, LOL. Kinda backwards, huh?

Happy reading!

Cheers,

SpiritFREE1^SM

Whew! Well, it sure is good to be back. Thank you for being patient.

Had a bunch of web hosting challenges from 6/1 through 6/11. Naturally, I spent the 12th on my “business resilience plan” lol.

To give you a bit of an idea:

First the server for my shared-IP hosting went down and I did not know why.

Having the feeds interrupted and knowing people had no idea where we were was very disconcerting.

Then I had challenges finding a suitable dedicated-IP host. This took a few days.

Then we had challenges getting the site back up and working properly. For a couple of days, it was working on the front end, but not the admin section.

Then I couldn’t access my domain, although the rest of the world could see it. I cannot tell you how frustrating it was. Had run antivirus and spyware detection, and still nothing. Had contacted my ISP to examine my network, and still nothing.

Then all of a sudden, I could access it.

Then I could not access it again.

Then I could access it again.

Imagine the confusion … not to mention, frustration. (Interestingly enough, when I ceased to be bothered about it, that was when things came together.)

So…

After multiple helpdesk tickets, the troubleshooting efforts with at least six people, and PLEASE let’s not forget prayer/meditation and keeping a calm head, I think we’re okay now.

And boy, am I glad to be back! I’m very thankful, indeed.

Stay in the Loop

If anything ever goes wrong and you cannot find this site, please visit my home site, Boundless Abundance (once I have it up) or my wordpress.com site SpiritFREE1. In the event of such situations, I will post updates at least one of these places until such time as we’re back up and running.

Another idea would be to join my MyBlogLog community, so I can keep you posted should anything like this happen.

Thanks for being here,

SpiritFREE1^SM