YOU Seminars

January the month of joyous possibilities

Corinne Ropp — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:18:23 +0000

January is the month of possibilities. A New Year, a new decade, full of wonder and delight as we think about what is possible in the upcoming year.

So what is possible? We all will respond with anything is possible because that is is what we really want to believe and yet there is a part of me that says for someone else, everything else is possible.

As I get older I stop to think about what I want to create and this year in particular I think about the vision I am creating and that I want to leave.

What is your vision? Not just for this year but for your life. This week take a few moments to write down what you want people to say about you when you are no longer here. This week write down a few things you will accomplish this year to bring that vision to fruition. And then let it go.

The Universe will provide the necessary ingredients for you to show up in your life if you believe that it is possible. The people, the events, the challenges, the triumphs will all show up as they are meant to.

Everything happens for a reason. If you believe that for the positive things in your life you must believe it for the challenges as well. You will live your life. Your choices are simple, to live in joyously or to live in misery.

Choose the joyous life.

In love and light

Corinne Ropp
www.youseminars.com

Be the friend you want to have…

Corinne Ropp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:10:08 +0000

This week my grandmother passed away. She was one of those women that I respected, loved, and above all trusted.
She was there when push came to shove, when things were hard and when things were easy.
She was my friend and my confidante.
I can remember the day I met her for you see she was my “adopted” grandmother. She was the maternal grandmother of my best friend in school. From baseball games to sleepovers it was fun to be had when we were with her.
During our teenage years she always had coffee on since she lived four houses away from the school it was an easy getaway. The confidential table where we could talk about anything that was not illegal held many stories that the teenage heart could only tell.
She was the stage manager for many musical productions in the high school, loving it as she guided many teenagers to prove their merit in the theater.
Grandma Lynne was an incredible lady with spunk, never shy to let you know what she really thought.
When I became a young single mother she quick to support and to to give advice, but also was there to guide. I wish I had the ring she gave me to put on my left hand to ward off the people who did not need to know that I was not married.
On my wedding day she was there. When the children were born she was there. When my family went through traumatic times she was there. When I needed a drinking buddy she was there and when I gave it up she was there to support.
Thinking about her life, she was always there. I cannot say that for my own family. I chose her to be grandmother to me and she filled the role beautifully.
As I reflect on her life, I am grateful that she was in my life. I am grateful that she was there. The lesson for me is that she showed me how to be a great friend. There is no better gift than to be known as being there as a friend.

You can overcome…with grace

Corinne Ropp — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:11:57 +0000

Starting Over: A Journey of Loss and Recovery
Margaret Sarkissian
Recovering from this loss took a full year. I plunged into a deep depression, feeling that I had lost my identity, my path, my future. Yet in the back of my mind I also knew that I had made the right decision, the only decision, when I refused my previous employer’s offer of another job. Somehow I knew I was meant to leave the organization and comfortable career, in order to pursue the work I had always longed to do – writing, coaching, teaching, and healing.

My family, close friends and health care team helped me immeasurably, and carried me through some of the darkest times. With their support, I was able to say “yes” to the loss, “yes” to the unknown, and “yes” to Spirit. In return, I felt the hand of the Universe holding me, guiding me back to my true self – the self that I had put on hold for so many years. Although I did not know how I could start over at my age, I trusted that I could, and would, and that somehow, although I could not see it, my future was shaping itself as I healed. Throughout all this the Universe miraculously kept bringing me money whenever I most needed it.

Gradually, I rebuilt my life, inviting in only those elements that passed my new truth test: Is this heart-based work? And only if the answer were positive did I say “yes.” So, now I am coaching again, and facilitating a course on living joyfully, based on the book, “The Joy of Appreciative Living,” by Jacqueline Kelm. I am co-teaching a coaching skills workshop with a former colleague back at my old organization, and am writing a book on building healthy workplaces. I am learning advanced techniques in alternative healing, building that practice, and am birthing new ideas and opportunities for heart-based work all the time.

I awake each morning with a sense of peace. I make my daily gratitude list, especially appreciating the time and freedom that I now have to do what I always dreamed of. I view my former director as a catalyst for my life-giving transformation, freeing me from work I had outgrown and an unhappy environment that was deadening my soul. The perfect storm that appeared to be demolishing my life was, in fact, a gift from the Universe that has led me to the most creative and meaningful work of my entire life.

From Overcomers, Inc.; True Stories of Hope, Courage and Inspiration. To get your own copy and receive dozens of bonus gifts go to http://www.overcomersbook.com/booklaunch

Distractions in life come to bite you in the ……..

Corinne Ropp — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:39:04 +0000

Distractions in life come as ways to understand the past and to support the moment. N o matter how much work I do on myself andhow much I support others, I am still on a journey in this life to understand and to learn what I came to learn here.

Over the past few months my company has been growing in leaps and bounds. Noticing that I also realized that I had been having a few issues creep in from the past that this was affecting me more than I was letting on and more than I thought

It had to do with injustices in my life or what I perceived as injustices. The should haves or could haves in my life. The events where things did not work out the way I thought they should. The people in my life who had taken advantage of my nature and how they should not have done that.

A few years ago I worked for a company, giving a lot of my heart and soul into the company. I believed in the ideals and the beliefs of the company and the people who ran it however I never felt like I was appreciated. In the end I left the position knowing that had learned a lot and that there was something much better for me to do than make someone else a lot of money and not be appreciated.

As I look back now, I realize I was holding onto the anger of feeling like I was not good enough to be appreciated by them or by any person that was in my life. That was the distraction in my life. As long as I held onto that belief I would jeopardize my NOW. I knew it and was not sure what to do about it.

I kept asking where was this coming from. This morning the answer came very clear. I was holding on to the injustice of an event that occurred to me as a small child.I was not upset with the company, the people, or any of the events in my life. Those events were there to show me how to release the first event. I was really upset at the fact that I could not accept what is.

I was using the should have been different in my life to be the distraction to my success and was not even realizing it. I was using the past events Awareness is key. After completing a meditation I felt better. I was able to understand where this distractionwas coming from and to finally let it go.

I am excited about the up and coming days.

Blast into your spiritual reality

Corinne Ropp — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:12:26 +0000

As I go through life I realize that there a few sure certainties about it.

One I am not certain about anything. Life will change on a dime and I get to choose how I am going to respond. I get to do things as a human being that a spiritual being cannot do and that is learn in the physical realm

Two, this life is very short. If you have people you do not like in this life, imagine what eternity will be like. In this vibration, we have those thoughts of dislike and intolerance and judgement. On the other side you do not. That is the beauty of being human. Most of us forget that or choose to just ignore the fact that there is more to you than this life. Overcoming the issues is part of life.

Three, I take myself way too seriously. Easy to say for those who’s husbands have not lost their job or their parents are going through health concerns or for our sisters across the water who’s children are starving. In the end learning to laugh a little eases the stress of it all.

Four, give a hand out and up. We are really stuck on the semantics. If we all cared enough to give a little to someone else perhaps we would have a better world. I hear people talk how they want to give a hand up not a handout. If I was starving, I would hope that there was someone who had a crumb to help me out.

Five,believe in you and know that this too shall pass. Your life was not meant to be comfortable. You are spiritual being with a life to live so live it. Enjoy the journey, enjoy the struggles, enjoy the triumphs and the defeat.

Corinne Ropp is a spiritual teacher with her Masters Degree in Science. Looking for a way to have science to prove the spiritual is a lifelong endeavour. Check out the website at www.youseminars.com for information on classes that are up and coming.

Persistence is the Key to Success

Corinne Ropp — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:26:46 +0000

Keeping on keeping on with persistence is the key to success in life. We all get hung up on obstacles and concerns that coudl stop us however when the obstacles get high that is when the mettle of a person shines through.

Whatever you do do it well, do it often, and keep smiling.