Letter from The Editor

Autumn has finally arrived, even here in So. California.  The days have cooled off and there is a crispness to the air.  I spent Halloween weekend at my parent’s in So. Utah and was able to see some fall leaves.  By the time I go back there for Thanksgiving they will all be gone.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner.  In our gathering with our families take a few moments to recognize and express your gratitude for them.  Living In Thrival includes thriving in our relationships and with our family.  Are your family and friend relationships thriving?  Or are they surviving?  Do you take the time to nurture them and make sure they are abundant? 

We get so busy in our daily lives, we sometimes forget that our relationships need to be nurtured and attention paid to them for them to thrive.  This past year I learned this with one of my friends.  Although we were quite close,  we hardly saw or talked to each other.  We’d say, “We should get together” and never did.  Finally, we made an appointment to meet at a certain time and place.  And we kept that appointment for several months.  We’d meet up and spend an hour or so catching up and chatting.  Our friendship grew deeper.  It began to thrive again.  This fall she moved to the east coast and I miss our weekly get togethers.  I now have the choice of letting our friendship deteriorate, back into survival, due to lack of attention, or I can make the effort to stay in contact with her.  She is after all, only a phone call away.

Friendships and relationships take effort to maintain and to grow.  What are you doing to cultivate your relationships so they are flourishing and thriving?  I invite you to take time out of your busy schedule this month to call one friend you haven’t talked to in awhile.  Reconnect with them.  Cherish and be in gratitude for their friendship. 

Sincerely,

Tora Moon

A State of Being

The keystone of “Living in Thrival” is that it is a state of Being, not just a state of having.  Thrival is a state of mind, a Beingness, which then creates a state of existence.  I think and believe I am thriving; and therefore, I thrive.  As Thrival begins to be our predominate state of mind, it becomes our way of living.  Living in Thrival is a new paradigm for living and being in this world.  The new age that is dawning is beckoning us to live this way and to remember that Thrival is our birthright and our natural state of being.  As a state of Being, it is a holistic and balanced view of life.  All areas and aspects of our life are important, not just money or jobs, equally important to thriving are:

§       Our relationships and friendships

§       Our creativity

§       Our physical bodies and health

§       Our connection to Spirit

§       Our fun

As I’ve talked to people, I’ve found the predominate belief of what thriving means is that it is prosperity, and specifically money.  Money, and the possessions and things money buys, is in the forefront of almost everyone’s mind.  How do I make more?  Do I have enough?  Jerry over there has more than I do, so I must not be doing very well.  But there is so much more to thriving, and Thrival, than money and possessions.  It is only one aspect of the whole picture. 

Will you make more money when you’re living in Thrival?  Possibly.  It depends on what your individual relationship and belief is to money and work and what you desire.  I have a friend who doesn’t put much importance on having a lot of money or the dream job.  She just wants to have enough to cover her needs and hobbies.  Because that’s what she desires and she has it in her life, she’s in Thrival.  As another example, having a large bank account does not make you thriving if your health is poor.  I’m all for having a good sum of money in my bank account, but I also want to be thriving in all areas of my life.  I’ve had the good job that made good money and definitely wasn’t thriving.  The rest of my life was in shambles – or non-existent. 

The material “things”, the having, flows from our Being in Thrival and when we’re in that state of being, we can enjoy our “things”, our “toys” (one of my favorite type of toys is percussion instruments), our homes, our cars, etc. much more.

When we learn to BE in Thrival on the inside, following the Law of Attraction, it will spread to the manifestation of Thrival on the physical and material plane.

Excerpt from the book, "Living In Thrival:  Moving From Just Surviving to Thriving."
(c) 2009, Tora Moon, all rights reserved.

Meditation - Inner Being

Meditating is a valuable tool to help us move into Thrival.  However, many people have a difficult time quieting their minds and so give up on meditating.  The method I use engages the mind and incorporates visioning, feeling, alignment of energy, affirmations, and the power of sound.  In this method, I include using Mudras, which are hand gestures to create and align with the energy of what I’m focusing on.  I also use Mantras, which are prayerful chants, specifically ancient Sanskrit chants.  Each month I will share with you a mudra and mantra set for you to try.  If you want to experience them more, they are included on my forthcoming CD “Transformational Prayers”, which includes a booklet with full-color pictures of the mudra and the mantra.  The music of the mantras is beautiful, full of interesting instruments and percussion.  Each piece is different.

To pre-order your CD click here. 

If you’d like to learn the full method of meditation that I use and experience the power of group meditation and chanting, I hold a weekly meditation class in Costa Mesa, CA. 

Inner Being

We have both within us and as part of us an aspect that is always connected to the Divine and knows what is in our best and highest good.  This aspect is our Inner Being, or Higher Self, or even our Soul.  To connect with and commune with our Inner Being we must go into our “yin” or receptive, feminine side of ourselves.  We cannot connect to It through our “yang” or active, masculine side.  By stopping our activities for a few moments for quiet contemplation puts us in that receptive state to receive the messages and guidance that we need from our Inner Beings.  This mudra-mantra set helps us to be in that receptive state. 

Mudra:

Curl your thumbs to the inside of your palm, touching the fleshy mound below the little finger.  Extend the rest of the fingers.  Put your hands together so the right thumb sits on top of the left and the bottoms of the hands are touching.  Lift your hands to your solar plexus, with the fingers extended away from you.

The hands form a cave or womb, in which the thumbs, representing our logical ego selves has gone into.  This is symbolic of dropping our egos to go deep inside of ourselves to connect with our Inner Being which resides in our center.

Mantra:  Ek Ong Kar Sat Nam Siri Wahe Guru

(EHK ONG KAR SAAT NAHM SEE-REE WHA-HEY GOO-ROO)

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There is one who has created this creation.  Truth is Its name.  It is so great we cannot describe Its infinite wisdom.

Individual Words Mean:

EK = One

ONG = Creator

KAR = Creation

SAT = Truth

NAM = Name

SIRI = Great

WAHE = Beyond description (Wow!)

GURU = Dispeller of darkness

This mantra invokes the great teachers (gurus) of the world.  However, it also reminds us that the great dispeller of darkness is the Creator who lies within our hearts.  We are our greatest teachers.  We learn from our experiences and from the contemplation of them.  This mantra reminds us to connect to the teacher within, our Inner Beings.

Sample Affirmations:

I connect easily whenever I need to with my Inner Being, my Higher Consciousness.

The answers I seek are within me.

My Inner Being is always connected to the Divine; and therefore, so am I.

My Inner Being always knows what is in my best and highest good and brings that to me.