How to Activate Your Lucky Charm!

The Sweet Science and Art of Luck

In my last blog, I introduced The Triple L's, Love, Luck and Laughter. I focused on the element of Love. Today, I want to discuss Luck and look at how each and every one of us can become an awareness architect of constructive change and create a charmed life.

The study of something that interests us, like physics ("everything is connected") is called a Science. The practice or application of that interest is known as the Art. Scientific documentation from Dr. Richard Wiseman, author of The Luck Factor reveals that "Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives. He adds, "...being in the right place at the right time is actually all about being in the right state of mind." (in picture Anne Merrem us & Robbie @BeautyofWisdom)

By placing your attention on gratitude, what you are grateful for, the positivity will naturally outweigh any negativity, no matter what the day dishes out. This is because the right state of mind is naturally geared toward being positive or happy-calm. The first step in activating your lucky charm is believing in a favorable outcome. As you will see with my daughter Grace, by being prepared she ignited a brilliant performance.

I am delighted to briefly share a living example of this very idea and how it worked with Grace. In this short video clip from a luncheon we spoke at on April 28, 2011, Grace talks about getting into her FunZen zone and the Luck Factor. (in picture, us, awesome Wendy Winks) She shares her successful steps of how preparation met opportunity while preparing for a recent voice-over job; the iconic role of Lucy in the brand new Peanuts movie, Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown.

It's one thing to talk about activating your personal lucky charm. It's another thing to offer you the know-how and life skills to empower you to become lucky and reach for inter-active mastery.

"When the student is ready, the teacher appears." Zen saying

When I wrote Mental Fitness in the mid-nineties, my intent was to cultivate the innovative idea of turning our knowledge into action. Turning what we know into what we actually do is the activation of our will; the power of personal choice.

American Buddhist nun, Pema Chodrun, in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa, eloquently reminds us that "This Moment is the Perfect Teacher." With Mental Fitness, we prepare ourselves to access our spiritual zone where every moment offers an opportunity for us to make, or as we like to say at The FunZen Bakery, bake our own luck. Afterall, using our head and following our hearts compass to live a charmed life successfully is, at it's root, a spiritual matter. We're here to encourage and inspire you with insights to wear your invisible toolbelt from your tool box. You make your own choices.

Living in the 21st Century, the intention of being mindful in this moment is more relevant than ever. We cultivate the miracle of mindfulness by paying attention, non judgmentally, to the present moment instead of obsessing over the past or worrying about the future. Studies show that luckiness is the result of being positively present and expecting a miracle. The living art of devotion is affirmed when we remember that a miracle is a mental shift from fear to love (pure positive energy). Fear deactivates your luck and pushes away what you want. Love attracts and draws in what you want, making you a miracle magnet.

"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."
Oprah Winfrey

The four-leaf clover is an uncommon variation of the common, three-leafed clover. It is said that such leaves bring good luck to their finders, especially if found accidentally. According to legend, each leaf represents something different. The first is for faith. The second is for hope. The third is for love. And, the fourth is for luck.

Our power to attract and boost good fortune is more about choice than chance. Let's glance at the four-leaf clover and look at one leaf at a time. I've infused each leaf with an inspirational quote to inspire and prepare you to activate Living Under Correct Knowledge. I encourage you to find your own inspiring quotes and sayings and use this centering tool for immediate activation to live, love and evolve.

Keep in mind that marrying your intent and any inspiring thought, focused with mindful breathing will instantly activate your lucky charm and center you on pointe with purpose.

Faith: "Faith is the courage to live as if everything that happens, and every choice we make, is for our highest good and learning. Faith is also nourished by the higher understanding that every decision eventually leads to wisdom."

~ Brilliant author, Dan Millman "The Four Purposes Of Life"

Hope: "Hope is an emotion which brings richness to our everyday lives. It is defined as 'the feeling that … events will turn out for the best.' When we exercise hope, we 'look forward … with desire and reasonable confidence'. As such, hope brings a certain calming influence to our lives as we confidently look forward to future events."

~Steven E. Snow


Love: "Love is the answer to my every need. The problems in my life are simply opportunities to give forth more love. As I pour love on each situation, the problems all become answers. "
~Inspired author, Jack Addington "The Perfect Power Within"


Luck: "Everything in life is luck."

~ Donald Trump

"Live by law, and you are lucky. People will start to say about you, 'Everything just seems to come her way.' Or, 'He is always so lucky."
~Leslie Householder

Inspiration Recipe Quote

“It is your job to ask, to believe you are receiving, and feel happy now. Leave the details to the Universe on how it will bring it about.”

~Rhonda Byrne


Lucky Charm App (Activation): Eleven Heavenly Seconds, Breath Meditation

(On the Spot, Centering Tool whether you're standing, walking, waiting, living, learning, laughing...)

Joyful Heart Steps ❤❤❤-

❤ Stop: Whooosh, Exhale (pressing your zen button) Relax to refocus into the present moment.

❤ Breathe: (One Mindful Breath Circle) Inhaling mantra sound "Sa" (direct air to your core)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

1/2 note, space

Exhaling mantra sound "Ha" (firming-up core)

6, 7, 8, 9, 10,

1/2 note, space

(11 heavenly seconds) ♬.

❤ Feel: Clear Mind, Peaceful Heart (centered) Activate our worrier to warrior (warrioress) spirit...

Gentle Reminder: It doesn't take more time to get centered, thinking on our feet. It takes intent. It's always an empowering choice we can make to live in what Author, Eckhart Tolle, calls "The Power of Now." Right now, is where choosing to activate our lucky charm of mindful breathing unlocks our ability to live a Charmed Life.

One breath, One moment, One step at a time.

Click here for information to order my Clear Your Mind Manual "Mental Fitness"
Foreword by Leonard Cohen, endorsed by Louise Hay, Dan Millman, Michael Beckwith, Richard Carlson and many more...

In Gratitude w/Love ❤

FunZen Girls OX
Michiko (lil mama) and Grace:

Contact: (805) 490-2391 Twitter: @Zenmommie Email: @mjrolek@aol.com

I teach Kids FunZen and train Parents to be Mindful.

What's Luck Got to Do with It?

My intent is to share my kismet experience of meeting and sharing a pith meaningful conversation with Jerry Seinfeld at Starbucks in Burbank California. Beforehand, let's look at L.U.C.K. as an acronym: (L)abor (U)nder (C)onstructive (K)nowledge meaning with a solid work ethic or discipline, knowledge applied (wisdom) and preparation (foundation) will allow good things to happen for anyone. From a zen perspective consider that resistance or fear pushes away what we want and non resistance and love magnetizes and draws our best and highest good to us. Basically, it's the right attitude, not a random fluke that leads to making your own luck and living a charmed life.

The words that danced through my mind when I spotted Jerry Seinfeld sitting at a table near the front door talking to his colleague who looked more unapproachable than Jerry was "he looks too busy, play it by ear". I only had a couple of minutes and was actually almost late picking up my daughter, so thinking fearlessly on my feet meant I had milliseconds to respond (from my soul) or react (from my ego) and pretend I didn't notice him.

When I quieted down my monkey chatter with a few mindful breaths, I trusted my intuition and just took some heart steps over to his table. Blossoming where I landed, I uttered "this is a Shy to Hi" moment. He smiled and I whooshed feeling comfort and joy that he appeared receptive to my inquiry. I asked him how Zen influenced his "show about nothing" comedy ... He said he was flattered that I asked and shared that Zen had inspired him. He added that he'd read many books on Zen... I mentioned how Grace & I started the FunZen Bakery and shared it's message of light, to help kids shine brilliantly by going within for life lessons or going without their blessed Aha's.

He smiled with a simpatico (friendly) sense of resonating with the point to offer kids and parents Perspective Life Skills. I felt this yin yang creative tension of appreciation that Jerry was open to discussing a bit of zen, yet a strong urgency that I had to go get Grace. It is beyond the scope of this blog to share more details about my Lady Luck experience. Perhaps in a future blog I'll share more awesome details on this idea of Zen and The Art of Jerry Seinfeld which is an actual chapter in a Biography, Jerry Seinfeld, Much Ado About Nothing by Josh Levine that I researched after I met him.

"Zen is just looking at something from a different perspective, and that's what
a lot of comedy is". Jerry Seinfeld

For now, what is key is that you carry the vibe that you can Be your best and make your own luck. With this one thing: Trust your Intuitive Heart which knows how to blossom where you land, with your unique "Shy to Hi" zen moment of; asking a challenging question, meeting someone new, listening to your inner wisdom and shifting away from: what if (future worry) what was (past) to the sweet acceptance of reality or what is (present).

Back to the opening? What's luck got to do with it? It appears that luck has to do with Oprah Winfrey's common sense wisdom; "I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."

Inspirational Recipe: Lady Luck Cupcakes

Following your heart begins within with setting aside a little Quiet Time for Getting Centered.

3's a Charm Stay In Your Heart Interactive Steps:❤❤❤

1) ❤ Blossom where you land by feeling your feet pressing down (root lower body) and gently reach up (rise) through your heavenly crown, eyes closed (center up between your eyebrows; or lower your eye lids) keeping your head to the sky, shoulders ( heart wings) spreading soft and wide.

2) ❤ Mindfully (non judgmentally, be kind to your mind) Observe your breath flowing out and in...up to a minute or so. Gradually deepen your breath by feeling the rise and fall of your tummy ~Ride the waves ~(Discover Centered Breath in Mental Fitness pg 22)

3) ❤ Ignore and dismiss any (monkey chatter) self defeating thoughts like doubt and regrets sweep your mind clear with your long breath out. Welcome the compassionate heart thoughts that inspire you to aspire and take action for your highest good.

Here's your Lady Luck Centering Charm to make or bake your own luck. This is one that Grace (daughter) and I use often to zencourage positive thinking, raise our energy and deepen our fearless faith.

Exhale, relax and refocus, Breathe in ~I am (pixie pause) Long Breath Out~

Being my best and allowing God (Divine Love or Spirit) to handle the rest...repeat 3 or more times. Note starting to sense zen-like calm to carry on... comes naturally.

As mentioned in the previous blogs Got Zen? Becoming A Resourcerer, we are exploring ways to activate brilliant author, Neil Pasricha's 3A's of Awesome, Attitude (way of being) Awareness (mindfulness) Authenticity (return to your original nature) using Mental Fitness to get your head in the A game.

Any suggestions or questions: tweet me, call me, email me, facebook awaits; How can I help you empower yourself to shine? Looking forward... Let's start the conversation.

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In Gratitude w/Love ❤

FunZen Girls OX
Michiko and Grace

Life Coaching Services now available: 805 490-2391
Contact: MJRolek@aol.com
Twitter: @Zenmommie

I teach Kids FunZen and train Parents to be Mindful.

Yoko (ocean child) Ono's commitment to spread Imagine Peace clarifies the meaning of a zen mommie; let a little peace begin with the me in mommie.

The Art of Zencouragement

"The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure." Misha Baryshnikov

Lucky Charm Starter ♡: let's apply the essence of this quote with a delicious inspirational recipe; for helping you find your Comfort & Joy Ritual.

Start simply by being curious about what brings you pleasure or joy... Just asking the question and getting quiet by breathing deeper will empower you to hear your lucky "Aha" message smack in the middle of life, perhaps rustling in the Fall leaves, ❧ or twinkling in the night sky.✳


Thank you for visiting the FunZen Bakery, ♡

Zen mommie and Grace oxox