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Connect Withy Source Throughout the years of assisting others and myself to feel truly joyous and free, I've watched people try to ignore, deny or rationalize away the importance of having a reliable, genuine link with Source. How to Feel Better Fast! The key to moving through life in our everyday world as easily, gracefully and pleasurably as possible is to be able to fully experience both sides of all qualities easily, gracefully and pleasurably. The Times They Are a'Changin' My youthful heart knew that Dylan was heralding a universal truth and a specific cultural prophesy. Who's In Charge Here? As the outer emissary of the soul, your personality is in command of 10 crucial aspects of your everyday life. You are in charge of these critical aspects of your life. Getting Your Power Back In my experience, the conscious state of sovereignty is absolutely critical for genuine, lasting satisfaction in the earth experience. Drop Your Bucket Right Where You Are! The very goals we seek are close at hand—only we are blinded by our ideas about what form the achievement of these goals will take. Unlock Your Soul Code: Make Your Life More Fun and Abundant We all come into this life with a unique “Soul Adventure” encrypted in a “Soul Code.” Your Soul Code is your life design—your Original Vision, Birth Vision. Your Perfect Weight: What's Love Got to do With It? Weight has nothing to do with diet, exercise, genes or how much we eat! Maintaining our perfect body weight has everything to do with the free flow of love in our lives. Your Hidden Portal to Peace Have you ever felt a rush of recognition wash over you? Do new people or places seem vaguely familiar? Do you ever get a sense that you’ve been in this exact situation before? This strange feeling of connection with places and people is a clue, a flag, a signal. This sense of familiarity marks a gateway to a personal gold mine of clarity and strength. Who's the You Running Your Life? Have you noticed you're still using some of the same behavioral strategies to get what you want as an adult that you used in your youth? Where's Your Happiness Hiding? It’s no accident that certain stories rivet our attention. Listening to these tales with perked “inner ears” alerts us to possibilities we’ve never considered before. The story I’m sharing with you touched the core of my being and propelled me towards my dream. This true tale is about Kathy, whose quest for her dream took a sudden and unexpected U-turn. What's on Your Shift List? The most happy and successful people on earth have a personal Shift List. They probably don’t call it by that name, but they have one. How do I know? Because these folks are enjoying their journey on our challenging planet! A Shift List is simply a list of activities and attitudes that have the power to shift you from feeling blue to feeling new. What Web Are You Weaving? If we want to change the life experiences that we’re attracting, we need to change the web of thoughts, feelings and actions that we’re sending out into our world. 12 Vitality Secrets Right Outside Your Door Mother Nature has much to teach us about abundance and ease—if we will only listen. 12 Questions to Kickstart Your Dream What’s your dream? Would you like to give your vision a jumpstart? Write down your goals and use these questions to speed up delivery of your dream. Traveling Out of Body I can see the cops coming! They’re a good thousand feet away. I can clearly make out their uniforms and swinging nightsticks. How can I be seeing this? I didn’t dare mention it to my fellow underage drinking mates lounging with me on the grassy knoll in the park. Am I making this up? Transform Your Life Through a Vision Quest In the quiet, empty, ageless spaces of remote canyons, you can often get clearer answers to your spiritual or practical questions than through traditional sitting meditation. 3 Keys to Fulfill Your Wildest Dreams If you’d like to fulfill your long-held dreams, try a radical approach. Radical people create their own breakthroughs for getting the job, love and health they really want. Nonconformists open to options for achieving “extraordinary” goals that others don’t see. The Plant Fairy Speaks People often question me about how they can deliberately develop a personal connection with nonphysical beings in other dimensions of reality. Finally, so many people came to me expressing a sincere longing to see and talk with angels, nature devas and spirit guides, I felt compelled to find a way to help them. So I asked my inner coach the same question my many friends asked me: “Why is direct connection to beings in other dimensions a natural ability for a few people and yet seemingly impossible for so many others?” The Gifts of Nature Throughout history people have gone into Nature seeking profound spiritual revelations, dramatic physical healings and liberating emotional breakthroughs. Telepathy: "Hello, Is Anyone Home?" Talking heart-to-heart is a natural ability for animals and people. Individual birds in a flock change their flight path at the same time. You “think” of a friend the moment before your friend calls. Coincidence? No. It’s telepathy. The cosmic communication system. Tapping Primal Life Force No being with heart would shackle another free being. No being whose spirit still lives would ever kill the spirit of another being—by any means. Talking Rocks Traditionally, indigenous people embark on a vision quest to reconnect to their spirit and intuition. Many modern folks use the vision quest to receive clarity about their life purpose. Others open to guidance concerning the next step on their life path. Still others seek to break free of old habits and patterns that aren’t bringing them true health and happiness. Like the native peoples, our courageous group is tapping into the raw vitality of Nature for counsel about moving through life’s challenges. Switch to a Better Channel! Peril, catastrophe and disaster. These are our friends, allies and mentors. Appearing as enemies on the surface, these seeming threats are our most helpful teachers on our Earth adventure. These apparent foes repeatedly demonstrate how we humans have awesome power over our fate and circumstances in life. Survival Guide for the Holidays:How to Have the Most Fun Possible with Your Family! You love your family—yet dread the holidays because you know that, following the usual holiday debacle, the main thing you'll be thankful for is waving goodbye to Mom and Dad, knowing you have a year to recuperate. Surf the Wave of Abundance Bank account bare? Bedroom barren? Body running on empty? Buddha not showing up? Why? Maybe because your beat is off! You’re out of step with the AbunDance. It’s a dance that requires flexibility, fluidity and, above all, the willingness to flow with life’s changing rhythms. Supercharge Your Dreams! We all accept the fact that the lighter the backpack, the easier and quicker the climb to the top of the mountain. We all understand that the lighter the load on an airplane, the higher and faster it can fly. We pay extra for high octane fuel so our car will operate more efficiently. Then why don’t we apply the same wisdom to our bodies and our dreams? Super Psychic Kids These innocent children are demonstrating natural spiritual abilities that are relegated by most people to the realms of fantasy and movie special effects. The Super Highway of Success Unexplainable funds appear in your bank account. Cars and computers that aren’t working inexplicably begin to function again. Out of the blue, strangers provide much-needed assistance. You’re not in The Twilight Zone. You’re in The Intuitive Zone—receiving the Grace and support that come from following your intuition. Stopping Time Six hundred feet straight down! Nothing to break the fall. I’ve got to switch channels. I don’t like my chances on this station. Infused with youthful caprice, I mused to myself about my predicament. Enjoying the intense body rush of imminent danger, I was torn between prolonging the joy-terror and searching for an escape from my imminent demise. Stop, Look, and Listen! Native peoples relate to every form of life as being alive, filled with energy and always communicating something to us. The key is in learning how to receive the communication. Speaking Your Truth When I speak what I know from direct experience, my body—and Spirit—support me fully! Sound Heals! The words people choose to speak and the musicpeople listen to have profound power to decrease pain, draw people out of emotional and mental isolation and even clear polluted water. Rush Home to Rapture! Riding a rush, being juiced, flying high—this is the feeling we strive for every day. Our attraction to highs is a natural, built-in homing device implanted in us by the Universe. This attraction leads us to the Real McCoy in life—the real deal, real satisfaction. It’s God’s bait to get us to bite deeper into life’s offerings. Riding the Energy of Ease Do you ever have days when things go right? Relationships click. Your job’s terrific. Money’s rolling in. Your body feels great. You tingle with the excitement of being alive. You have the magic touch and everything works out the way you want. You’re in The Zone! A Recipe for Alchemy Grandma has a scrumptious, old-family recipe for chocolate pecan pie that melts in your mouth. Uncle Bert whips up a killer BBQ sauce for ribs (or grilled tofu). I’ve discovered a more direct route to happiness—a tantalizing recipe for alchemy! Prosperity Can Be Easy and Fun! Universal Supply is having what you choose (want and need) when you choose to have it. In truth, it is our natural state. The Practical Power of the Shaman If you have a taste of divine ecstasy, shamanism can teach you how to ground it, how to bring it into your everyday life through using your natural gifts and talents. Shamanism can support you in translating that experience, that creative energy, into physical form so it can benefit yourself and everyone around you. Plants Have Souls - And Gifts for Humans Scientific research indicates that plants communicate with insects, animals, human beings and other plants in order to keep themselves alive and safe. Once-a-Day Prescriptions for Joy Keep yourself happy and healthy with these simple Once-a-Day Prescriptions for joy. 9 Steps to Abundance The word “abundance” comes from a Sanskrit word meaning “wave.” If we place ourselves in the River of Life, we can ride the wave, or current, of universal abundance to encounter all the money, vitality and love we could ever want. Multidimensional Journeys with Extraterrestrials In college, Thanksgiving was a great excuse for me to escape from the pressures of schoolwork. The traditional rituals of the holiday were secondary to my need to blow off steam and space out watching the latest action flicks. I never suspected my soul would cast me in an action movie of my own adventures featuring extraterrestrials and inner space. Behind the Scenes in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood Fred Rogers taught me how to communicate in the most profound and affecting way—heart to heart, soul to soul. He not only showed me how to convey messages through direct transmission, he modeled how to do so with clarity, love and integrity. By daily example with the children and crew, he demonstrates how to use authenticity of intention to connect with other human beings on the most fundamental spiritual level. The Mind Creates its Worst Fear On my sojourn across the country, a night spent camping in Idaho’s mountain wilderness demonstrated to me the power of the human mind to create a physical reality from its deepest emotional fears. The Miraculous Message of Water The quality of human life is intimately connected with the quality of our water. Meeting My Inner Coach Throughout our lives, our inner coach guides us into situations where we can gain a clearer vision of ourselves, our world and our future. Sometimes the path can be turbulent, as the personality tries to close its eyes to the grander view. However, when the personality opens again to inner guidance, the light of clarity illuminates the previously darkened world. The Man Who Tastes Shapes Some people see, taste, hear and feel things the rest of us Don’ t. James Wannerton tastes words. Love Magic: How to Attract Your Perfect Partner for Passion, Profession or Play Most of the people who taught us about love are people who don’t let themselves be loved. Hello? What’s wrong with this picture? A little wacky, yes? Yes! In truth, is there any good reason to withhold love from yourself? The accurate answer is “No!” Let’s do a Reality Check on love. The Lost Art of Levitation An old joke goes, “How do angels fly?” The answer is, “They take themselves lightly.” One evening I uncovered the core of truth in this joke. Little did I imagine that the joke was being totally literal. The Joy of Living in the Zone What do people want most in the world? What is the most sought-after goal? From the moment we awaken to the moment we close our eyes at night, what is it we seek every minute of the day? We want to feel good. Live Your Passion Would you like to have more energy? Does your heart long for more love? Could you use more money in your pocket? Would you like to have a closer connection to Higher Power? Yes, you can have all this—and more! Just the Facts, Ma'am! Jack Webb’s famous line from the old Dragnet TV show resounds in my head as I sort through my hopes, wishes—and fears—about my goals in life. To shift myself from listening to the negative comments of my mind, I imagine his crusty character, Sergeant Friday, barking at me “Just the facts, Sir!” Jumpstart Your Life! Ten ways to put some kick back in your life! Joy is the Juice One day I put together my schoolteachers’ complaints about their work and my father’s look of exhaustion when he came home from the office. I realized in a flash of recognition that I wasn’t going to be allowed to simply play the rest of my life. I’d have to make money to live. I’d have to work. I’d have to get a job! Yikes! It's Never Too Late to say I Love You Throughout my life, I often remarked to friends that it would take an act of God, a miracle, to reconcile my father and me. And that is exactly what it took. It's a Great Day to Die! The end of the year is the perfect time to die to old limitations and outmoded ways of thinking. Indiana Jones and the Volcano Miguel had promised we would feel and know the spirit of the volcano. He said the mountain would definitely erupt when we were there. And he’d promised the volcano would not harm us. How'd They Do That? When life offers people a choice between their beliefs in what is possible and the necessity to save another from harm, people often scrap their perceived limitations and choose to do whatever needs to be done. How to Ride the Winds of Change We humans can learn a lot from animals. They are natural Change Riders. They go with the current, instead of against it. In fact, they’ve learned to anticipate life’s changes and prepare for the inevitable with grace and ease. How to Be a Miracle Maker: Create the Love, Money, Body and Spirit You Want Here’s a fascinating secret about miracles: You can’t necessarily always place an order for magic at will, but you can deliberately create the conditions—environment, atmosphere and attitude—that make miracles a thousand times more likely to occur. How the Hopi Create Their World The message Tobias and I received in the kiva was simple, yet profound: the power to create lies in the Present, not in the future. Creation happens now when declared with power, heart and strong intention. How Enemies Can Become Best Friends Can so-called "natural enemies"—wild bears, wolves and mountain lions—live together as friends? Or, will they fight, maim or kill each other? Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Attract What You Want in Life Mother Nature and I have been very intimate. I felt I knew her secrets. Boy, was I wrong! What God Asks You in Heaven A spiritual teacher quizzes me, “Do you know what God’s going to ask you when you die?” From past encounters, I know that he isn’t going to hold his breath waiting for me to dig up an answer. And sure enough, he proposes a response that changes my life. Having It All! Why Some People Make the Leap - and Others Don't We are each beings of light. Within that light are all the colors of the rainbow—all the aspects of God and humanity—all the power of our natural spiritual abilities. Why do some of us open to the full spectrum of our magnificence and power? Why do most of us continue to see only black and white? Guns and Gurus “Treat death as an ally,” the shamans advise. I often wondered what Native American medicine men and shamans meant by this saying. One idyllic summer afternoon, I got my answer. Freedom All day my inner coach was incessantly urging me to put myself out into the flow of the River of Life, so I could bump into my destiny. Spirit was not buying my lame excuse of inclement weather. I set out for my wet adventure, thinking to myself, Perhaps my inner coach knows that some gift awaits me that I can’t imagine! Foreverness In the course of our journey together, my spiritual teacher and friend Michio Kushi blessed me with fresh ways to view the universe—and myself. Above all else, Michio’s gift to me was a flirting glimpse of the experience of timeless connection between souls, a tantalizing taste of foreverness. The Fickle Finger of Fate A very brief, but potent incident early in my workshop career showed me that the human ability to heal has no limits—not even in regard to the past! Feel Better Now! Many folks think “Ascension” means that they will be rising above the 3rd dimensional Earth plane and thereby having to leave behind their loved ones and life as they know it. E.T. to the Rescue! “Ouch!” Kriya just burned herself quite severely on a toaster. Her mother Leslie knew I recently completed a course in a healing method called Reiki, a technique involving the laying on of hands. As a caring mom, she pleaded, “Would you do some Reiki on Kriya’s finger?” Enjoy the Magic of Prosperity Why does the money run out? Why doesn't passion stay around? Why doesn’t health last? Perhaps because we’re not playing. 11 Questions to Kickstart Your Dream What’s your dream? Want to give your vision a jumpstart? Write down your goals and use these questions to speed up delivery of your dream. Dolphins and Whales: Gateways to Healing One lazy late summer afternoon, lying on the deck of a small boat, I found myself staring into the eye of a giant Humpback whale who had surfaced only a few feet away. This intimate contact catapulted me into a dramatic embrace of wholeness and expanded consciousness. A Cure for Cancer In my wildest imagination, I never dreamed of helping someone kick cancer over the phone! “I’m dying, Keith,” my brother John choked out between sobs. Crop Circles - Natural Portals to Freedom Crop circles are geometric formations of great beauty and power that appear mainly in grain crops. Over 5,000 such agriglyphs (agri = agriculture, glyph = picture) have presented themselves in over 40 countries since the first sighting was recorded in a 17th century woodcut. Choosing Innocence Once in a while, I receive wisdom on the human condition from a specific aspect of nature. These direct transmissions have consistently helped me weather the changing tides of fortune and emotion in my life. Call of the Wild As a living guidance system, Nature does more than illuminate your way through life. Nature models how to best proceed on your life journey with step-by-step suggestions. What's Bugging You? Some people lure romance to them. Some folks magnetize riches. Others attract bugs. What’s the difference? Don’t Let the Boogeyman Steal Your Dreams The boogeyman lurking in the closet scares the bejesus out of little kids. “Big people” know the imaginary monster from their childhood isn’t real. Yet, adults freeze in their tracks when the same monster pops up on their path in life. What's in your Blind Spot? happiness, success, money, love, abundance, prosperity, joy, relationships, health, spirit, intuition Be a Change Master! happiness, success, money, love, abundance, prosperity, joy, relationships, health, spirit Are You Part ot the Wake Up Crew? Many people living on the planet right now have volunteered to accept the opportunity to play teaching, healing, inspirational and leadership roles during this current planetary transformation. Most folks have a kind of amnesia concerning these agreements. Amazon Tribe Talk via Heart Sounds In what might be compared to the telepathic, holographic language dolphins and whales use, a tribe of aborigines has been discovered in South America who communicate in a similar way. 10 Tips to Make Life More Fun Contrary to the opinion of many parents, it’s OK to want to have fun in everything you do in life. It’s not selfish, insensitive or self-centered. Wanting life to be fun is natural, normal and healthy. 7 Secrets to Finding Joy To pursue happiness is an inalienable right. To experience happiness is not. Happiness is a choice—your choice. Read the Signs Life Gives Us The most direct route the soul takes to connect with us is by speaking with a silent inner voice or urging. It tries to reach us through intuition. But often we don't, or can't, receive this direct inner communication.

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