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Sharing What I've Learned

If you've visited my web page before, you might notice that I've made a few changes. I have done some bit of re-writing in each section. I have added a number of sections: links to podcasts and websites, a couple of new philosophical pieces, quotes I have liked and an online bookstore listing books I have read. I hope you'll find the changes and additions helpful and interesting.

Even before my discovery a couple years ago of The Secret (as seen on the Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah and Larry King shows) and its popularity because of those shows, I had been reading books and learning about the Law of Attraction. I have to credit and thank my oldest friend Sue, from grade and high school for giving me my first books to read and many more reading suggestions and book gifts since. I have in the last couple of years been reading and listening to podcasts ravenously on this subject, and about making a conscious connection to spirit the source and spark of our life energy.

The practice of the Law of Attraction is not totally new to me. My awareness that it is a law and consciously directing my thoughts to be in line with the positive flow of abundance and love is new. I have learned about these things from all the books I have read and podcasts I have listened to. I have heard people say that you can not do a journey that awakens and frees you alone. Those were often people who charge fees to learn their particular way to freedom and enlightenment. I'm not at all saying they shouldn't charge or that I haven't paid those fees along the way and been happy to do so. I just felt deeply that one should not have to pay beyond their means to experience the opening of the soul and the expanding awareness that is inherent in seeking the spiritual connection in my life.

I created this lens so that I could share with more people what I have learned and from whom I have learned so far on my journey toward what I feel is my evolution and awakening. Because I strongly felt that one need not spend huge amounts of money to find your path to awakening and well being, it has been my quest to find free and/or affordable ways to pursue this path. I hope you will find helpful and useful information for your own journey.

There is a guestbook toward the bottom of the page where you can post your own reviews of books, CDs or podcasts you have found inspiring on The Law of Attraction and awakening. I look forward to seeing what you all have read and think.

BEYOND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

Awakening

When I made this lens a couple of years ago I was very excited to share what I was learning because I really was feeling so much better and happier than before I had heard anything about it. Now I feel I have gone beyond the Law of Attraction in my spiritual education and development and want to share how I got to this place where I truly am happy to be alive and excited about each new day. I thought about titling this page "Podcasting Your Way To Enlightenment", but then just decided to make the podcasts another section on this page. Below I have a list of links to free podcasts I have listened to as well as an online bookstore with the books I have read or have been recommended to me. These podcasts and books have really helped me to grow spiritually and to feel peaceful and hopeful about the world in a way I never have before.

Oprah and Eckhart Tolle have recently popularized the term 'awakening', of which I was not previously aware. I had thought before that I wanted to evolve or become enlightened. I am now liking the term awakening and I believe I really have come a long way in my own 'awakening' over the last couple of years. It does feel like I have awakened out of the fear, frustration and stress that I was experiencing. Reading the books in WakeRobin Bookshop, listening to free podcasts and radio shows, and writing a gratitude and intentions journal are what have helped me get to this place of peace and happiness, with a sense of fulfullment and purpose. I am now really appreciating life and hopeful for the future of our world.

As I wrote earlier it has long been my belief that one does not have to spend large amounts of money to obtain happiness, peace and prosperity and to freely and confidently live the life you desire. I am grateful to have this easy to use forum from which to share the places where I have gotten so much helpful and useful information. I have not been too specific about what actual shows within each podcast I felt I most benefited from because we each have our own ways to learn and grow. You can hunt around in the same way I did to discover which teachers and which subjects profoundly touch you.

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IN A NUTSHELL

How to Make it Work for You

Like attracts like. Simply stated, that is the definition of the Law of Attraction (LOA). When you think about it, the proof of this is all around you. When things are going well in your life, many good things come to you and you feel happy. But when things are going badly, the bad experiences just seem to pile up.

The practice of the LOA is not new to me. All my life I have somehow known how to choose happiness, rather than staying in jobs or relationships that did not feel good to me. I wasn't at all conscious of the law that choosing what feels good allows more good to come in to your life. I just knew I didn't want to be unhappy and chose not to do those things that made me feel bad.

Even still and without my knowing it, I was working against my natural inclination toward happiness all the time. Worrying, stressing, being uptight about time, often trying to impose my rigidities on those closest to me, and complaining to others or myself about my frustrations. I have spent a fair amount of time feeling bad and not understanding why.

I bring this up because what we feel is the key to understanding and working with the LOA. The strength of our power to attract and create what we want in our lives lies in our feeling good when we think about what it is we are wanting. A positive and good feeling has a hundred times more power to create than a negative or bad feeling. What has been key for me to learn is that I can direct my thoughts and feelings toward feeling good at any time.

Friends from CollegeHow I have learned to do this came in a suggestion I think on one of the Abraham books, "Ask and it is Given". It suggested thinking about things that have made me feel good in the past and it really worked for me. It can be anything, pets, walking along the beach, hanging with friends, dancing, listening to music and singing. I think about the thing that I know has made me feel good in the past and recall it in my memory until I start smiling. When I am smiling and my heart feels good, I visualize what I want to create in my life and imagine how good that will also feel.

By practicing feeling good, then visualizing in this way, I have attracted many of the things on my list. I am happier, I have a stronger sense of purpose, I have cleared my credit card debt, and my puppy is growing up to be a really good dog - just to mention a few. Things don't occur immediately, but many great things have happened for me in the last 6 months since beginning to work with LOA.

One year manifesting update: I have to say that the real benefit of my seeking and learning has truly been my increasing happiness with this life I am in and the inner peace I feel that I never did before. That said, I am in two weeks going to Europe for the first time in my life, something I have wanted to do since I was in high school. It is also on the manifesting wish list I made about a year ago, of things I intended to accomplish, as was traveling more in general. In the next eight months I am going to Italy, France, Disneyworld in Orlando (and Paris), to the Hay House I can Do It Conference in Las Vegas and to the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. (Okay, I do admit that I go to the festival every year.)

I am also taking at least one day a week to take trips closer to home to the coast, the gorge, wildlife refuges, and the many state, county and city parks we have here. These little close to home trips have been great for my spirit and for helping me to slow down and really apreciate this wonderful environment we live in here in Oregon.

I'm just sayin, it truly is possible to make what you want happen.

FORGIVENESS

Removing Blocks to Manifesting

maple treeI am writing this section on forgiveness, because I truly feel that it is the miracle that changed how I feel in this world. I also want to point out that anger and resentment are blocks to truly being able to be at your most creative, 'attracting' capability. Almost every one of the Law of Attraction gurus will say that one needs to release the blocks that are holding you back from having the self confidence you need in order to create what you desire in your life.

I went through a few years after my mother passed of feeling really angry at the world and probably at God as well. I hated everything and all I saw was the bad everywhere - hateful people, thoughtless people, rude drivers, irresponsible pet owners, wars, famine. Everything made me mad and I had a lot of rage that would periodically and uncontrollably bubble up to the surface in inappropriate ways. It truly was one of my 'Dark Night of the Soul' periods.

I have to again thank my friend Sue, because she gave me a set of CD's named Secrets of the Immortal by Gary Renard. I listened to him talking about A Course In Miracles and forgiveness as the primary tenant of that teaching and finally something started to click for me about forgiveness. I had previously been quite unwilling to forgive some people and experiences, not at all understanding how someone could forgive the unforgivable. I subsequently listened to other podcasts by people like Wayne Dyer and Marianne Williamson and the first idea that got though to me about forgiveness was that the practice of it was really for my benefit. I had always thought, from Christian teaching I received as a child, that a person forgives so that the other person will feel better and not carry the guilt of what they did. The main explanation given about forgiveness was, "It's the Christian thing to do".

I now have learned that in being forgiving and practicing forgiveness, I am releasing myself from the weight or guilt of the bad experience and that I need not carry that experience with me everywhere I go for the rest of my life as I had been with so many experiences. This concept helped me to realize that truly, my anger and hatred and resentment was only hurting me and that the people who I thought harmed me were in all likelihood completely unaware of the bad vibes I was sending and holding on to toward them (because, I was almost always nice to the person's face). My unforgiveness was getting me nowhere but more upset and unhappy. It created a lot of mistrust and some paranoia about the motivation and actions of people in general. I also carried around a lot of guilt over things I did in the past; innapropiate behavior, mean or bullying things I said to people, and a lifetime of regrets.

So how did I get myself to forgive the unforgivable? I'm not here to say it was easy and happened overnight. It took a fair bit of work and I have to credit a few podcasts with helping me work this out. The Power Within You podcast by Kathleen Graham helped me a lot, Wayne Dyer's Inspiration podcast and the Gary Renard podcasts and CDs (links listed below). What I was able to do, through listening to Kathleen Graham, was to work through all my old resentments and unforgiveness with her use of the Sedona Method. This is an easy to use method of releasing old (and new) negative emotions. The part I liked best about it was that I did not have to go through a lot of intensive therapy and rehash all those old experiences until I was blue in the face.

THE SEDONA METHOD

Crystal Springs treeThe process is basically that you do face the thing you have unforgiveness, resentment, or even sadness for. You accept it as part of you, it's part of the plethora of what makes you who you are, and that there is the gift of a lesson in the experience (which I find is often about helping me to be more compassionate in the world). You sit with that acceptance a moment, then you just tell yourself to let it go, to release it. I often had to do this numerous times to really feel like it did indeed release it. Sometimes I thought I had released it and it would bubble up again later, unexpectedly, so then I would just go through the process again. While listening to the Power Within You podcast, which is free, I systematically went through all the experiences I held within me that felt bad, through my whole life. With each one I let go of, I felt a little bit lighter and freer until that lifetime of holding on to all my old negative stuff was gone. It was really hardest to forgive myself, I think because I had bought into the idea that we are all sinners and need to be forgiven by someone else and by God.

Going through this process of release and forgiveness was a miracle for me. It wasn't until I had released all my unforgiving thoughts that I realized how very burdened I felt carrying all that heavy negative emotion and unpleasantly replaying the images and experiences over and over again in my mind. As I listened more to Gary Renard and read his book, "Your Immortal Reality", I delved deeper into the practice of forgiveness as a way of living. I believe that one of the reasons I am happier is that when I encounter a frustating situation, I am able to stop and bring myself into a feeling of forgiveness before the frustration takes hold and leads to complaining and anger. It is has been very relaxing to take the burden of anger and frustration out of my response to the world around me and my experiences.

To bring this idea back to the Law of Attraction, the feelings you feel and send out come right back to you and many people believe that the good and positive feelings you feel have more power to help you bring about what you desire. Worrying, anger, frustration and negativity will never bring anything you want back to you. Forgiveness is the tool, the gift you give to yourself to have consistant good and positive feelings and and an enjoyable experience of this life.

RESOURCE BOOKSTORE

Resources for Law of Attraction and Awakening

Wakerobin BookshopRECENTLY UPDATED!!! Check out all the new books I've added to the bookstore. This is an online store with books, DVDs and CDs. These are by authors I have read and/or have been highly reccomended by authors and hosts of podcasts I listen to. The books have been amazingly helpful to me in my growth and development.

I created this online bookstore in order to provide easy access to the many great books I have read or want to read because they were so highly reccomended by spiritual teachers I admire. It is dvided into categories to make it easier to find the books you might be interested in. When you click on the book you will get a full description and pricing.

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WAKEROBIN BOOKSHOP
I have read a lot of the books listed and found them very helpful in my unfolding awareness of myself and of the spirit within. I have found lots of useful techniques for releasing the negative effects of the past and for greater self awareness. There are also many with interesting new thought on spirituality, religion, science and the law of attraction.

Wakerobin Bookshop is divided up into categories for easy perusal, but give a look at all of them because you never know which might be the perfect book for you to read next. You will find such authors as Esther and Jerry Hicks (Abraham), Gregg Braden, Caroline Myss, Gangaji, Pema Chodron, Wayne Dyer, Neale Donald Walsch, Marianne Williamson, Doreen Virtue, Gary Renard and many more. Clicking on the book will lead you to a description. I've added a Hay House section with many Hay House authors now listed in their own category.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The proceeds from all sales from the Wakerobin Bookshop will be donated to the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer from now through December 2009

AS I AM

Thoughts on Oneness

Recently I read a book called The Moses Code and also bought the movie, which was self described as the having the biggest and best manifesting tool ever. It had to do with Moses and the burning bush story, which I'm not going to go into, but the basis of which is God referring to herself as I AM THAT, I AM. The whole 'greatest manifesting tool ever' thing did not quite ring true for me, but the implication of and importance of the idea of oneness described in the book and movie did.

The importance of oneness as spiritual reference, I feel is key to embracing the diversity of this universe and key to acceptance in general. The simple concept of oneness in a quantum physics way of defining, is that we are all made of the same energy, because everything is energy, therefore we are all one in the same energy. All being of the same energy, we have access to all that exists within this energy that is all things, if we can get ourselves into vibrational harmony with that which we are seeking.

In a more traditionally religious way of defining, we are all one as children of God, made of the same essence of God and therefore all the same in the eyes of God, which is how we too should see ourselves and others.

frozen waterfallI kind of like to put these two things together, in that God is the divine consciousness that puts love at the center of all things and that love is in fact what the 'energy' is that we are all made of. With love as the guiding force, the consciousness of God, oneness then becomes also our source of love and our connection to God or the Divine Consciousness. In fact, oneness becomes our source in all ways, in my mind at least, and a lot of others, as you will find as you read or listen to others on this subject.

Our ability to recognize that which is the same in all of us, that divine spark of love, which created all that there is, brings peace and harmony into our lives, because it provides an insight for recognizing this divine spark in other beings. It is in the moment of this recognition that one can see past the physical bodies we experience and present, to our energetic source as it is, inside us and everywhere around us and in all beings.

One of the ways to facilitate this understanding that has been suggested, by the Moses Code and others, is that one says the words, "I AM THAT" OR "I AM THAT, I AM" in thought as you look on other people or things. The idea is that this gets you into the oneness consciousness, which boosts your creative ability. Again, this part of the Moses Code did not quite work for me, so I altered this saying a bit to what felt more effective for my way of being and to the way the Law of Attraction gurus suggest.

It is widely thought that one needs to feel the thing, person or beingness you are seeking within you before you actually recieve it physically. One needs to feel the joy and excitement of having the thing and feel an acceptance as if it already is in your experience as you desire. They say that it is this feeling of having it already that magnetizes and boosts your attracting ability. With this in mind, I altered the verbal tool suggested in the Moses Code to "AS I AM, I AM THAT". The idea being that I am already that, as I am. I need not change or be different, because in this energy of which we are all one in existance, I AM already THAT, AS I AM, I am already all things. Saying this and imagining that you are that, as you are, lends confidence to your creative energy and vision, and that boosts your magnetic ability to draw in what you desire.

Globally, recognition of our oneness is increasing and with this comes awareness in increasing numbers that there is no 'other'. We are not really seperate in our true selves. I was listening to Gangaji's CD 'Who Are You?' today and she expressed it this way: "We are one of the many life streams that is born of and fed by the Great Ocean. The Great Ocean of life informs and animates each life stream." I add to this that each life stream also then informs the Great Ocean of life. So that your thought and feeling experience expands outwardly contributing the one great conscious energy.

There are many people gathering on the web to consciously imagine peace on the planet together. They've gathered to imagine rain in areas of drought, and to imagine the reversal of the effects of global warming. Law of Attraction Talk Radio is one of the shows that sets up these gatherings. It is thought by many of today's spiritual teachers and philosophers that the simultaneous conscious intent of two, twenty or two thousand people exponentially increases the manifestation power of the intention within our global consciousness and therefore has great power to effect positive change in our world.

I have made a small Squidoo page with affirmations I work with using 'As I Am'. Check it out: Sutree's Affirmations

HAY HOUSE RADIO

Link to listen to your favorite authors

Crystal SpringsI have listed a few of the shows I have liked on Hay House Radio, but they have many more and hundreds of shows in archives. You can listen to streaming radio or click on their podcast button to listen to archived shows. You will have to become a member to listen to archived shows, but it is an easy free process. Listening to the shows live is free as well as downloading them within the first week of their broadcast. Recently they changed their free archive policy to a pay service. They are calling it the The Wisdom Community, and there are other perks and discounts as well if you do join.

Even though many of these shows are call in, I find that I almost always hear something that is good for me to hear in the discussions.
HAY HOUSE RADIO
Hay House Radio refers to itself as "Radio for your soul". They have some great programs both featuring their published authors as hosts and as guest on other shows. Many of the podcasts I list come from Hay House Radio and you can go directly there and search their programming and archives for shows...
Hay House Highlights
Hay House Highlights features the best interviews and commentary heard on our shows each week. You'll be introduced to fabulous hosts, interesting topics, and to our wonderful community of listeners and callers. Each day's episode includes vignettes from three different programs that aired the day before. For those of you with tight schedules, this show offers the "best of" our programs, so you can fit HayHouseRadio.com into your busy life.
Spirit Connectios with John Holland
John Holland's goal is to push the limits of our consciousness, explore our own inner guidance, and provide confirmation that we are more than just these physical beings-we are spiritual beings with unlimited potential. As a world-renowned and highly sought-after medium, John provides listeners with a gateway to the Other Side to open the "Spirit Connection." "Mediumship is more than just about delivering messages," he says, "it's about the confirmation that our 'spirit' lives on once we leave our physical body. We are and always will be connected to each other."
Sacred Contracts with Caroline Myss
Caroline Myss believes that each of us is guided by a Sacred Contract that our soul made before we were born. That Contract contains a wide range of agreements regarding all that we are intended to learn, do, and be in this life. To understand our Contract, we start by discovering what key archetypes shape our lives. So if you want to explore your sacred contracts with the Universe, and learn all about archetypes and how to discover your true calling, tune in to Caroline Myss, the preeminent teacher in this field. This show is packed with information as Caroline takes calls and gives on-the-spot intuitive readings to identify callers' own archetypes and Contracts.
Coach On Call with Cheryl Richardson
Coach On Call, hosted by The New York Times best-selling author Cheryl Richardson, offers you a fresh, new kind of talk radioone filled with practical, no-nonsense advice about life. Tune in to listen to provocative interviews with great thinkers who will challenge you to look at your life in a whole new way. Hear what happens when Cheryl lasercoaches callers on the spot. Get the information you need to improve your financial health, strengthen your relationships, find work that you love, or simplify your busy life. Stop dreaming about a great life, and start living it. Listen to Coach On Call today!
Excuses Begone! with Dr. Wayne Dyer
Discover the spirit of intention with Wayne Dyer in this exhilarating hour-long show. Wayne's remarkable insights and awesome talent for communicating have propelled him into international fame as the foremost authority on how the power of your mind creates your world. Wayne explains that intention is a force in the universe that allows the act of creation to take place, and your will and your imagination stir this power within you...
Angel Therapy with Doreen Virtue
What are your angels trying to tell you? Doreen Virtue, clairvoyant doctor of psychology and the author of 25 books, begins each show by drawing an angel oracle card and giving the entire listening audience a reading.
Join her each week as she discusses ways to get in touch with your angels, as well as the angels' messages for us all (especially regarding news of the day). Doreen helps you see the bright side of every issue, and teaches you practical ways to turn difficulties into triumphs
The Colette Baron-Reid Show
I like listening to Colette's radio show. she has some great tips and teaching on inner guidence and connection to spirit, plus she's funny and easy going. As usual, I often get information that's good for me to hear from listening to what answers the callers are getting.

HAY HOUSE I CAN DO IT CONFERENCE, TAMPA 2011

The Mind, Body, Soul Retreat

I Can Do It I've been to a I Can Do It Conference and it was phenomenal. I highly reccommend attending this. There were too many choices really, but that was also what made it so great. The Hay House authors, who are some of our greatest current spiritual teachers, not only give workshops, but also get together and have wonderful informative discussions at the live Hay House Radio shows that happen right there at the conference. It was very energizing, uplifting and fun.

The I Can Do It Conference gives you the opportunity to relax and enjoy a forum where each speaker offers the opportunity for spiritual and body enlightenment. There are a variety of conference packages available for every budget including Full Conference and Special One-Day Only packages. Experience I Can Do It! for a day or the weekend and attend lectures from over 35 of your favorite authors. From health, nutrition, and wellness to psychics and dream interpretation, this event will energize your mind, body and spirit. Plus, save 50% on a Pre-Conference Workshop with the purchase of a Full Conference Pass!

GRATITUDE

Practicing gratitude works

Practicing gratitude is an important part of enabling the Law of Attraction to work for you, and it has the added bonus of making you feel good as you do it. The Law of Attraction is all about thoughts attracting the things, feelings and situations that you desire. A key action toward attracting what you desire is allowing yourself to be in the head/heart space to receive it. Practicing gratitude has helped me make great strides toward prolonged happiness and gaining the positive energy to attract the things I desire for myself.
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The practice of gratitude is simple. You can think about the things you are grateful for or you can write them down. I find that my thoughts stay stronger in my mind when I write them down, so I have a gratitude journal. Start with something simple like, "I am grateful the sun is shining today" or "I am grateful the rain is watering my garden". No matter what is going on, it is always possible to find something to be grateful about. Once you start writing things down, they just keep coming. I will write a page or two of things I am grateful for and by the time I am done I always feel better than when I started. Often I feel amazingly joyful.

Once I got the knack for practicing gratitude in a general way about the good things in my life, I started getting more specific and forward thinking. In other words, I started being grateful for the things I want. "I am so grateful I am learning how to do my job better and I am making more money as a result", "I am so grateful I have been watching and learning from the Dog Whisperer and our puppy is growing up to be a good dog" and "I am so grateful I know to ask the universe for the things I want in my life".

The act of practicing gratitude allows you to open up to having more of the things you are grateful for and it brings you happiness and even joy as you do it. Since you are feeling appreciative for what you have, you are no longer dwelling on what you don't have. It puts your mind and your heart in a positive place, which allows even more good feeling, happy making things to flow to you.

All the Law of Attraction gurus talk about the need to feel as if you already have the thing you are wanting to attract and are very grateful and happy about it. Imagining having the thing or being in the experience and really enjoying it is a sure way to get yourself there and gratitude acts as a boost to your creative attracting energy.

PODCASTS AND RADIO SHOWS

List of links to great podcasts and radio shows

sale shadesI have found podcasts really helpful on my journey these last couple of years and have compiled a list for you of my favorites. I look through each podcasts list of shows and pick and choose the titles that sound interesting to me. If I really like the podcast then I subscribe to it. Most shows have a long list of good archives.
Podcasting Your Way To Enlightenment
Over the last three years or so, I have learned immeasurable, uplifting and empowering information from listening to podcasts and podcasted radio shows. In this website I list and link to the major sites that I have found to have the most current spiritual, transformational, metaphysical, scientific and environmentals teachers on our planet today.

I also give tips on how to use Itunes to find and listen to these enlightening shows
Law of Attraction Talk Radio
The Radio Show That is Changing the World. Where NY Times Bestselling Authors and Quantum Physics come together to bring a better understanding of spirituality and collective consciousness to create a better life and beautiful world.
Sounds True, Insights At The Edge with Tami Simon
This is one of my favorite podcasts. Tami Simon is an amazing interviewer and she has some of the leading edge spiritual thinkers and writers from her publishing company, Sounds True, on her show. I look forward to her show every week and highly reccommend listening.
The Power Within You with Kathleen Graham
"The Power Within You is an uplifting empowering series devoted to sharing the principles of the Law of Attraction with those who wish to obtain a more joyous, abundant, prosperous life. You are the creator of your life and only you have the ability to obtain your own true happiness."
- Kathleen F. Graham, personal professional coach
EFT Talk on Itunes
Good Vibrations through EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and Law of Attraction with hosts Carol Look and Rick Wilkes.
They go through and give examples for different issues that you can release with the use of EFT.

HAPPINESS

Happiness is the key

I just wanted to say a little something about happiness since I have been learning a lot about my own lately. In the Abraham-hicks book, Ask and it is Given they said that all we have to do as humans is to learn to be happy. Given how many people in the world are unhappy, learning how to be happy seems to be a very good goal. I also think that once one is feeling happy, it is all that much easier to feel confident in your ablilty to continue to create your own happiness.

KimmieWhat I have learned is that I alone am responsible for my own happiness. and I alone create my unhappiness. Learning what I do to make myself unhappy, and then unlearning those habits has made such a difference in my life.

The first most helpful thing I learned was that it is not what others are doing that makes me unhappy, it is how I am thinking about what they are doing that makes me unhappy. It is also about how I am thinking about myself.

The second most helpful thing I learned was that I can actually change how I'm thinking. It takes a little work sometimes, especially with very habitual thoughts, but it totally can be done. I have changed my thinking about many things and expect this to be a continual process throughout my life. Recognizing that I have control over the way I think about what I experience was revolutionary for me.

As I am becoming happier in my life all the other things are falling into place, thus creating more happiness and joy. I am more interested in the possibilities before me. I am more excited about the projects I undertake. I am creating and experiencing more of the life I have imagined is possible.

The books that I have listed in this lens and at Wake Robin Bookshop, as well as the podcasts and writing have really been helpful in those times when I am unhappy. They have helped me to see what is going on in my mind and how a whole life of programming by others had worked to keep me unaware of who I really was and who I want to be. Now I feel I truly am on the path to happiness. I have come to think that enlightenment is being happy and joyful in this life and is entirely possible for anyone to achieve.

Another thing I read in one or more of the books is that when you are feeling happiness, joy and love, that is when you have your closest connection to God/The Source of all that is. They have said that love is what God is. How many times have you heard God is love? As God is generally known as The Creator, then it could be logical to believe that when we are joyful and feeling love, we are at our strongest ability to create. When we create with love and joy in our hearts and are at our closest connection to God, everything we do from this place is tapped into the power of all life's energy. We can know that not only are we beautiful and powerful creators ourselves, we are leading ourselves toward our own awakening and evolution.

LINKS TO WEBSITES

Websites of writers and podcasters that have been very helpful in my Awakening

Columbia Gorgehese are websites of the authors and podcasters that have been very helpful to me along the way.
Hay House Publishing
This website has all the Hay House authors that I have been reading and their books and products, as well as Hay House Radio. Hay House Radio shows feature these authors and interviews with many of the great new thinkers.
Flowdreaming with Summer McStravick
I listen to Summers podcast quite a bit. Her Flowdreaming technique (not meditation) helps one get into a very postive mindset for attracting the life you desire
Angel Therapy
This is Doreen Virtue's website. I listen to her Angel Therapy podcast (which is also a live readio show on Hay House Radio) a lot, because I like the things she says to her callers and I have liked thinking about the angels out there ready and willing to help us.
Gangaji
Gangaji is a spiritual teacher whose books I stumbled upon at Powell's. I learned about her from a book titled Surpised By Grace by Amber Terrell. Gangaji's words in this book was really helped me to calm down and feel more peaceful. She's all about stopping and recognizing the moment.
Echart Tolle
I have been listening to Eckhart and Oprah's webinar on my Ipod and I really respect and enjoy what he has to say. He has a nice website with lots of good information. Check out the Dear Echart tab under the Eckhart section.
The Law of Attraction Toolkit
This is Kathleen Graham's website. I haven't actually gotten her toolkit, but I like her podcast which a lot about The Sedona Method of releasing old stuff that's holding you up. She has a lot of good information on her sight.
Law of Attraction Talk Radio
This is Jewels Robinson's website who hosts Law Of Attraction Talk Radio which I download through Itunes. She sounds a little bit like someones grandma, kind of sweet, and she interviews a lot of very interesting people. Her site has a lot of good informationa and she does these world peace meditations that are very cool.
EFT talk
We want to help you feel good REALLY GOOD! Tapping into the power of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and combining it with the intentional use of the Law of Attraction, you can shift your vibration from feelings of powerlessness, anger, frustration, overwhelm, and stress to hope, optimism, happiness, confidence, and gratitude.

They have links on their website to EFT instructions with a pressure point map, that you can reference to join along in their EFT on air sessions.
The Sedona Method
The Sedona Method is a unique, elegant, simple-to-master and very powerful tool that enables you to uncover your natural ability to "let go" of painful, unwanted, counterproductive feelings in the moment, before the negative feelings can do their damage to your inner peace, happiness, stability, relationships, goals and success.
It consists of a very easy-to-follow process that leads you to a profound awareness of what you are feeling in the moment, and that gently guides you into the experience of letting all your negative, self-sabotaging feelings go.
Gary Renard
Gary Renard is the author of Disappearance Of The Universe and Your Immortal Reality. He might be considered to be a bit out there for the way in which he recieved his information, but I really like the teaching he shares about A Couse In Miracles and regarding forgiveness. I very much like his cd series Secrets of the Immortal.
SOUNDSTRUE
This site has and incredible catalog of spiritually and new thought oriented CD's and DVD's. They also have very good sale prices.
A.R.E
This is the site of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. They also have a great catalog of spiritual and new thought books and CD's and a place where you can order astrological charts of all kinds. Sometimes they have 2 for 1 sales on the charts.
Colette Baron-Reid
I saw Colette at the Hay House I Can Do It conference in Las Vegas in June. I really liked what she had to say and her audience readings were very interesting and seemed to be right on. Collette has a great website with free daily oracle readings, meditation downloads and a discussion forum. Her products like her oracle cards and books are also available, as well as some of her music(she has a great voice).
Gregg Braden
For more than 20 years, Gregg has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. To date, his work has led to such paradigm-shattering books as The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, The Divine Matrix, his most recent, The Spontaneous Healing Of Belief.

I have listen to a number of interviews with him and he is always very interesting and inspiring. I recently heard him speak at The Hay House I Can Do It Conference and he gave real and exciting hope for our future in his discussion of The Global Coherence Project. It's about linking up people from all over the world to focus on the intention of having global peace.
Sutree's Affirmations
I just made another web page of affirmations I developed for myself and my own intentions for this life. I'm certain I will be adding to them, as I get new ideas all the time about what I want to create for myself. Check it out.
For Heaven's Sake
When I asked Sheri how she would describe what she does, she said "I talk to dead people." Below is a more detailed description of what Sheri does. She is here on my link list because I personally went to see her and it was an amazing experience. I highly recommend contacting her if you are curious or serious about wanting to talk with loved ones who have passed over.

Would you like to know if there are any messages for you from the Other Side? - Would you like to talk with someone specific who has crossed over? - Are you curious about your past lives, animal totems, angels or guides? - Do you need special advice on relationships or help problem-solving issues in your life? - Or perhaps you just want to learn the truth about the "other side" - maybe seeking reassurance regarding where we go when we die? Sheri is here To Help You!
Reconnective Healing
This site is about Reconnective Healing and about myself becoming a Reconnective Healing Practitioner. You will find lots of information about this new form of energy healing and how I got in to this new work.
A Messge Of Awakening
This is an introduction to The Seventh Major Understanding - A Message of Awakening.

This message serves as a guide for humanity as we transition from a reality based in fear to a global experience of peace, love and abundance. The time for change is now, and humankind is ready.

The source of The Seventh Major Understanding is Joshua, a non-corporeal entity. His focus is on oneness, and he often reminds us of our constant connection to the Source of All That Is.

GETTING RID OF THE BARRIERS BLOCKING YOU

Changing your story and losing your control dramas

Being "stuck in our story" and having "control dramas" are two ways that we prevent ourselves from fully realizing what we want in our lives. Experiencing our lives through the limiting veils of stories we believe are truth prevents us from being able to increase our awareness in the world and truly experiencing the well lived and enjoyable life I believe is possible for everyone.

ferris wheelThe first time I ever read about a person who was "stuck in their story", it struck a chord with me because I know I have been there too. Being stuck in one's story is living a life that is defined by the story. Either our parents or family or spouses have told us who they think we are and we believed them. We may have experienced hard times, or even traumas, that have greatly affected how we interact with the world. Because of these experiences, our story won't let us trust others. It makes us feel insecure or have a lot of fear about doing the everyday things in life. We might be very angry because of our story, either because we think life hasn't given us what we want or life has put terrible things before us. It might feel like we are just spinning our wheels.

In the Celestine Prophecy, the people talk about the "control drama". They say that we all have a control dramas directing how we relate to the people in our lives. These control dramas are created in our childhood based on how our parents treated us, how they acted and by what they told us about who we were. The Celestine Prophecy describes control dramas and how we live our lives trying to control our interactions with others to fit with the story we were told in childhood. At times we may try to have power over others to boost our own sense of power, which often entails psycically sucking the energy out of the other person. Sometimes we give our power away, resulting in a feeling of lack or "poor me". Another way we control our interactions is to remain aloof so that we don't have to feel or be affected by anything.

Reading The Four Agreements , The Voice of Knowledge, Home with God and Surprised by Grace have helped me to become aware of my own control dramas and the stories I have gotten stuck in. I learned how fearful, angry and aloof I've been and was able to realize that this is not how I wanted to live. These books have given me the tools for change and for my own transformation toward living my life in peace and happiness with self-confidence and excitement about my future and the future of our physcial world.

QUOTABLES

These are some great quotes I've happened upon along the way

St Johns bridgeMORGAN FREEMAN,from the Bucket List. The question asked at the pearly gates- "Did you find joy in your life? Did you bring joy into others lives?"

SIGN AT A CHURCH- "He who angers you controls you."

SANDRA ANN TAYLOR- "If you apreciate your life, your life will apreciate in value."

"Happiness is the emotion of apreciation and it is the most magnetic energy, along with self honoring that you can project, ever."

SONIA CHOQUETTE - "Grace is the energy that flows when you feel love in your heart and compassion for others."

PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA - "Through meditation I will stop the storm of breath, mental restlessness and sensory disturbances raging over the lake of my mind. Through prayer and meditation i will harness my will and activity to the right goal."

DOREEN VIRTUE - "When you focus on peace as your highest goal, you have the highest magnification of manifestation energy. Everything comes to you".

SUMMER MCSTRAVICK - "God seeks Diversity".

"The more connected you are to the great moving flow of energy, the more you feel the creative force of God".

ECKHART TOLLE - "The consciousness is moving through this form".

"Non-attachment, Non-judgement and non resistance are the keys to good conscious living"

"Cnce you see the transcience and changibilty of the world, you can enjoy the moments while they last with out fear of loss or anxiety about the future."

"You can enjoy life more fully knowing that nothing is going to last."

"The only actions that don't have opposing re-actions or resistance, are those aimed for the good of all".

GARY RENARD - "Atonement means 'A course correction in the universe', a correction in seperation (from God) and a return to wholeness (with God).
At-one-ment".

"Seek not to change the world, seek to change your mind about the world."

"Fear binds the world and forgiveness sets it free."

"The vision of Christ is to be able to look upon a body and see the light that is of God within the body."

ANONYMOUS - "Anything you resist persisits."

GANGIJI - "What seperates you from your innate fulfillment? Nothing. Nothing but your thinking, feelings, fears and judgements."

"You are that which animates the body."

A COURSE IN MIRACLES - "Thus is your healing everything the world requires, that it may be healed. The resurection of the world awaits your healing and your happiness, that you may demonstrate the healing of the world"

or as GHANDI put it - "Be the change you want to see."

Susan Gregg - "We are a diamond in the rough and life is something you bump up against to polish all those facets of ourselves".

Marianne Williams - "God is the electricity and we are the light bulbs".

MY BLOG - CONNECTING POINT

Below is a link to get you to my blog.

I am repurposing this blog to be a place where we can connect to share our visions of what our dreams for the future of our world. In order to transform our world to one that benefits all life we need a vision of what that looks like. I am dedicating this blog to those visions we create for ourselves, our families, our communities and our continued future in which all life thrives

Click here to get to my new blog: CONNECTING POINT

LAW OF ATTRACTION TV

I produced a Community TV show on The Law of Attraction

Sutree on CameraI wanted to share the Law of Attraction with as many people as I could, for free, through television. It was my goal for the show that the Law of Attraction be clearly defined and made understandable to the viewers. I also wanted to be able to show the logic of the Law of Attraction, noting the very simple steps everyone can take to bring good things and happiness into their lives and to achieve their dreams. Ultimately, I wanted to support our human evolution toward a peaceful and more joyful world. I envision a world where we understand our personal impact and our connection to the people around us - in a way that allows us to really create and appreciate the love and beauty available.

The show was be an hour long round table type discussion of the Law of Attraction by members of the community who have been involved with the Law of Attraction, both as teachers, or guides, and personally for their own enlightenment. They talked about what the Law of Attraction means to them and how it works in their lives and communities.

There was an audience of interested people who participated in a question and answer session after the discussion.

Note:
There were actually two shows taped and they were broadcast through the facilities of Portland Community Media. The taping of the shows was April 25, 2007. They played a number of times on Portland Community Media Channels and I am now working on editing it into a one hour show to re-air it and also to put it on the internet. It's a learning process to make that happen, so I'll let you know as soon as we have.

THE MAKING OF LAW OF ATTRACTION TV

We did it! These photos are from the taping of Law of Attraction TV, Conversations Part 1 and 2. I will also be posting the videos online. Watch for a link to view the full shows! If you want one of the photos to download, just click on it and it will take you to Barrie's Flickr site.

curated content from Flickr

READER FEEDBACK, RECCOMENDATIONS, REVIEWS, GRATITUDES, ETC.

Thanks to all of you who left comments before in my other guestbooks. I've decided to consolidate all the guestbooks into this one.

-LEAVE A COMMENT ABOUT THE SITE.

-EXPRESS YOUR GRATITUDE.

-LET US KNOW YOUR VISION FOR OUR WORLD.

-REVIEW A BOOK YOU LOVE

-RECCOMEND A WEBSITE, PODCAST, OR WELL BEING PRODUCT

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IN MEMORIUM

Our Little Kimmie

kimmie sleepingI am sad to say we lost our little dog Kimmie suddenly last April and she is greatly missed. I like to think of her happy in doggie park heaven and hanging out with mom, with whom she spent the first part of her life.

SPECIAL THANKS

A special thanks to Barrie who provided all of the photos on this lens, helped me get my Squidoo feet wet and continues to help when I update! Click on the links below to see more great photos.
Barrie's Squidoo site
This Barrie's Squidoo page on Disney World. It's got lots of great information, links and photos of Disney World.
BARRIE BREWER PHOTOGRAPHY
This is Barrie's photography website where you can see all of her great photos of her favorite places, people and things.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Links to get you back to the part of this page you want

  1. BEYOND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
  2. THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IN A NUTSHELL
  3. FORGIVENESS
  4. RESOURCE BOOKSTORE
  5. AS I AM
  6. HAY HOUSE RADIO
  7. HAY HOUSE I CAN DO IT CONFERENCE, TAMPA 2011
  8. GRATITUDE
  9. PODCASTS AND RADIO SHOWS
  10. HAPPINESS
  11. LINKS TO WEBSITES
  12. GETTING RID OF THE BARRIERS BLOCKING YOU
  13. QUOTABLES
  14. MY BLOG - CONNECTING POINT
  15. LAW OF ATTRACTION TV
  16. THE MAKING OF LAW OF ATTRACTION TV
  17. READER FEEDBACK, RECCOMENDATIONS, REVIEWS, GRATITUDES, ETC.
  18. IN MEMORIUM
  19. SPECIAL THANKS

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