What if you woke up only to find you were asleep?
The difference between waking up and wondering where all the time went, and a full life hinges on awareness.  At least for me, it does..

I talk about the three elements of awareness, plus the wonderful inspiration of Anthony de Mello, Don Miguel Ruiz, Eldon Taylor and Peter Fenner.

Here is the suggested practice which is from Anthony de Mello's book "Awareness"

Identify the negative feelings in you

Understand that they are in you not in the world

Do no see them as part of your I (they come and go)

Understand that when you change, everything changes

Explore this further and see the video of Anthony de Mello.

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Robert Holden introduced me to the notion of there being a world of difference between the 'pursuit of happiness' and 'following your joy'. In the show I talk about Robert's work, the purpose of happiness, limits we place on our happiness and how and why we learned to be unhappy.  I read from Michael Neill's Feel Happy Now, and Barry Neil Kaufmans' To Love is To Be Happy With'.

Suggested exercise for this week:  Take your happiness temperature.  How happy are you on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being unreasonably joyous)?  Find a moment or two during the week when you consciously and deliberately raise your Happiness Thermometer just a bit. You don't have to aim for the moon!  And you don't need a reason.   Notice what it takes to do deliberately raise your level.

Want more ways to explore happiness?  Here's a few more exercises to open the mind and heart

If you want to talk more about how to be happier, let me know! 

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We all have explanations for why our lives are the way they are:  divorce, money fear, angry households growing up... all these things happen, but as years go by our history becomes the story of "I can't because..." Hear how to unravel your story and get free.

In this show I gave an exercise for revealing and tracing the links of your story.  To work with this more, please find the exercise in my blog post.

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Emotions and how to understand that those highs and lows are not in control of you. How to love and be happy no matter what is going on around you. 


The exercise from Mandy Evans' book, Travelling Free is as follows: - list your Top Twenty  Most Limiting Beliefs (listen to the show for the starting list of the All Time Most Popular Self-limiting Beliefs). Then ask yourself:
Why do I believe that?
What might happen if I didn't believe it?
Do I think it's true?
More in her book  and let me know how it goes!

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Ken Foster and I do an amazing show on key questions that are doorways to life-changing results.  What if just the right question and taking time to find an answer could unlock a sense of direction and a feeling of joy for you? Ken’s book "Ask and You Will Succeed" and more about Ken on www.asksucceed.com

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Byron Katie has one job: to teach people how to stop suffering. When Katie appears, lives change.

In 1986, at the bottom of a ten-year fall into depression, anger, and addiction, Byron Katie woke up one morning and realized that all suffering comes from believing our thoughts. Questioning every painful thought she had, she developed an amazing method of inquiry she called The Work.

The Work asks four simple questions that turn stressful thoughts around. When you Work with a thought, you see around it to the choices beyond suffering.

Katie has been bringing The Work to millions around the world for more than twenty years. Her free public events, weekend workshops, nine-day School for the Work, and 28-day residential Turnaround House bring liberation to people everywhere.

Her School for the Work takes place twice a year.
Call 1 800 98 KATIE (52843 or go to www.thework.com for more information

P.S. to really get the most of the this hour live with Katie, I do recommend downloading and doing the Judge Your Neighbor Worksheet from Katie's site.

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What a treat to welcome one of the most well-loved personalities in New Thought this week: Hay House Radio show producer and host of the show ‘Flowdreaming’, Summer McStravick.

For almost a decade, Summer has been working with the energetic context of life that she calls The Flow. Summer says, “Being in the Flow means that your life is flowing in a general direction that is for your highest good and happiness.”

Summer and I will talk about how you can use her techniques to get into your flow… and of course, it’s all about what’s possible for you from that place.  

In addition to her work with the Flow, Summer is the network director of HayHouseRadio.com, and not only does she host her own show, she also deftly co-hosts a weekly show with Dr. Wayne Dyer.

You’ll find out more about Summer’s work and her numerous instructional CDs, books, and teleclasses on the links below. Just so you know, her next workshop is August 8-9,2009 for those who want to learn to practice flowdreaming.

www.flowdreaming.com

And on Hay House radio

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Author of the upcoming book, I AM: The Power of Discovering Who You Really Are is back for a deep dive into the powerful practices and discoveries he has written about as we rip the cover off the book (ok, manuscript) and talk about what it really takes to guide yourself as you navigate a life in the freedom zone.

We’ll explore the full range of your personal possibility to chose and to act, even when things are crumbling around you and why the ego is your friend...

More about Howard on www.truthserum.net

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Dr. Jonathan Ellerby, Spiritual Program Director for the highly acclaimed Canyon Ranch Health Resorts. He has spent more than 20 years in a personal, professional, and academic exploration of the vast realm of spirituality, healing, and consciousness. We discuss the wisdom of the ages against the backdrop of a modern world.

His book 'Return to the Sacred: Ancient Pathways to Spiritual Awakening' –  is both a guidebook to finding the spiritual path and a collection of colorful stories from Dr. Ellerby's extensive travels and spiritual journeys.

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Join Elese and Bill Cumming, as they talk with 5 alumni about the life-changing moments they experienced during and after completing the "What One Person Can Do" conversation. Hear the potent stories of how life is transformed when you change your thinking, live out of your ground of being, and approach all people from a place of unconditional love. The program is called "What One Person Can Do" because the well-being of the planet is a function of the well-being of those who inhabit it. The capacity to be at peace and contribute mightily to the world in which we live resides within all people. The only question is ACCESS. Find out how those who participated in this program had the profound personal and direct experience of accessing their own innate capacity.

"What One Person Can Do" is a unique experience-based learning environment consisting of a 12-week 'conversation' delivered as a teleclass or in person. There is also an interview with the Founder of this work, Bill Cumming, available on the website for download. Elese is a certified convener of "What One Person Can Do", and the next start dates are January 6th or 7th, meeting once a week by phone for one hour.

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