What sings to your soul? What is your passion? I talk to people every day, who are reaching into their hearts, to find the joy, the passion that they know lives inside of them. Giving up is easy. Anyone and everyone can do that, and most do. Check in with yourself for some honest answers. Listen to your heart. Be brave, live courageously by living the life you came here to live.
“The potential hidden within each of us is staggering. Shed the old layers. Devote yourself to something of value that sings to the passion in your soul. Now you become the master of your destiny.”
-Debra Oakland
People want to be happy. It’s that simple. It all starts with you, not “out there” in the world. There is nothing that will make you happy for long, or satisfy you, if you are not happy inside. Take some time to connect with what brings you joy. Happiness is infectious, joy expands only when you are ready to embrace it. Be a willing participant. Become the master of your destiny.
Jamie Oliver’s TED prize talk, makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. Jamie spoke at TED2010 this February in Long Beach, CA for 22 minutes, about the state of world health, or rather the lack of it. Jamie is reaching out globally, with courage and passion.
Remember the shaggy-haired “Naked Chef” of late-’90s? One of my favorite cooking shows back then. Jamie was courageous, raw, and was passionate about food. I became a fan. He has built a worldwide media conglomerate of TV shows, books, cookware and magazines. His idea of sharing unpretentious food with friends and family, was refreshing to me. Everyone gets to play in the kitchen.
Jamie now has Fifteen Foundation’s. He has trained young chefs from challenged backgrounds to run four of his restaurants. He visits schools to teach children to grow organic gardens of their own, and for their school time meals. Jamie’s School Dinner, Ministry of Food and Food Revolution USA combine Oliver’s culinary tools, cookbooks and television, with serious activism and community organizing — to create change on both the individual and governmental level.
I wanted to introduce you to Kimberly Schneider, The Manifestation Maven, who I had the pleasure of meeting recently. Kimberly is the creator of The Cornucopia Method of Manifestation™, a powerful and proven 5-step process that has helped thousands of people all over North America create more of what they want and less of what they don’t in their lives. I love Kimberly’s comfortable manner, while relaying very valuable information.
A former trial attorney and psychotherapist, Kimberly especially likes working with live audiences. She specializes in “5-minute life makeovers” because a few minutes are often all she needs to identify limiting beliefs and communicate them in a compassionate yet direct, lively and compelling manner.
Kimberly facilitates www.ManifestationMastermind.com, a teleseminar coaching program, and works with select high-level business coaching clients in her Alchemy of Business, VIP Map a Business in a Day and Day of Transformation coaching programs.
A poet, dancer, world traveler, spiritual adventurer and business alchemist, she lives in the St. Louis area with her husband, two kids and two cats. Kimberly has two extraordinary children, one of whom has special needs.
Mike Prysner tells of his feelings during the war, how the war woke him up to the truth of what is really going on. This video is amazing, to say the least. It took great courage for Mike to speak out. This video touched my heart to the core. Please share this with others who believe we can all live in courage.
“Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it’s profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it’s profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us.”
- Mike Prysner
I was thinking about the power of imagination, and what it can do for everyone who chooses to use it. Your imagination is your workshop. There is nothing to limit you in any way. As an added bonus, it’s FREE! The best things in life really are free. There is a feeling of empowerment attached to creating anything you can imagine. To being limitless. Don’t you find yourself getting excited just thinking about it? I know I do. As children we use our imagination endlessly, sometimes re-running the same sequences over and over in our minds. We felt inspired and alive, believing in possibility. Anticipation and expectation filled our beings.
Spending time creating in your imagination, puts you in contact with powerful invisible forces. Be fearless. This is a safe place for you to spend quality time. Create, relax and enjoy anything you can dream of. Image something formless into form by visualizing in your minds eye. Your emotions are brought into action which creates feeling. This makes you receptive. You can choose to use this constructively, or destructively, so choose wisely. Free will belongs to you, as does the power of concentration. If you have created patterns in your life that you would like to reverse, visit your workshop to create the life you want.
As you continue spending time in your workshop, you will find your life shifting. What you focus on expands, creating manifestations in the outer world. Your inner world gives you a place to make choices and decisions, regarding your life. You are connected to the higher source of all your good, to infinite intelligence, from all time and space. Focus like a laser beam on the expected results. And most of all, have fun creating.
Each and every person is connected by a common bond. We are ONE. Everyone matters. This video aired during NBC’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Friday, February 12th 2010. The recording took place on February 1st, 2010, in the same studio as the original 25 years earlier. “We Are The World 25 For Haiti“, in which Jones and Richie serve as executive producers and producers with many other collaborators, to benefit the Haitian earthquake relief efforts and the rebuilding of Haiti.
The 25th Anniversary recording features over 80 artists and performers.
Many acts of courage have occurred since the earthquake in Haiti, and great generosity has been extended to the people there. The contributions have come in many forms. Like the song says, let’s make a better day, just you and me. Every day citizens – everybody pitching in. Now that is Living in Courage!
When you tap into your Inner Power Source, you will find courage at the center. This “source” of who you truly are, fears nothing. The less evolved self, or the little “I” can live in fear and doubt. It really is time to stop this bondage of our spirit, by living from the inside out. Living from the outside in, is an old game most of us are tired playing. It has been exhausting. No one ever wins, and the game never ends. Let’s create a new game. One in which we all win by supporting each other. When one wins, we all win. Games are supposed to be fun!
If you are of a mind set that someone has to lose, in order for someone to win, open your mind to a new way of thinking. Courage speaks the language of “I Can – I Will.” Say “Yes to Life” and you will find life saying yes to you. Doubt and fear must be removed from the game of life, before courage can act in it’s full empowerment. What will you replace fear and doubt with?
Love and Light
Courage and Hope
Joy and Harmony
Wisdom and Confidence
Unity and Grace
Peace and Joy
Abundance and Opulence
Health and Wellbeing
Single Minded Purpose and Clarity
Make your own list. Everyone has different dreams and goals. Really think about what you want. Why do you fear what you fear? Is what you fear true? What steps can you take to release the fear or doubt? Ask yourself some powerful questions. Use courage when looking into the face of fear. Fear is a weakling, and only holds the power you give it. By living from the inside out, you are not giving your power away. By choosing to create a miraculous life, you will expand.
Work with the principles of life that are your true nature. Play the game of life to win. Courageously maneuver yourself into a power position. As you become an expert at playing the game of life, become a messenger, a teacher to others. When you bring people into your game, they will learn that no one needs to lose. That is one of the purposes of the game. You will be able to provide your fellow players with insight, and encouragement. They will receive invaluable wisdom into how to play the game of life, where everyone wins. Inspire greatness in yourself, share it, and people will pass it on.
“The Meadow” Is a novel about love, that covers many thousands of years. A Tale of undying and eternal love, demonstrating the interconnectedness of the Universe through the expression of two people who live many lives over thousands of years. The authors Mike O’Hare and Elfreda Pretorius come from different continents and knew nothing about each others existence. Details of their story is below, and reads like a novel itself. I encourage you to read this amazing book of intrigue, meaning of life, eternal love , spirituality, mystery, sex and much more. Talk about Living in Courage!
Overview of The Meadow
The Meadow is a passport into other worlds, allowing the reader to travel to ancient destinations whilst remaining in the safety and comfort of an arm chair. Philosophically, it is a tale of the struggle between Light and Dark, personified in two root characters that meet and fall in love in antiquity, only to discover that life is imperfect and far too short.
The tale of The Meadow assumes that we slip through the trapdoor of death to live again and again to continue experiencing the magnificent spectrum of emotions and polarities of more lives which enable us to grow spiritually, mentally and emotionally. Precisely how the soul is molded over eons into a sentient being with the ability to feel and experience is a closely guarded secret of Creation. Yet, there are instances of refined consciousness, capable of traversing heavenly realms, which have discovered the Meadow, ingeniously hidden in the astral level or Middle Place. The story of Teuch and Anacaona’s love is woven around just such a concept, daring the reader to delve into the possibility that all is not as it seems and that we bear a solemn responsibility to live our lives in as much consciousness as we are capable of.
Swathed in primordial mystery, the story blazes a trail through four devastating lives and personalities, from ancient Mexica to contemporary Pakistan, before luring the lead characters into the twenty first century, where we meet them as Steve Ballantire and Eva Norman. But they do not arrive here alone. Obsessed with revenge many centuries old, their nemesis, representing the Dark side, is in hot pursuit of the protagonists.
The intrigue intensifies when the British authorities express an interest in Hugo, the brilliant child of Eva, and snatches him and his mother from the clutches of ‘the evil one’ in Tel Aviv, to place him under the tutelage of Steve Ballantire, an esteemed professor based in North East England. Due to this intervention of MI6, the lead characters finally meet in this life. However, their fanatical adversary yet again follows them to England, leading to the devious abduction of Eva and resulting in a nerve-wracking international chase across the world; climaxing in the Himalaya Mountains. It is here where a small, but remarkable monk begins to lead the story back to its roots in antiquity, and the boundaries of time are finally erased. Inevitably, ancient identities of past eras emerge into full awareness to force the final cosmic showdown.
Steeped in symbolism and mystery, Hugo, a mildly autistic savant, unravels the enigmas of the story and reveals his understanding of our universe being based in mathematics. The Tibetan monk and the boy independently confirm the existence of the celestial halfway house known as the Meadow, and this leads to Hugo locating star gates which demonstrate the absolute interconnectedness of everything.
