| "Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing | | | | miraculous. |
| can disturb your peace of mind." | | | | My inner work paid off as my sense of peace |
| This was the opening line to a poem that I read | | | | and feeling good was decreasingly affected by |
| everyday when I was in my twenties. Today, the | | | | circumstances outside of myself. Some would |
| Law of Attraction equivalent would be, "there's | | | | refer to this as feeling empowered or being in |
| nothing more important than feeling good." | | | | your power. Whatever it was, I liked it! I felt |
| Decades before the LOA became popular I | | | | connected. |
| became a master of PMA---positive mental | | | | Nothing could take away my peace of mind. |
| attitude. Just find that silver lining and you can get | | | | Relatively nothing and when I wavered from this |
| through anything! | | | | sense of strength I now had a little repertoire of |
| I learned that the way to feel good was by | | | | tools, techniques and even a team of others to |
| maintaining my peace of mind. My bullet proof | | | | call upon to help me reconnect with this source of |
| strategy was to feel very little of anything at all. I | | | | inner strength. |
| didn't realize the limitations of this subconscious | | | | Why bother with all of this? Because the benefits, |
| approach until well into my 30's following a highly | | | | besides a genuine desire to be fully present in the |
| traumatic experience that made happy thoughts a | | | | moment, were totally off the charts of my |
| thing of the past. I didn't have the tools to deal | | | | expectations. |
| with real life. | | | | Clearing the channels of receptivity from the |
| For a quarter of a century my ability to "buck | | | | debris of pain and suffering and their |
| up," "shut down" and "just do it," worked | | | | accompanying frequencies (some call this |
| beautifully. My defense mechanisms, which | | | | baggage) enabled me to manifest or attract my |
| appeared to be such a good thing---you're always | | | | intentions in an almost effortless way. I didn't |
| so positive!---were really a glorified facade for a | | | | realize the connection until I read Joe Vitale's |
| heavy suit of armor that limited my capacity to | | | | Spiritual Marketing in which he states, "Clean the |
| feel connected to Source or anyone else. | | | | energy pathways and you can have, do or be |
| Thoroughly rejecting the Buddhist philosophy that | | | | anything your want." |
| life is suffering and determined to be free of pain, | | | | Far and above the pleasure that accompanies |
| I committed myself to doing whatever it would | | | | material possessions is the joy and gratitude |
| take to feel good again and it wasn't just the pain | | | | inherent in living in an almost perpetual state of |
| that was debilitating, it was the anxiety I felt | | | | beauty and abundance. You too can enjoy this |
| from feeling all that aliveness! | | | | state of being when you cultivate the faith and |
| Living in Santa Barbara was such a blessing at this | | | | trust to release the pain of the past and fully |
| time since I was guided to working with those | | | | open to receive abundance. |
| whose healing abilities were nothing short of | | | | |