Another Secret Book
August 5, 2008
Usually I read on the treadmill. Today, I read in the sun in my backyard. The temperature in Portland Oregon was in the mid-90's at 5pm. I love how the temperature keeps rising, sometimes into the evening. I had until 5:45pm to read Marc Allen's new book THE GREATEST SECRET OF ALL, because I wanted to head out for a dance class then. Personal, powerful, bright easy writing.
Marc tells of being a complete screw-up until the day he turned thirty, and opened his business, New World Library with Shakti Gawain. She has this open, easy, wise way about her. I interviewed her a dozen years ago in a quirky Portland hotel.
What struck me as I read -- yes, making your dreams come true is possible. How do you do that, when you have to plow through trauma? For the past year I have been excavating the patterns that developed from beliefs about myself -- that began as thoughts when I was a small child -- through a magical process called EMDR -- eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. I pushed myself back through the rapes, and instead of floating away or imagining that was normal or deciding something untrue,like 'that was what I deserved'...my body released the pain, I screamed and cried, and the beliefs changed. At the same time, I was lucky enough to win a spot in a positive program called HeartSpark, by Susan Clark. We told our stories when we first met, and through an amazing and heartfelt process learned our own personal patterns that work for us. Mine is magic. In a word. This is my full pattern: "I am a confident impresario of spiritual connections, living a limitless magic life with openhearted faith and intuition, inspiring others through my stories, support, patience and dreams."
Marc's book is the third big piece. You have to have a dream. A plan. This multi-millionaire who takes Mondays off and doesn't do email at home, who started penniless at age thirty, created it all on that thirtieth birthday. He wrote an ideal scene of what he would want his life to be in five years -- and then he wrote pages of goals and affirmations from that vision. And to free up that fearful part of the brain, Marc always used these words with each goal: "in an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way." There was a one-page plan for every goal, and the final way to manifest your dreams, Marc says, is to simply take action.
I'll go back through the book again, this time doing each step he suggests. I've got my vision board in the living room, too, because the mind creates reality from images, it attracts what you say you want, recognizes it, energizes it. It's fun to focus on the magic. For example, the time I finished reading THE GREATEST SECRET OF ALL...? 5:44pm. Perfect timing. Magical! And I was early enough for my class to find my favorite spot in the front row, and danced my heart out.
Usually I read on the treadmill. Today, I read in the sun in my backyard. The temperature in Portland Oregon was in the mid-90's at 5pm. I love how the temperature keeps rising, sometimes into the evening. I had until 5:45pm to read Marc Allen's new book THE GREATEST SECRET OF ALL, because I wanted to head out for a dance class then. Personal, powerful, bright easy writing.
Marc tells of being a complete screw-up until the day he turned thirty, and opened his business, New World Library with Shakti Gawain. She has this open, easy, wise way about her. I interviewed her a dozen years ago in a quirky Portland hotel.
What struck me as I read -- yes, making your dreams come true is possible. How do you do that, when you have to plow through trauma? For the past year I have been excavating the patterns that developed from beliefs about myself -- that began as thoughts when I was a small child -- through a magical process called EMDR -- eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. I pushed myself back through the rapes, and instead of floating away or imagining that was normal or deciding something untrue,like 'that was what I deserved'...my body released the pain, I screamed and cried, and the beliefs changed. At the same time, I was lucky enough to win a spot in a positive program called HeartSpark, by Susan Clark. We told our stories when we first met, and through an amazing and heartfelt process learned our own personal patterns that work for us. Mine is magic. In a word. This is my full pattern: "I am a confident impresario of spiritual connections, living a limitless magic life with openhearted faith and intuition, inspiring others through my stories, support, patience and dreams."
Marc's book is the third big piece. You have to have a dream. A plan. This multi-millionaire who takes Mondays off and doesn't do email at home, who started penniless at age thirty, created it all on that thirtieth birthday. He wrote an ideal scene of what he would want his life to be in five years -- and then he wrote pages of goals and affirmations from that vision. And to free up that fearful part of the brain, Marc always used these words with each goal: "in an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way." There was a one-page plan for every goal, and the final way to manifest your dreams, Marc says, is to simply take action.
I'll go back through the book again, this time doing each step he suggests. I've got my vision board in the living room, too, because the mind creates reality from images, it attracts what you say you want, recognizes it, energizes it. It's fun to focus on the magic. For example, the time I finished reading THE GREATEST SECRET OF ALL...? 5:44pm. Perfect timing. Magical! And I was early enough for my class to find my favorite spot in the front row, and danced my heart out.
Labels: books, dance, EMDR, Heartspark, Marc Allen, New World Library, Shakti Gawain, Susan Clark
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