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(* Half Moon Book Review

September 1st, 2010

Welcome to my new “Half Moon Book Review!”

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I’ve been reading so many awesome books lately, I decided that I needed an official way in which to share my thoughts about them. Out of that need, the idea for this formed.

I must warn you all, if I pick up a book and am bored out of my skull by page 30, I DO put them down. I won’t power through a book and give a luke warm review. I will tell you that I stopped reading and why.

Some book just aren’t my cup of tea, as I’m sure you can ALL understand.

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Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle

Stillness Speaks

This was a wonderful book. I borrowed mine from the library for two weeks, renewed it and kept it for another two weeks, and have decided to just buy a copy of my own.

It doesn’t read like a book. It’s split up into small, easily digestible pieces that make a wonderful tool for the master and novice, alike.

Some “snippets” are only one or two lines and some are several paragraphs long, but they all bring a thought provoking message about the stillness within. About how to connect with that creative and perfect silence within you.

I’ll share one of my favorites from the book as an example.

That plant that you have in your home – have you ever truly looked at it? Have you allowed that familiar yet mysterious being we call “plant” to teach you it’s secrets? Have you noticed how deeply peaceful it is? How it’s surrounded by a field of stillness? The moment you become aware of a plant’s emanation of stillness and peace, that plant becomes your teacher.

I sat down in a comfy chair and read the entire book in about 3 hours. Then I started going through and reading one little “snippet” in the morning, and then another in the evening before bed. That is probably how I will continue on with it when my own copy arrives from Amazon.

I ♥ Amazon!

This is a seekers book for sure. I also want to add; This book doesn’t read like “Eckhart Tolle.” I’ve known some people that just couldn’t follow Tolle very well and preferred not to read his books. This book is split up in such a way that it’s a VERY easy read. I would recommend it to everyone, but most especially anyone who wants to try or is new to meditation. As you read each little part, and then contemplate the words, it becomes a meditation in and of itself.

I felt like this book was a demonstration of how becoming still in the mind isn’t necessarily about sitting cross-legged in the corner with your eyes closed. Stillness is everywhere just waiting for your mind to become still enough for you to become a witness.

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My affirmations until ….. ? I LOVE these 3!!!~
I AM a miracle in motion~ Only more miracles can come from me*
My words have power~ I will choose them wisely*
Wonderful new experiences give me wonderful new ways to express the divinity that I am*

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I’ll Keep You in My Prayers

August 31st, 2010

How many times have I heard someone say that? Probably thousands.

I have to wonder though, just what are they doing when they are keeping me in their prayers. How do they hold me in their prayers. What image do I take in their mind as they pray for me?

It’s occurred to me recently that the image one holds in their mind as they pray is probably more important than the actual prayer itself.

After I read the book Mirror Therapy back in July, I began doing this meditation. It’s not something from the book, but it uses things I learned about in the book.

So if you ever hear me say that I will pray for you… this is what you’re signing up for.

The basic premise is, once I go into a relaxed state, I see my “soul mirror,” which I’ve constructed in my own imagination and is unique to only me. When I look in my soul mirror, I see my soul looking back at me. Basically my soul looks exactly like me, only perfect. Glowing. Beautiful. Untouched. Unharmed. Ageless. Angelic even.

I imagine my soul looking back at me with complete love and acceptance, smiling with warmth. I send love and light into my soul mirror and my soul radiates love and light back at me.

Now, I choose another person. Someone whom I am wanting to “pray” for. I see their soul looking back at me from their own unique soul mirror. Just like mine, their soul looks like the perfect, ageless, beautiful, angelic Being that they truly are. They are smiling out at me with the same warmth and love as in my mirror. I behold the image of their beauty and perfection and once again send love and light into their mirror, bathing them in love. I feel the same energy radiating from their souls back to me.

I have come to believe that when Jesus walked through towns and healed people, it was a variation of THIS prayer that he used.

I’ve heard some current day gurus philosophize that the reason Jesus could heal people in that way was because he didn’t see the malady. He saw only the pure, perfect child of God that is the reality, and therefore by the laws of consciousness, the lesser vibration of the diseased had to rise and meet that of the healer. He literally injected them with love, light, and complete faith in their well-being.

My grandmother was rather ill a while back and I said I’d pray for her. How could I do her any good at all by holding the image of an ailing person in my mind and begging for her health. The first thing that comes to mind is that, you should always hold the image of what you want to see in your mind. So right there has me seeing her healthy. The second thing is, I would never request her healing or regained health. Those are back-words for disease. I asked that she maintain her healthy balance and be vibrant and happy.

Only I didn’t ask. I didn’t see her perfection in her mirror and say, “Dear God, please bring my grandma her healthy balance and make her vibrant and healthy.”

If I said that, I would be praying to a God that is outside of me. The divinity is within.

Within the act of SEEING her as who she TRULY is…. her SOUL… and seeing her in that perfect state of Being, the request exists. Only it’s not even a request, because to request something implies the possibility of the lack of fulfillment, but in praying this way, I find that there IS no possibility of lack of fulfillment. That IS her soul. It IS perfect and whole and the total sum of all she has the potential to be. It already IS fulfilled.

I believe that seeing the souls of the people I pray for and knowing that what I see, literally already IS sure amps up the “faith” part of the equation.

When I pray for you, I do not see what you could potentially be or have. I see a representation of the divine force within you, and encourage you to recognize it for yourself by projecting love to it and helping it grow.

*How do you pray?

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Weekend Book Love

July 23rd, 2010

Happy Friday!!

If you’re looking for some weekend reading, then boy do I have a book for you!

Clearing for the Millennium by Albert Clayton Gaulden

I was drawn to this book when I picked it up. It virtually jumped off the shelf at me. Okay, so it didn’t jump, but it WAS sticking out further than the others and grabbed my eye right away.

The first thing that held me captive was the tag line across the top, “We are all fallen angels.” I’ve been exploring the “fallen angel” concept lately as I’ve been reading A Course in Miracles.
The forward to the book is written by James Redfield (author of The Celestine Prophecy ~ Another book I LOVED!!) and the word “Sedona” is on the cover. Those points sealed the deal and into my bag this book went.

I experienced synchronicity after synchronicity while reading this book. It was an amazing angle on God, angels, the Universe, LOA, Spirituality, truth, integrity, authenticity, and psychological dysfunction.

Yes, it’s another Spiritually angled self help book, but yet, it’s not. It’s a story of His journey, of His path, of His realizations. It’s a story with the same aim as my telling of my own story. To help anyone on a similar path find their own way Home.

It’s also brought me to a place where I feel compelled to seek and allow contact with my own higher self/holy spirit/spirit guide. Pick a name of your own. There are many titles they carry :)

I hope you’ll grab this book and give it a perusal. It was riveting and took me only about 3 days to read. I was regretful putting it down when I had to and am a little sad that as of this morning, I’ve finished it. Yes, one of those books that you enjoy so much, you wish it’d taken longer to read. Don’tcha just love that?!

Have a fantastic weekend!!

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My affirmation until Sunday, 7-25-10 on the Full Moon~
As I focus upon being happy, all other joy filled things in my life expand*

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