This morning in church, the minister told the story of a young man who had found his absent father on facebook. (Or at least the man he believed was his father.)

Imagine years of pain, wondering where your father is and why he left. Not to mention, let’s admit it, our young minds would probably wonder what we had done wrong to send him away.

So the young man sent a message to the man he believed was his father.

No response.

Upset, the young man went out and did something stupid, on purpose. Something illegal (the minister did not mention what, but had spoken to the young man in jail), but, thankfully, something that did not hurt anyone.

We all sent prayers and healing to the young man. (You can, too.) May he find his way. May he find peace and love and self-acceptance and whatever he needs most.

Powering a Ghost Father

What stuck with me afterwards was this: How could you let someone have that much power over you? Especially someone who is not even there!

Though his father was nowhere to be seen, the young man created a father in his head, imagined what he would do, all the time reminding himself that this father was not there.

Then the young man allowed this imaginary father to haunt him.

Feeding your own consciousness into a thoughtform like this creates, in essence, a ghost. One you feed further, with your own energy… until it starts to feed on you.

• This ghost distracted the young man from living his own life.
• This ghost drove him to spend hours on the internet searching for his physical dad.
• And this ghost prevented the young man from noticing his own father-like qualities. (What was the young man searching for? Strength? Leadership? Courage? Appreciation? Love?)

He put so much power into this ghost that he incarcerated himself with these limiting thoughts — I must find my father, something is wrong with me because I don’t have a father, etc. He limited his own freedom.

Until the young man ended up in a physical jail cell, too.

How Much Power Do You Feed Your Ghost Father?

Granted, I don’t know what it was really like for him. I grew up with a responsible father at home.

But I have seen client after client losing energy because they are feeding ghost parents. These ghost parents still nag at them, belittle them, punish them, and worse.

I have definitely fed my own. My parents are in Arizona. But they used to sit on my shoulders and say the things they always said.

Not their fault. It’s something we do. We internalize our parents’ voices, opinions, etc.

And it is something we can stop doing.

Today.

(Find a healer or check out last year’s article for one way to do this.)

Many Fatherly Blessings to You

May you come to deep peace with your father.

May you arrive at a place where it doesn’t matter how he was or what he did or didn’t do.

May you lose any parasitic ghost father you’ve created and find infinite fatherness within yourself — all you need.

May you be complete in your fatherness. And a happy Father’s Day to you.

© Daria Boissonnas 2013 All Rights Reserved. Please email us about reprint rights.

Share Your Wisdom

• Have you suffered with an internalized parent nagging you or causing pain?
• How have you healed your father relationship? What was particularly useful to you? Leave a reply, below!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Whether you have a romantic partner or not, let’s ponder and honor all the things that are so lovable about you! (Get ready for a long article.)

Nah, scratch that.

The details don’t matter. Here’s the truth of it: You are simply loveable. You were born lovable. Every bit of you.

How do you feel about that?

If you are having a hard time buying this idea, consider this: The divine essence of you is not only lovable, it may be Love itself. Your essence is infinitely lovable. Divine Essence, Life Force, Grace, All-Encompassing Love, Presence, God, Tao: it flows through your veins and along your nerve and energy pathways.

Therefore, the rest of you is lovable too, as an expression of Divine Essence. Every bit of you.

Love is simply who you are, from the inside out.

True, perhaps, from time to time, you might fall into an old reaction, an old habit of thinking or behaving… and then you might not act so lovably. You may yell or worry or cut someone off in traffic. You might think or do something mean. You might fear, feel insecure, or get defensive.

But how you act and think is a mere derivative of the Essence of you. And, yes, sometimes fears and lower energies can get in the mix. But at your core, you are Lovable.

Nothing in your Divine Essence can truly be lost. It is all there, like an acorn holds all the information to become a tree, whatever happens to the acorn. You are complete. Completely lovable. In every moment, in every situation.

If you are lovable in your inner core, then you are lovable in every cell of your body, and in your energy field. Love flows through all you are and do.

Listen to that Love. Can you hear it?

How can you tune into the song of Love within you, every day, in every moment… and hear it so distinctly… that you absentmindedly begin humming the tune for others?

© 2013 Daria Boissonnas

Yesterday I found myself consulting with a wonderful doctor. (Due to ironic school regulations, I had to drag a kid out of his sick bed to have someone else say, “Yep, he has a virus and should be resting.”)

Here’s what struck me. Each time I said something positive (and true) like, “My kids rarely get sick,” she said, “Knock wood.” (And yes, she reached out and knocked on something.)

Remember that? From childhood? What a throwback for me. I’m sure I froze the first time she said it, trying to grok it.

What relic of an old time and a mindset the world is quickly outgrowing: the idea that spit happens and there’s nothing you can do about it. That thinking positively risks invoking the wrath of whatever else had been planned. That you have no right to take your own destiny into your hands. That it is dangerous to think positively and enjoy a good life.

It struck me as so strange that I think we should all pat ourselves on the back! We’ve come a long way, baby! We are no longer afraid to dream our dreams and then do something about them, to change the course of our lives. We are increasingly accepting that positive change (and healing) can be easy, and that much more is possible than we have assumed in the past. Yeah!

Yes, we can change the world for the better. Let’s honor how we used to think, honor our shift, and then keep moving forward. Knocking on wood is no longer necessary. We knocked, and that door opened.

© 2012 Daria Boissonnas

Have you gotten stuck writing a book, workshop, information product, or finishing a big creative project? Struggling to finish? Feeling guilty? Missing deadlines? Worried you aren’t ever going to finish? Can’t find the time?

I know what it’s like.  For three years I worked on writing a book, then this year, I started and finished a book in about 5 months. Let me help you by sharing the three biggest spiritual insights and actions that got me through the rough patches and helped me finish quickly and easily.

If your big creative project is part of your Divine Purpose, we want to help you finish it!

Join us in December for this amazing FREE class.

FREE CALL: “Top 3 Spiritual (& Energy) Secrets to

Getting Unstuck, (Re-)Starting, and Brilliantly Finishing

Your Big Creative Project:

A Free Class for Creatives, Dreamers, Intuitives and Healers”

With Daria Boissonnas, Founder & CEO, Global Institute for Awakening

Completing a book or BIG creative project is a spiritual journey, and it begins in this call! Learn the three secrets that can make the difference between continuing to struggle (or be stuck) and allowing your book to practically finish itself. We will begin to implement on the call, and you will have even more steps to take when you hang up.

Date: Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Time: 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific US time

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I look forward to connecting with you on the call!

~ Daria’s Wednesday Wisdom column ~

A client called reporting that her blood sugar levels, which had been stable and manageable, were starting to spike and change unexpectedly. “Should I come in for more healing work?” she asked.

Usually I leave that answer up to her higher wisdom. So I asked her body’s energy and higher wisdom that question.

“No,” it said. “Something in her environment has changed and she just has to change it back.”

Sounds easy enough! What was it?

…Something in the kitchen. Something having to do with sounds.

What new sounds did she have in her kitchen?

Well, as it turns out, a few weeks earlier she had started listening to right-wing radio shows in the kitchen in the morning.

“Are you enjoying it? Do you agree with what they are saying?”

No, not at all, was her answer. But it was entertaining for sure!

When we are stressed, we often think of higher blood pressure. But in this case, it was higher blood sugar. The energy of this stressful situation was disrupting her blood sugar energy, allowing it to become erratic. She thought she was entertaining herself, but instead she was stressing herself in a way that could harm her health and well-being.

She agreed to stop listening to the new talk shows, and later told me her blood sugar levels had become more stable.

You Are Your Environment

Your environment is not separate from your energy, your mindset, or your health. It is not merely a reflection of the state of your health, but completely connected to it. Your environment is continuous with (one with) the state of your physical, mental, emotional, and other energies and layers of your being.

Happily, due to this connection, you can change your environment and change your health.

Yes, really. But only if you change it in a healing way.

My upcoming book, Gift of the Healer, (due out in Decemberish) describes in detail the difference between healing change and general change, but here is one key to changing your environment in a way that positively affects your personal energy:

Permanently change how you do things. Change your method.

Cleaning up is one thing. Body cleanses and tidying up the house are lovely and important.  But I am talking about stepping beyond a cleanup. To change your energy, you must do more than just fix the clutter in a way that allows it to accrue again. You must change your process so the clutter does not appear any more.

For instance, right here and now, think of a small area in your life where things tend to accumulate. Now walk through these simple questions.

1. Find the process you are missing.

In addition to putting away or recycling that pile of papers, batteries, or broken toys, ask yourself these questions:

Is it OK for this to accumulate here? If so, put a basket, tray, or inbox there (or somewhere more appropriate. Let that be the official place for that stuff! Skip to step 2.

If it is not OK, ask: why is this here? What allowed it to languish? You may say: I need to pay this bill, I don’t know where else to put this thing, I have to file these, I have to make a phone call about this…)

What process is missing? What did NOT happen that allowed this? If there was a process in place that would avoid creating this clutter, what would that process be? You might say, “I don’t have a holding place for my “to do” papers or unpaid bills. Perhaps you used to forget about it when it was in the drawer, so you also need a reminder, either on your phone calendar, or a marker on your desk when you have unpaid bills in the desk. (You can store the marker in the empty bills folder when it is empty.)

2. Create a new process.

Write out the new “rule” for that area. For instance, “When I come home, I will decide within 24 hours where new things live.” Or perhaps, “Unpaid bills go in the red folder in the front of the desk drawer and every month on the 15th and 30th I will pay them.”

Commit to your new process. Get buy-in from roommates/family/etc. Commit to yourself, to healing this broken process that is draining and cluttering up your energy. Adjust your attitude and assumptions that are creating this problem. Yes, your home can be beautifully clean!  Yes, you are so worth it!

Put it in action. Implement what you have come up with. Mark your calendar for that bill paying, or write a sticky note to yourself to remember to do laundry every morning until you remember. It’s OK to forget once in a while when a process is new, but If the process does not work at all, review the steps that got you there. Is there a better process? Does your partner or friend have another idea?

Healing Heals

Healing other people and animals heals you.  Similarly, healing your environment also heals you. It is the healing that makes the difference, not what you are healing.

When you know exactly what turns positive change into healing, you can heal yourself and others all day long, in all that you do. Stick around here to learn more about that!

Please share the process you changed in the comments below. I LOVE to hear from you!

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Avoid offering your services by your technique’s name(s) unless the vast majority of your clients seek your technique.

While this might work for doctors, acupuncturists and massage therapists, even those practitioners are still likely to get more clients if they also do the following.  (For healers who have learned more than three techniques, definitely do not advertise your services by your laundry list of techniques!  Read why here:  http://giawaken.com/2011/05/techniques1)

Instead, offer your services by the benefits they provide to clients. Most people do not wake up in the morning, smack their foreheads and say, “Gosh I really need a good Transmeridian Energy Clearing Heflapurple Nadissimo Intermatrix Quantum Extravaganza!”  Or whatever your technique is called.  Might as well be that, though — it doesn’t mean anything to new clients.

They are much more likely to wake up and say, “Gosh I’m tired of my pain and misery.”  Or, “I wish there was some way to minimize <my problem>.”

Offer Your Benefits

You offer services on your on your business card, brochure and website.  You want to convey your benefits to potential clients, plus make it easy for people to understand who to refer to you.

To be successful, your offer must immediately convey the benefits of what you do. Your specialty, your target market, and your healing gifts should be apparent. Consider these examples.  In each pair, which draws you in more?

1a. I’m a nutritionist and matrix energy healer.

1b. I help women ease into menopause and love their bodies by balancing their hormones naturally.

2a. I’m a chiropractor and I do Awakening Healing.

2b. I help people who have suffered major physical trauma, like an accident or surgery, to recover more quickly and completely.

3a. I’m a personal trainer.

3b. I help women love living in their bodies!

4a.  I’m an energy healer and spiritual mentor.

4b.  I help highly intuitive folks who are creative to make friends with their powerful gifts and find fulfillment following their calling to heal the world.

Surprisingly, being specific like this does not limit your clientele.  It usually has the opposite effect — it can expand it because people finally understand what you do!

Post your “before” and “after” offering in the comments and I’ll be happy to give you further pointers.

“I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.”

–Mahatma Gandhi

What do you do in the morning to prepare for your day? You likely clean your teeth and wash and feed your body.  But what about maintaining your connection with your higher self and inner wisdom?  Do you refresh your connection to Source and to your Calling or life’s purpose?

Don’t be a victim to your day and your duties.  You are so much more than that. Decide right now to make ONE change.  Either set up a morning spiritual refresh activity or strengthen the one you have.

• Can you do a 10-minute relaxation meditation?
• Can you restfully contemplate your life purpose goals and vision for the world?
• Can you connect with the results you seek and visualize them so you can bring them out into the world?
• Can you sit quietly, ask a question, and listen for guidance or for today’s ideal focus or task?

You may resist this change for the first several days, but I challenge you to do this for 10 solid days in a row and see how it goes.

I don’t know about you, but if Ghandi found a morning refresh and centering worked for him, I’m inclined to think he knows something I haven’t figured out yet, and I’m willing to try it.  He was after all extremely effective at creating positive change.

Remember too that being “on” requires being “off”. Being successful out in the world requires inner success first.  The more centered, grounded, Connected, whole, happy, and spiritually refreshed you are, the better you can do what you were born to do.  And the more permanent positive change (aka healing) you can create in the world.

You can do this!  You were born to do this.

Source of quote (and a good article): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/meditation_b_827796.html

It’s what you were born to do.

It is the highest expression of your gifts.

And stepping into it creates the greatest life you can imagine, flowing with wealth, wellness, and genuine happiness.

It is your Higher Calling. But if you don’t know what it is or how it works, you can spend your life chasing shadows and suffering.

Join us for a free talk on Friday, Feb 18, when we’ll share 10 important facts you need to understand about awakening your Calling and creating your dream life in a way that naturally makes a positive difference. You’ll be glad you heard this info!

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Many blessings on your spiritual journey,

• Do you get up in the morning and do pretty much what you did yesterday?
• Do you feel like nothing you try will change the outcome of your life?
• Do you assume that what happened to you long ago has trapped you forever? (That’s a big myth!)

In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s character falls into a time warp where no matter what crazy impulsive thing he does, even killing himself, he wakes up at exactly the same time on the same morning, over and over. 

It’s a movie of course, and the sarcastic angry character eventually shifts from manipulating his environment for the sense of power and accomplishment to genuinely connecting with those around him, esp his love interest. And it happens because this crazy time warp forces him, out of boredom, to stop looking at the surface of things.

Last week a client told me the same thing–that her life felt like the Groundhog Day movie.  Though she knew better, she observed herself every day repeating the same bad habits, the same shortcuts, the same behaviors that were keeping her stuck.  She said she felt like she lacked the power to stop repeating them. “How can I break out of that?” was her question.

Good question.

Plain and simple, I find behavior like this happens when a person is avoiding their Calling. 

It’s a very strong urge, the Calling.  It is an instinct so strong we can feel it but not always put words and actions on it. 

To block it off, to delay doing what you were born to do, to step out of your innate power, you need some serious firepower — lots of energy.  The most concentrated energy we can muster is called up by our emotions.  So the more stuck you get, the more frustrated and angry and grief-stricken and regretful and self-deprecating you get, the more you can “safely” avoid your calling.  The more you can stay attached to those things that happened in your childhood, the unfairness of life, the jealousy, the things that keep you small.  The more you can stay stuck.

BUT, Life is motion, and Life always moves forward.  As time passes, you naturally forget broken hearts, negative comments, etc.  To remember these things, you must think about them and drag in the energy of negative emotions to strengthen your connection with them.  Otherwise, your connections naturally fade.  To stay stuck in limiting habits, you need to generate negative emotion.  Unfortunatley, the side effect of this avoidance loop is that you suffer. A lot.  After a while, it feels awful and you would give anything to change it.

But suffering is not necessary. I remember when I was stuck in a similar place many years ago. I thought I would go crazy with how miserable I was, even I appeared to be living a fine life.  ONE thing pulled me through to the wonderful place I am today.  One thing.  It was that small part of me that knew, I mean it KNEW I was supposed to be doing something else.  Something greater.  Something that made a difference.  I had no idea what it was, but I hung onto that tiny bit of knowingness for dear life, and following it pulled me out of that misery and suffering. 

Can you hear or feel that tiny part of you that KNOWS you are not doing what you were meant to do?  Perhaps you even know what you are supposed to be doing, but feel helpless to break out of your current situation!

Are you ready to break free?  Are you ready to let go of the draining dramas and the tiring tirades once and for all?  The Global Institute for Awakening was founded to help you step into your Calling, the thing you were born to do.  If you aren’t following your calling, something will feel like it’s missing in your life.  You can win everything, get the job the spouse the car the house you desire, but something is still missing.  When life doesn’t satisfy, you’re missing your Calling. 

Following your Calling allows you to live the life of your dreams — full of health, wealth, wisdom, peace, love and joy – while making a big difference in the world.

I invite you to make a decision today to give up the distracting disempowerment and say yes to your Divine gifts.  To let go of the painful routine that is knowable and predictable and to say yes to allowing the Universe to blindly guide you into bliss.  To stop doubting and start trusting. To stop ignoring your gifts and acknowledge them. To stop depriving yourself of your lucrative dream life and start nourishing yourself.  Make the decision today.  Find that tiny bit of knowingness inside you that says you were meant to do something else, something greater than this.  Write your decision on paper.  Write supporting statements of intention.  And when you mean it, the Universe will answer you.

Then consider joining us for our new transformative seminar called “I Am My Calling:  How to Know and Fulfill Your Highest Calling to Create a Meaningful & Lucrative Business/Family/Life you Love that Makes a BIG Difference“.  This is more than just information!  You seek information when you’re stuck, but how do you get unstuck? 

We’re combining workshop classes with breakthrough personal work & healing work to disconnect those old connections that hold you back and align you more fully and easily with your innate Calling and divine gifts.  ”I Am My Calling” not only gives you the information, but helps you cut cords, break habits, and transition into implementing it in your life!

Learn more about this class and our earlybird registration prices here.  Class starts March 16, 2011.

Imagine yourself as a small seed.

Contained in that tiny seed is the complete pattern of the full, complex plant in its greatest fruition. All the fullness of its potential beauty and delight and glory and gifts for the world is already there.  All the information it needs to fulfill its pattern and potential is there.  It lacks nothing in its essence or core pattern.

I also guarantee that a more powerful potential outcome than you can even imagine is in that seed, too.  It’s merely not realized in the physical world… yet.

All you have to do is allow what’s in that seed — the inner wisdom and full innate pattern — to unfold. It already knows how to.  It knows a zillion ways how to.  It has the information.  It has infinite potential.  Your job is simply to assist.

• To provide the most nurturing environment without suffocating or stunting growth.
• To exercise and master your ability to help without slowing the process.
• To build faith and trust in the seed’s potential and to step back and allow it to fulfill its greatest potential.

These are the seven steps of Awakening, which we practice each month here at GIA.  They are so important, we’ve provided a free ebook with more details on how to do those steps!  If you haven’t gotten a copy, sign up for it now at the top of the page.

Start now.  This is the year for your success!

2012 is coming up fast.  But people need you now.  This is the year to learn to step aside, uplevel, and let the seed that is you unfold more quickly into its greatest expression. Here are three steps to get you going:

1. Let go right now and allow the seed to be settled by gravity into its best place.  So often we are so obsessed with finding the “right” place or time that we never begin.

2. Step aside and let the rain soften the soil.  Allow the sun to shine on the growing plant, whatever it looks like in its awkward youth.  All you have is right under your nose… if you can see it.

3. Know that everything is best in the moment.  Trust that everything IS in there already and can emerge.  Trust that you have the power to help the seed within you.  Trust that the inner pattern of the seed knows a million ways to emerge and flower, and it’s hard to get in its way.  And trust that the rain, sun and other resources you need will appear as you need them.  If you find yourself worrying or getting in the way, you can actively work on building this trust.

You are a powerful being, constantly growing and increasingly fulfilling your potential.  May you enjoy many blessings on your exciting journey of growth this year!

If you are ready to make 2011 you year, we are here to make it easier and quicker for you, especially if you are here to help the world awaken.  Check out our amazing benefits HERE, and start your membership right away.

May 2011 the year you finally truly sprout your true purpose to help Awaken the planet! What can you do to start right now?  Take one simple step right now, in the next 10 minutes.

“The answers to your questions, dreams, and prayers are limited first by your not asking them.

The second limitation comes from not seeing or accepting the answers in front of you.

The third from not believing the answers came from within you where your capacity to accomplish them already exists.”

     –Daria Boissonnas, Founder, Global Institute for Awakening

Unfortunately, I see these three limitations over and over in my mentoring.  Just came across them yesterday in our astonishing Clear Wisdom calls, which you can listen to free by registering here:  http://giawaken.com/2011/01/final-cw-holiday-call/   In Clear Wisdom, I tune into the higher consciousness of the client to help them find the most effective efficient way to help Awaken the world.  See if you can hear a little bit of pushback on these calls.  (Extra credit:  figure out which of the three issues each person is having.)

As you Awaken to your life’s purpose, your full capabilities (much greater than you can even imagine right now), and the ease with which you can live a blissful life making permanent positive change in the world… then these limitations disappear.

I love the new year as a time to review the abundant blessings in my life, do you? 

Let’s count our blessings together.  What are you most grateful for?  Stating it aloud and writing it down helps connect you with those blessings and keeps them active. 

Inspire others and share with us by writing what you are grateful for or intend to grow in 2011 in the comment section below.

As for me, I so appreciate all the visitors, fans, and members who make up our community here at the Global Institute for Awakening.  You are each and all Awakening the world, from the inside out.  You are benefitting many generations to come with your personal spiritual practice and your work out in the world.  We love to hear from you, your success and inspiration, as well as your troubles and intentions.

You make everything we do a pure delight.  Thank you!!

Habits can be positive or negative.  The word just means something you do so much you’re not conscious of it any more.  The dictionary says a habit is almost involuntary. 

Wait a sec, not voluntary? Who then is running your life?

Most of us live on poor habits we established in childhood, when we didn’t understand the world well.  These habits are based on flawed information or mistaken conclusions we made, yet we live by them without realizing it.  As an adult, many of these habits create more suffering than they do joy.  A good portion of the healing and consulting work I do with clients clears these old “rules of habit” out to make room for more accurate and positive ones based on the wisdom you’ve gathered in your life.

You can build positive, masterful habits.  Habits that are based on foundational Truths of the Universe, that create more love, service, wisdom and peace.  These positive habits naturally create material and spiritual wealth, money and meaning and, yes, happiness!  (Tho it’s not from the money.)  Naturally, without effort.  They are habits after all.

It only takes 21-30 days to seed a habit.  To create a seed that can grow into a well-established positive way of thinking or being.  A positive way of thinking and being that you default to without thinking.  Would you like to default to thinking wealth, wellness, wisdom and joy?

The more positive habits you have, the more head-room you have to enjoy life.  This is why our membership program gives you the exercises and training to make lifelong habits out of the positive skills and mindsets we practice.  Think how good your life can get with ten new positive habits a year and the support to live by them.  Join us today.

Hello Beautiful Soul!

We’ve been busy here, reviewing how far we’ve come (WOW!) and planning for next year.

Soon we will announce next year’s 10 life-enhancing core curriculum topics. They are exciting — we will challenge a few popular misunderstandings and empower you to make a bigger difference as you live an easier life!

Do NOT miss January’s training for members on Effective Energy Protection: Top Secrets and Techniques of the Energetically Secure.  January’s guest expert interview will be with Juliet Oberding, the lawyer to healers. We’ll talk about protecting your business or practice energetically and legally.  Join us today as a member, and start 2011 off on a strong note!

Beyond that, I have two BIG announcements:

1. Six Complimentary Consulting Sessions Available

Happy New Year!  Next week is the first of two calls where we are offering six F R E E Clear Wisdom intuitive consulting sessions to you, our fans and members. It’s one way we give back to you, and help you blast through your challenges so you can take your life to the next level of health, wealth, wisdom and joy.

*** Calendar these Calls ***
Dates: Tuesdays, December 21 & 28, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern
Call: 402-237-2972, conference code 4632742#

2. A New 4-month fast-track Think Like a Healer™ program launching soon

Ready to make a quantum leap in your business/career or personal/family life next year?  Watch for our 4-month fast-track Think Like a Healer™ program.  We’ll teach you the mindset and attitude of someone who has mastered life’s challenges: a master healer.  More than that, we’ll give you the exercises to develop the skills and habits of a master healer.

We will answer your questions in the next few weeks, talking about anything from hand analysis to intuition, from manifesting easily to creating new paradigms of success, prepare to expand your mindset and life.  Watch for our announcements!

Here’s to you, to 2010, and to your greatest 2011!!  See you on the calls!

Many blessings, 
                      

Daria Boissonnas
Founder, Global Institute for Awakening

No school tomorrow!  That means we are heading into the unique U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving. 

Wherever you are, I’d love to know what Thanksgiving, thanks-giving, or gratitude tradition YOU value the most, old or new.  Please share with us in the comment section below!   

I’m not enough of a fan of turkey to bake my own, but we are visiting my extended family for a potluck dinner together.  I’m finding I crave a new Thanksgiving tradition, however, one that is not centered around food.  I very much look forward to reading your entries, whether about food or not!

I love love love healing!  As a mother and wife and busy person, I am so grateful to have options in my life for speeding healing that I can use to feel better quickly and to help my loved ones feel better too.  

There is NOT a rule that says you have to get sick.  What I’ve seen as a healer is that when we can’t fully process something emotionally or mentally, it drops down into the body to be processed in a visceral, vivid, physical way.  (Your body is an amazing healer and helper that way!) 

Me, I don’t listen to any of those ads commiserating about “cold and flu season”.  Baloney.  I know because I barely get sick any more (thank goodness), and my kids are rarely and barely sick as well.  Oh, I used to get one thing after another, plus asthma and allergies to boot.  Rip-roaring colds that lasted weeks (starting with a runny nose, then sore throat and down into my bronchials for a lingering cough).  Now I get much, much, MUCH milder versions.  I’ll spare you details, but I can tell I’m sick usually in the morning, then feel OK or have very mild symptoms during the day. 

As my symptoms have become milder over the last few years, I became much more aware of the underlying icky feelings and emotions that come with each illness.  For example, while what was typically a pounding headache is now a mild ache, I still feel foggy and want to lie down and not move.  (I LOVE that it’s so much less painful, whew.)

Now the universe is training me to back up even further.  Two weeks ago was a big wakeup call.  I was traveling at a business conference.  The morning of the day I was to be on stage in the afternoon, I woke up dizzy, weak, and nauseated.  Reviewing the prior two days, I saw the signs of mild dehydration move to significant dehydration, one after another, laid out clearly.  I had been traveling and preoccupied.  I had even missed the big red-flashing-light sign the night before.  So I guzzled water, did a little healing, went back to bed for a couple hours, got up and ate sea salt, and felt much better by lunch time (tho I look quite pale in the photos, what can ya do).

Yep, the signs had all been there, but I didn’t notice them.  Point taken, and thanks for the insight, Universe.  I’m paying attention!  Last night, I started to feel like I was getting sick — lungs less elastic, felt a touch weak & a little “off”.  It had come on gradually over the day. 

Remembering my lesson from earlier this month, I worked on it first thing this morning, did a little healing work, about 20 minutes’ worth.  Right now it’s about 12 hours later and I feel 100%!  My lungs feel completely free and unconstricted.  I am more than grateful.

What’s Your Mindset about Getting Sick?

Even Louis Pasteur, the father of vaccinations, said near the end of his life that it’s not germs that causes disease, but the terrain — the environment you provide in your life, your mindset, and your body.  Are you a likely breeding ground for problems, or are you taking care of yourself and detaching from cycles of illness?  Are you seeking health or are you a willing victim to “cough and cold season”? 

Here’s three things you can do right now to avoid getting sick in the first place:

1. Take care of yourself.  Clean up that terrain so no germs want to move in.    In my healing practice, I find most adults are deficient in sleep, rest, and play — not to mention many minerals and B vitamins.  Consider setting a goal to get 8 hours of sleep a night, or start taking a 15-minute lie-down empty-mind rest period in the middle of your day.  Consider renewing your nutritional supplement schedule and sticking with it.  Make ONE change right now, and stick with it.

2. Get yourself some healing tools and processes.  Take a healing class.  My favorite healing modalities are Awakening Healing and Health Kinesiology.  Learn about essential oils or homeopathics.  Learn to meditate.  Keep an open mind and explore possibility.  You are quite familiar with what you THINK you can’t do.  What CAN you do?  How healthy can you get?

3. Hang out here at the Global Institute for Awakening and learn to awaken the greatest possible outcome in every situation, including your health and spiritual well-being.  We help you get your inner work done easily and quickly, layer by layer, so you can achieve greater and greater levels of wealth, wellness and wisdom.  Then you can get out there and succeed brilliantly at whatever you choose!  To join us or check out our generous annual program, hop on over to http://GIAwaken.com/benefits.   We look forward to getting to know you.

Many blessings on your path to wellness and healing!

Our spiritual journeys repeatedly require us to streeeeeeeeetch in to new areas, to try on new ideas, and to push ourselves through new experiences.  This is how we grow and expand into our greatest potential.  It’s how we bring our inner gifts into the world around us.

What do you do when you are nervous and uncertain, on the verge of one of those new stretches?  Do you push yourself through it?  Tough it up, close your eyes, and go? 

Today we are so used to taking ACTION and PUSHING to make things happen that we forget about the soft approach, where we can stop struggling and simply invite the greatest possible outcome in to our lives.

In my experience, the best advice is the simplest:  in any stressful or uncertain situation, just ask how you can be of service.

It is that simple.  Whereever you go, whatever is worrying you, this is the best advice for resolving the challenges and moving forward.  Whether you are speaking on stage at an event, teaching a big class, or seeing a new client, this works like a charm! 

I recently had the opportunity to “hear” this again and apply it myself.  I have been asked to speak at a new kind of event.  Being naturally shy, I panicked for a time about what I was going to do and bring and say.  Then my business coach (Sheri McConnell) casually said one day to focus on being of service.  Zing!  Like a flash of lightning, I knew she was right. 

Practice Stopping the Struggle

I talk all the time about how we often create artificial struggles in our lives by pushing instead of simply opening to receive.  The more I thought about how I could be of service there, the calmer and calmer I felt.  Then what I should bring started popping into my head, and I knew exactly what to do!  It was magical.  Asking “how can I best be of service?” eliminated my worries and connected me with the exact solution I needed. 

In our membership training call this month, I’ll delve into this inspiring topic more deeply (November 16th).  If you’d like to join us, sign up for a year’s membership here, and we’ll send you the details:  http://GIAwaken.com/benefits.  Otherwise, join us on your own in practicing “how can I be of service?” through the end of the year!

And remember to share your experiences with us — we love to hear from you, either at Support@GIAwaken.com, or by commenting on this post, below.

There is an art and a science to creating an addictive food, and many packaged and chain restaurant foods are so engineered. Like the toxic cocktail in cigarettes, foods are also designed to make your body crave them.  Hey, it’s good business for manufacturers.

Is it fair, though?  I have definitely had my share of food addictions.  I know those cravings you can’t stop, the ones that send you to the convenience store at night.  You might as well be headed for a liquor store or a street corner for a pick-you-up. 

When we give in to these engineered cravings, it’s rough on our bodies.  These foods often carry preservatives, bad sugar, bad fats and worse.  And then comes the guilt, the self-criticism and even more toxicity in our thoughts. Food addiction is just as serious as any other addiction.

I highly recommend you read this article about food addiction and engineering on Huffington Post, by Dr. Mark Hyman (MD).

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/food-addiction-could-it-e_b_764863.html

(While you are on HuffPost, sign up as a reader and friend/follow me!  I’d love to connect with you.  Or comment below!) 

GIAwaken Recommends

The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, by Dr. David Kessler MD

Related GIAwaken articles:
The Secret of Addictions, Part I
     http://giawaken.com/2008/12/the-secret-of-addictions-part-i/

The Secret of Addictions, Part II: bypassing them
     http://giawaken.com/2009/01/the-secret-of-addictions-part-ii-bypassing-them/

Watch this. Take mental notes. Then put it out of your mind. From the University of Arizona medical college, here’s a new type of CPR that’s reported to be more effective than the traditional method you might have taken in a Red Cross training. 

What do you think of the method?

Here’s the Heart Association’s video, where they put chest compressions first, now, ahead of airway & breathing:

Nice article about panick symptoms vs. heart attack in women:

http://www.womensheart.org/content/HeartDisease/panic_attack_or_heart_attack.asp

On Thursday I made the 3-hour drive to Oak Park, IL (Chicago) to see the nondenominational Mother Meera and receive a blessing from her.  Some say she is an avatar — a holy, enlightened being walking the earth.  While I’ll let you decide that for yourself, I do know she is a powerful healer and a realized spiritual teacher.  Personally, I have experienced transformative upshifts after each visit with her, and I’m so grateful she occasionally stops in just 3 hours from my home. 

Her process is simple and brief, and done in complete silence with a crowd of a couple hundred people.  When it’s your turn, you kneel in front of her (or sit in a chair, as you are able) and she gently holds your head for a few seconds.  When she lets go, you sit back and gaze into her eyes for a few more seconds.  When she looks down, she’s done. 

That’s it.  Just a few seconds. 

The power and briefness of this process remind me that healing processes don’t have to take a long time or be difficult to be profound and effective.  Needing complexity (and, I’ll say it, drama) is a characteristic of human ego.  It’s powerful to simply sit in the room with her and receive.

Whether you consider yourself a healer or not, your greatest natural gift is to make life easier and better for yourself and others.  I believe we could all benefit from reminding ourselves regularly that this process doesn’t have to be hard or dramatic to be effective. 

This time, I brought back a profound sense of peace.  I am letting it flow through me into everything I do, and it is bringing astonishing clarity with it!  Perhaps you can take a moment right now to share this deep peace with me.  :)

More Info about Mother Meera

Located in Germany, Mother Meera travels the world regularly.  Public darshan is free, though you have an opportunity to donate and buy some products – all you have to do is register ahead of time.  Find out more about Mother Meera’s current North American tour schedule here:  http://www.mothermeeradarshan.org/  Get on their email list and they’ll let you know when she’s coming back.