Whew, I’ve been going through a major healing wave in the last few weeks!  The kind where I stop calling my friends for a while b/c I’m processing stuff.  (They are used to this, bless them.)  In mid-January, it was like a floodgate opened on a clogged dry riverbed.  As the water has poured through, huge logs, boulders, branches, and rotten things have lifted away effortlessly, piece by piece.  

In the last week it’s been washing away blocks to my creativity.  Yes, I finally saw the pattern that when I start super-creative projects that are really “me”, they all seem to die!  Hmmm.  It’s time for that to stop, and I know that’s why this is clearing itself up. 

What Makes an Artist an Artist?

Oddly, since Tuesday I’ve been badly longing to see some paintings I did in 2001 after I took my very first painting class from the local recreation program.  It wasn’t a class as much as an artist walking around the room.  My questions started with, “What do I do?”  I hated the two paintings I attempted in that class. 

Daria's painting #3

About the same time, an astrologer told me I was so creative I should leap out of bed in the morning saying, “I am an artist!  I am an artist!  I am an artist!”  

Feh.  I was not an artist. I majored in econ with lots of math and computer courses.  I worked in finance.  I was logical, thank you very much. 

Then again, since I was little, I’ve longed to paint.  I remember sitting in front of blank paper, desperately wanting to paint, knowing I could, knowing the feeling of painting, but not being able to do it.  Blocked. 

So at my request this morning, my weekly healing mastermind focused on unlocking and healing creativity.  We cleared dozens of false beliefs that had been getting in my way.  Do you recognize any of these?  (You also can clear them by adding “I choose to lose the concept that…”) 

• Science is superior to art. 
• Art is a waste of time, artsy-fartsy, something to be made fun of, something to hide.
• Art is not valuable.  (So you have to buy cheap materials and you certainly can’t make a living out of it.)
• Nobody can be good at art except the chosen special few like Monet and VanGough, definitely not me.
• <Insert critical comment here about your art.>
• It’s too risky to put yourself out there genuinely through your art.

I hope you can see the utter ridiculousness of these few samples! 

As we worked, I finally went downstairs and dug out the paintings.  I was shocked to find they were MUCH better than I remembered.  In fact, my fourth painting (an unfinished bowl of pears) triggered an almost meditative state of Presence for me.  I’ll be working with that one this week! 

The Secret to Art & Why It Will Always Be In Demand – Always

Am I an artist? Are you?  In 14 years of learning why artists are stuck and sick, I’ve discovered a secret about art.  By observing my healing work with many high-level artists and creatives, I’ve concluded that creativity, intuition, and healing all come from the same place.  It is a place we are each connected to and a part of.  

Daria's Painting #4, Unfinished

It’s not the physical, mechanical, logical, emf side of life.  Art connects us to the nonphysical, intuitive, knowing, genuine, connected, One-with-All side of the universe.  Art connects both the artist and the beholder to that Other Side, that part of ourselves we have a hard time sensing, the part with all the deep Peace, Love, Wisdom, Fulfillment and Bliss we could want.  We CRAVE this connection.  

Intuition also comes from connecting to that place of Wisdom and Potential, of Knowing.  And so does genuine transformative healing.  When we connect to that part of ourselves and use that part of our consciousness, we can shift to a better way of living and being in a way that changes our lives for the better.  Permanently.  That’s healing. 

Yes, perk up, starving artists –  since good art connects us with that infinite, higher side of ourselves, it will ALWAYS be in demand, always.  

My Challenge for You

I’m taking a look at my own art and creativity this week, with loving and accepting eyes this time.  I know I’m ready to do this.  I invite or even challenge you to do the same.  Then share your journey and art with us in the comments.  Post your blog or art links.  The more we share our stories of creativity, the more we can help each other and raise the next generation to accept their Inner Artists.  The more we enjoy art ourselves, the more we can heal. 

Art, at its core, is a level of mastery: mastery of patterns, mastery of connections, mastery of seeing the same thing in a new way.  So too is healing. 

When you master life’s patterns, you can create the GREATEST ART IN THE WORLD: making an art form out of LIVING YOUR LIFE and leaving the world a better place.  You can make an art of living, healing and Awakening. 

Are you an artist?  Am I?  

Yes, my friend, we sure are.  

I see the innate artist in you, and I am blessed by it.  Thank you for that.

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!

Super-Easy to Register for the Call

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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.

•  Ever long for relief from a gift that feels like a curse?
•  Got an intuitive idea for a business you know can work… but on the other hand, don’t believe it can happen?
•  Know inside you are called to do something creative and wonderful, but you are afraid to step into it?
•  Feeling a calling… to… do… um, something… but not sure what?

We are each called to a greater expression of ourselves, but without some important information about this process, your calling can instead create pain, misery and depression.  Sign up for our email list so you can listen Wednesday to find out why that happens and how to reverse the pain and thrive with your calling.

Discover the simplest way to answer your deepest yearnings, know why you are here, and live a life of meaning, fulfillment, and purpose.  Best of all, discover why 2011 is such a great year to strengthen your commitment to your highest calling and step into it!

Register for the call and audio recording afterwards by simply signing up for our email list at the top of this page!  If you already have, you will receive a reminder just before the call and a notice about the audio later. 

Date: Wednesday January 26, 2011
Time: 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern US
Speaker:  Daria Boissonnas, Founder, Global Institute for Awakening

Note from Daria ~ Newsletter 18 Jan 2011

Oh what a week!

Last week was download week for me, and I’m still catching up with reality.  Messages, classes, marketing campaigns, coincidental offers — it all popped in, one after another after another. Almost to overwhelm level.

Have you experienced this yourself?  When your creativity goes crazy, and you become a fountain of ideas?  It’s exciting!  We are each connected to the Pool of All Possibilities, and when we open that connection, we can pull in new, life-enhancing options.  We can make the impossible possible.

Then the BIG question becomes: what do I do about it first?  

Doing something about it is where GIA comes in.  We give you the practical tools and systems to shift that creative fountain of ideas to a well-oiled, enjoyable business, practice or career. 

Here’s my favorite first step:  always always write down the idea or insight that came in. This action honors the Source of the idea.  It’s like saying thank you, plus you ARE taking the FIRST STEP to manifesting the concept in the physical/mental world.  

I keep a “Brainstorms” file on the computer where I write these down, plus a little notebook in my purse.  A beautiful journal would be delightful.

Another good reason to write them down is that sometimes these download experiences can be like dreams — you may have shifted into an altered state, so when you start operating in the everyday world, the brilliant ideas fade like a dream in the morning.  Though they were earth-shattering, now you can’t remember them.

So write them all down, right away.  Then enjoy sifting thru that Brainstorms file now and again to find insights and ideas you can still use.

Let me know how this strategy goes.  Here’s to you and your highest calling!!  

Many blessings,

Daria Boissonnas
Founder, Global Institute for Awakening

TWO Free Calls this Week!

Thursday: Has Your Astro Sign Changed… or Not?

The internet is abuzz about recent news articles that point out that the sun was not actually in your natal astrological sign when you were born, due to the tipping of the earth.  They also claim the Babylonians took a sign out of the zodiac.  Should it be there?  Find out on Thursday.

Tell your friends:  anyone who is signed up for our email list or freebie Wake-Up Kit (at top of every page and at http://GIAwaken.com) will get info for this free call.)

Date: Thursday, 20 January 2011
Time: 12 noon Pacific/3pm Eastern

Speakers: Daria Boissonnas, Global Institute for Awakening Founder, interviews
Patricia Selmo, professional astrologer & ordained minister

How to Sign Up:  Everyone on our email list will get call-in details.  Subscribe to our freebie above or at GIAwaken.com to register for the call details.

Weds the 26th: Your Spiritual Calling and How to Thrive with It

Got a gift that feels like a curse? Listen & discover how to live with your greatest gift — your calling!  Daria will explain why it is much easier to follow your calling than to ignore it.  Join us for this call and we’ll also explain why 2011 is such a great year to strengthen your commitment to your highest calling and step into it!

Tell your friends:  Anyone signed up for our email list or freebie Wake-Up Kit, at the top of every page and at http://GIAwaken.com, will get info for this free call.

Date: Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Time: 11 am Pacific/2pm Eastern

Speaker: Daria Boissonnas, Founder of the Global Institute for Awakening

How to Sign Up:  Everyone on our email list will get call-in details.  Subscribe to our freebie above or at GIAwaken.com to register for the call details.

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

—Emily Dickinson

Note from Daria ~  Newsletter 10 Jan 2011

Hello Awakener,

I have SO loved spending three weeks with our fans & members in our Holiday Gift Clear Wisdom sessions.  As always, I am impressed and honored by your potential to Awaken the world and create permanent positive change.  

On Friday we posted the final call recording.  WOW!  For Kelly, our first caller, I saw intuitively two transformative info products she easily had within her.  (I can’t wait to buy them myself!) 

For Heather, the second caller, I tuned into a transformative program she can create right now that helps people make changes they’ve been meaning to make for a while.  (So often we know but don’t do, right?  BIG demand for that one!)

Get immediate access to these powerful recordings through this post:

     http://giawaken.com/2011/01/final-cw-holiday-call/  

Are You Drained By Your Healing or Intuitive Work?

One past teacher of mine said always to make sure I ate lots of protein during a healing day of clients.  Another said not to eat any food w/in a couple hours of seeing clients, since the food pulled you away from the esoteric levels.  I’ve learned countless energy protection techniques over the years…

And I don’t use a one. 

What I’ve found is that when you’re truly following your calling and expressing your life’s purpose, it’s invigorating and refreshing!  You don’t worry about picking up energies and feeling cruddy afterwards.  You actually feel better after seeing clients than before.

If this isn’t how your practice or business feels, take a good look at how you are working, your attitudes, your clients, what your’e offering, your life’s purpose, and your healing gifts.  Make sure they are all in alignment with who you really are.   

We’ll go into this in detail in our member training this month:  Secrets of the Energetically Secure — it’s all about energy protection that really WORKS and how to stop picking up icky energies from people.  

Join here to learn how to stop being drained by the energy vampires in your life:

     http://GIAwaken.com/benefits

Here’s to you and to your greatest 2011!!  See you on our calls!

Many blessings,

Daria Boissonnas
Founder, Global Institute for Awakening

Join Us for Our Next Free Call

Date: January 14, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern
Sign up here: 

Topic:  Your Spiritual Calling & How to Fulfill It
     With Daria Boissonnas, Founder of the Global Institute for Awakening

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.

There’s something thrilling and even luxurious about a brand new empty calendar!  What new adventures will you have in 2011?  What will you change?  What will you expand to a new level?

We help you reach your goals and greatest potential as easily and quickly as possible.  So we are thrilled to offer six Clear Wisdom intuitive sessions as a free gift to our members & fans in two special FREE calls!

What a lineup.  Our callers have questions from personal struggles with addiction and self-sabotage to how to expand a small business.

Call in to hear what the universe has in store for our participants.  I’ll connect with each caller’s higher wisdom and life purpose, supporting the information I receive with my business & marketing background, mentoring experience, healing expertise, channeling, and spiritual understanding including the principles and processes we teach here at GIAwaken.  I know it will be powerful and a healing experience for everyone — both our callers and anyone who listens to the call!  Yes, healing will flow. 

Are you ready to break through what holds you back?  Soak up the healing and listen to the wisdom that comes through these breakthrough sessions: 

*** Calendar These Calls ***

Dates:  Tuesdays, December 21 & 28, 2010    New extra call:  Jan 4, 2010!

Time:  11am Pacific / noon Mountain / 1pm Central / 2pm Eastern, 60-90 minutes

Call:  402-237-2972, conference code 4632742#    
The call will be recorded and you can listen to the audio later (but the special offer will not be available).

Special Offer only for listeners:  As of last month, I no longer offer single Clear Wisdom sessions, except to members of the Global Institute for Awakening.  Everyone else must purchase a 3-month or 6-month mentoring package with me.  However, I will make a few individual sessions available at a special rate for listeners on the call.  Tune into the call to get the code.   

What Is a Clear Wisdom breakthrough session?

Clear Wisdom is all about helping you get the most results for the least effort by aligning with your life’s purpose or higher consciousness.  When you do this, life flows more easily, with much less suffering and much more wealth, wellness and wisdom.

In a Clear Wisdom session, I tap into the vast wisdom in your energy system, higher consciousness, and soul’s contract.  I ask how you can most easily reach your goals as quickly as possible.  You get the exact steps — as precise as a recipe — that you need to get unstuck and achieve what you seek.  I’ve been doing this for over 10 years and clients typically rave about their sessions!

I’ve helped folks prioritize their life and clean distractions off their to-do lists.  They have received precise steps to expand their business, create a new product line, resolve a life challenge, find a romantic relationship, create self-care schedules, heal physical issues (especially those that defy modern science), get unstuck, clarify and simplify their direction, and so much more.  In one hour’s business consult, I helped one business client put together a $500,000 program, and another client build her signature product for her business!

Improve your life, ease your suffering, or expand your business by hearing your own higher wisdom and connecting with your as-yet-untapped potential in a Clear Wisdom breakthrough session.

Ten times a year, members of the Global institute for Awakening hear a fascinating interview with a guest expert in a topic that deepens our spiritual practice focus of the month.   Our current focus is on being of service.  Practicing this awakened attitude helps us get unstuck, move beyond our deepest fears, leapfrog old negative patterns, and create authenticity and genuine healing.  (Yes, it is that powerful!)

Today Daria Boissonnas, Founder of the Global Institute for Awakening, interviewed Jacqueline Hadden, the Conscious Connector.  They discussed a range of issues important to running a heart-based business or healing practice: 

• the ethics of affiliate marketing programs
• creating long-term business relationships that serve both businesses and especially the customer/client
• how to spot if someone isn’t right for your company
• what is a true realized teacher or expert
• a strategy for networking effectively and what commonly holds people back
• how to use your natural intuition in business
• and more!

Members can download the audio any time.

About Jacqueline Hadden

As the Conscious Connector, Jacqueline Hadden is passionate about helping her clients develop authentic connections and long-term relationships with both clients and business associates.  Drawing on more than 25 years’ experience in conscious connection, communication, and conflict resolution, Jacqueline puts it this way:  “I challenge individuals to delve deep into their essence, step out of their uncertainties, and connect with their most authentic and celebrated self.  Yes, you can create ideal, long-lasting relationships with other entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders.  And from there, you can create wealth in both relationships and finances.”

Jacqueline is well-versed in the psychology of interaction, and all aspects of what draws and repels people to and from each other.  But even better, she simply has an intuitive knack for connecting people with their own message and with those they can serve. 

Jacqueline lives in Calabasas, California with her husband, two beautiful children, a dog and a bearded dragon.  Her interests include horses, animals, hiking, exercise, dance, music, art, theater, travel, reading, writing, networking events, and of course, people.

Our Fave Quotes from Jacqueline

(Join here to hear the full recording immediately:  http://GIAwaken.com/benefits)

“My rule of thumb for myself is that if I have to question it more than once, that’s one time too many.” 

‎”If you are coming from the right place, you can’t make the wrong decision.”

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.

“Healing, enlightenment, and spiritual evolution are not about an escape to Nirvana.  Healing is about manifesting divinity in the world of matter, right here, right now.”

–Daria Boissonnas, Founder of the Global Institute for Awakening

You are always more powerful than you think you are.  Always. 

— Daria Boissonnas, Founder of the Global Institute for Awakening

Remind yourself of this regularly!  Your thinking mind will never fully understand the power of your higher self or your latent potential.  It will only be able to think of a few of the infinite solutions the universe always has available.  Your thinking mind is not as great or expansive as your full potential self. 

Therefore you are always more powerful than you think you are.  Once you understand this, you are able to seek that greater power and help more people live better lives, including yourself.

Level:  All — Explorers, Healers, Leaders

Description:  Healers have advanced humanity for millennia.  You too are a powerful natural healer, with a gift or blessing within you that can help others live a better life!  When awakened, your gift heals you and the world around you.  When you learn your healing archetype, you can express your healing gift more easily, creating more success, joy, wealth, wellness and wisdom for you and those around you.

Discover how you express your innate Inner Healer and understand what form that takes — which healer archetype you express.  Learn how those with your archetype tend to get stuck — and how to get unstuck.  Discover how to focus your efforts to most easily create powerful results in anything you do.  Drop the distractions that are taking power away from you doing what you were born to do. Bring more healing to a world that needs your help!

• Discover your type of healer — Creative, Wounded or Trickster.
• Understand how you facilitate healing.
• Learn the most rewarding and productive spiritual practices for your archetype.
• Bypass the prosperity blockages for your type of healer.
• Find out where you are on the five stages of healer mindset evolution (and then skip to the top).
• Learn the magical sucess mindset of the master healer that makes it all work!

Healing doesn’t merely fix problems: it finds a better way of being and thinking where the problem troubles you no more: a new paradigm. 

You ARE a healer.  You have the power to positively change the world within you.  Find out what kind of healer you are and let it out!  Bring more healing and advanced problemsolving into a world that needs your help.  Make the biggest difference you can make and leave the planet a better place.

Dates: Wednesdays, November 10, 17, 23, Dec 1 & 8,  by telephone conference call (you get the recording too)
Time: 9am Pacific, 10 am Mountain, 11am Central, noon Eastern US
Duration: 60-75 mins
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By Donna Kozik, guest writer

Most of us were taught we should be happy and thankful for what we have.  I agree — gratitude is a key element of happiness.  Most of us were told as children that there are many others who are far less fortunate than us.  I agree — there are many whose lives are a daily struggle just to survive and meet the most basic of needs.

I believe our parents had good intentions by teaching us those things.  They wanted us to grow up to be happy, grateful and unselfish people.  They didn’t want us to be greedy and unappreciative.  But many of them — through no fault of their own — didn’t balance those lessons out with the permission or encouragement we needed to grow up and DREAM BIG.

Consequently, many of us are afraid to be successful, to be rich, or to even think BIG — because it’s in contradiction to much of our core conditioning.  The majority of us don’t even realize we’ve been programmed to expect less and demand less from life.  And often those of us who do give ourselves permission to dream just stay comfortable with the dream and never really take the steps to turn those dreams into reality.

Now there’s no point and no time to waste being angry with your parents.  They did the best they could with what they knew and with whatever conditioning they endured. I only bring this to your attention in case you’re one of the people who have been lulled into settling for less or into thinking small. By being aware of it, you can begin to change it.

Life, by its very nature, is designed to grow, to evolve and to become more than it started out as.  You do not need to worry that having your fair share will prevent another from having theirs.  There is more than enough success, money, food and anything else you can imagine to go around.

Is it nice to share?  You bet.  Is it good energy to spread your good fortune around?  You bet.  But let’s be clear about one thing  — the universe loves it when you dream big and think big.  One tree’s largeness does not prevent any other trees from growing big.

Recently I took part in #WriteChat (Sunday afternoons on Twitter).  I got into a conversation with an aspiring author who is sending out his manuscript to not one, not five but to a hundred agents at once.  Good for him!

First there’s the practical.  Don’t you agree he’s bound to get a better agent pursuing 100 versus five?  (When’s the last time you “went big” in pursuing more pages written?  More prospective clients contacted?)  Then, there’s the energy he’s bringing his book project.  No sitting home alone and “woe is me” going on there — he’s taking action and making relationships.  Something good — probably even better than he initially imagined — is bound to happen!

So why not challenge yourself to begin expanding your horizons right this very minute?  Imagine more, not less.  Think bigger, not smaller.  And open yourself up to abundance and opportunities.

About Donna Kozik
Donna Kozik is a business owner, 2-time award-winning author, and a member of the Friar Faithful.  You can find out more about her signature “Write a Book in a Weekend” virtual online events and get a free “12 Strategies to Becoming a Published Author” report at http://WriteWithDonna.com.  This article © 2010 Donna Kozik & Associates, Inc.

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Healer #1  |  13 August 2010, 8am Pacific / 9am Mountain / 10am Central / 11am Eastern US time

Bee Jimpson  ~  The Next Sense
Professional Healer, Intuitive, and Intuition Teacher

Bee was raised in a culturally mixed home (Egyptian, Spanish, European and Quechua) in Argentina where traditional or folk healing was commonly used.  It wasn’t until much later in her life, however, that she stepped into her own power as a healer.  Today Bee travels the world to mentor other healers (including me) and teach people how to accept and truly use their intuition.  Join us to hear about her powerful journey!

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Healer #2  |  13 August 2010, 11am Pacific / noon Mountain / 1pm Central / 2pm Eastern US time

Sheri McConnell  ~  Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning
Author, Millionaire Business Coach, and Mom of 4

Sheri helps women start and grow membership-based businesses to attain financial independence, so they can make powerful life decisions from a place of abundance and balance, not from a place of poverty, fear, doubt, and “what if”.  As you might guess, she has recovered from being in that position too many times herself.  Today, she is the author of  Smart Women Know Their “Why” – A Guide for Discovering Your Life Purpose While Owning a Business So You Can Create Positive Change in the World (and Make Big Profits!)  Join us to hear Sheri’s powerful story of healing and how she helps others today.  (P.S. She is my business coach this year for the Institute.)

Speaker:  Daria Boissonnas, Founder, Global Institute for Awakening

“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
–William Shakespeare, 12th Night, Act II, Scene V

I would rewrite that quote to say “Awakening” instead of greatness. Do you have intuitive, empathic, psychic or healing abilities that were almost thrust upon you? Do your abilities seem strange or make you uncomfortable? Do you feel different from others because of how you experience life? What can you do?

First of all, you’re not weird, you’re Awakening. But some of us are definitely thrown on our path by accident, illness, life crisis, or the development of psychic or healing abilities. Join us for this call and hear what Daria has to say after 12 years of working with folks like you (and being one herself).

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Do you seek success?  Do you have a dream? The good old dictionary says success is the favorable end of an effort.  It means reaching a goal or finishing a task.  In a nutshell,
done = success.

Done won’t get you your dreams, however.  Sure, completion is  important, but if all I did was finish the tasks my busy life demands — paying bills, going to work, doing the laundry (woohoo!) — would I be a success?  Would I have truly succeeded at life?  What is missing in this equation?

I personally learned the answer the hard way.  In my early 30s, I followed the dotted lines and achieved everything a girl could possibly want.  My life was picture-perfect.  I was dripping in success.

But I felt miserable and stuck.  I was missing something BIG.  I was missing True Success.

Success Comes in Two Flavors: Temporary and True

Most of the time I say “success,” I mean an idea more like the dictionary’s second definition:  the attainment of wealth, achievement, position, bliss, fame, honor, etc.  This is more than finishing a task.  It goes beyond reacting to your life, beyond just getting by, and beyond coloring inside the lines.  It’s not the kind of success you have to repeat to keep moving forward, like doing laundry is.

This kind of success is an achievement!  It takes you to a new level.  Not only do you finish something, but it is bigger and different than what you had before.  Maybe you want to find the love of your life, live your ideal lifestyle in style, heal yourself of pain and bad habits, or achieve a big goal like making a million bucks before you turn 40.  True success does this in a meaningful, permanent way.  What does your heart desire?

To qualify as True Success, an achievement must have three traits:

1. It came from inside YOU. It began as a decision, a dream, or a choice.  You didn’t follow or just “go along” with someone else’s example or dictates.  You chose to reach for this, and you chose to take steps to implement it.

2. It’s a new direction. True success takes you off the path, out of your well-worn habits of thinking and doing.  You change the direction you would have gone, had you kept doing what you were doing.  Your trajectory changes.  Wonderful things happen you’d never expected or asked for.

3. It sticks. Something shifts and you can’t go back.  You don’t lose it again.  Spiritually, you have “realized” it, really gotten it on all levels in a way that changes who you are.  From there, you can easily help others achieve something similar.  That’s true success.

That’s what we teach you to achieve, right here at the Global Institute for Awakening!

Because true success happens naturally when you advance in your life’s journey of Awakening. True success and Awakening describe the same upshift, the same expansion.  Actively walking your life’s journey means leaving the old ways behind and rising in an upward spiral to greater and greater Potential and possibility — for you, your life, and your loved ones around you.

When you don’t reach for true success, you have temporary success. Whatever you just did, you will likely need to do again, or something similar, over and over.  You will stay in about the same place or advance slowly.  If you do achieve  what looks like True Success, it will slip through your fingers again. 

If it doesn’t stick, it wasn’t True Success.  You didn’t shift.

What to Do to Truly Succeed

True success flows naturally from our true nature, which grows, expands positively, loves, serves, and evolves into higher and higher Potential ways of being.  When you learn how that process — the spiritual journey — works, you can reach for the True Success and lift all of us up into a better way of being.  I believe the world could use a whole lot of this right now!

Whatever your goals, this process requires the 7 tasks of Awakening.  (For details and a list of suggestions for each step, get a free copy of our ebook and visual map of the steps in the header bar above.)  They are:

1.  Know Yourself

2.  Build Your Base

3.  Explore Possibility in the World

4.  Be the Change (Practice/Train)

5. Move Beyond Doubt

6. Let Go of Resistance

7. Step It Up (make the next Decision)

So ask yourself:  Do I want to get by?  Do I want to succeed in doing what I did yesterday… again?

Or do I want to dream and move forward into new exciting territory that has a higher Potential for wealth, wellness and wisdom for me, and through me for others?

THAT is the core result of Awakening.  You can’t uplevel without Awakening.  Awakening creates true success.

Are you ready to learn how to shift into true success, over and over, in ANY situation in your life? Make sure you’re working in all 7 tasks, ablove.  If you want help, join as a member to declare your goal to the Universe that you are creating True Success in your life over the next 12 months!

We know you have it in you.  You have a valuable gift for the world to share.  Your nature is to grow and expand and help others.  You can do this!!

Many, many blessings to you on your personal journey of Awakening and true success!

You are a spiritual being of consciousness. Your Potential to help, uplift, and heal is unlimited. 

On the other hand, you live in a world with limits, move around in a physical body with limits, and run your life with a limited, logical (emotional) mind.  Your everyday life is very “loud” with deadlines, sensory inputs, and probems. 

Your spiritual being is very “quiet” and subtle.  It can be challenging to connect with, espeically at first.  Your spiritual self can be easy to overlook or forget about in the daily bustle.

But some part of you knows there is more to life than you can see, buy, or measure.  You can likely feel this part of you calling to you.  It becomes particularly noticeable at times we humans tend to upshift our lives:  during life crises, in your teens, around age 28-30, in our forties, and our mid- to late 50s, for instance.  Here’s why:

Every single person on this planet has something important and unique to contribute to the world in a positive way.  Whether you call that your life purpose, your spiritual mission or your blessing, you have a natural ability in some way to bring a better way of being, thinking, and loving into this world.  You have a talent for helping people love to live their lives more.  We each do this in very different ways,  but we each have something crucial to contribute. 

When you don’t get your gift or blessing out into the world, you feel a kind of ache.  Some call this your spiritual calling.  Whatever you call it, if you ignore it, it gets louder and louder until you respond.  It may eventually cause extreme discomfort or crisis in your life until it triggers a response.  Over the years, clients have described their experiences as:

• Vague dissatisfaction or boredom, even though your life seems pretty darn good on the surface…
• Feeling cut off, lonely in a crowd, like nobody understands you…
• A constant search:  new jobs, new classes, new schools, new locations, new partners…
• An aching emptiness or longing, like a part of you or a close relative has died…
• Continuous pushback from the world, nothing working out well, feeling like a mess-up…
• Painful experiences like an accident, illness, death of a loved one, divorce, job loss, finanical failure, etc. that snap you out of your fog.
• A feeling you should be doing… something… but you don’t know what.

This is your greater potential (some say your higher self) aching to be let out of its box, to do good in the world and help you live a meaningful life that makes a big difference.  This is built into you.  It is your nature and your birthright.  And part of you always is aware of your gifts. 

It’s Time to Walk Forward into Your Potential

Many us can hear our purpose and Potential calling to us, but too few know what to do about it.  The soution is: walk your spiritual path.  Get a move on.  Allow your Awakening to unfold.  Taking the leap will help you find that missing part of yourself.  You will love the results.

Don’t leap blindly, of course.  Leap wisely by learning about the journey and how to read the signs along the way.   Do this, and you will see doors open for you.  You can find a way out of your struggles and into the light again.

You might be able to muddle through this life puzzle, this natural process called Awakening.  Or like I was, you may be really stuck and need some help.  Even if you’re a muddler, some guidance and training can make the journey much clearer, easier, and faster.  You can get that spiritual perspective from a mentor you trust, one who believes in you and who can support you advancing along your own path.  Consider joining Global Institute for Awakening with an annual membership full of guidance and inspiration.

Because it took me so long to find this information and get going on my own path, I offer you everything I’ve learned so far, plus stellar supporting advice from experts in their fields, here at the Global Institute for Awakening.  Take a copy of our free Spiritual Journey Wake-Up Kit with our blessings and no further obligation, in the header bar above.  Check our articles in the Category section to the right.

Without your gift, the world just isn’t whole.  Your spiritual being knows this and you can feel it.  I know this, and I’d love to use my gifts to support you here.

Check back tomorrow for the final fact #5 about your Awakening:  Success comes only from Awakening.

What would you do if the solution you were looking for — no, an even better one you hadn’t thought of yet — was waiting for you on the other side of an unlocked door?  You’d open the door and walk through, right?

Of course.

Like this door, the process of Awakening brings new solutions into your life.  It allows you to see beyond your current troubles and zap those limitations.  It gives you the steps and the tools you need to expand into your greatest Potential to live a meaningful life and make a difference. 

All you have to do is step forward and open that door.

It can be a bit tricky, however.  Sometimes that unlocked door looks like a difficult task, one you might even label “impossible” at the time.  You may need to let go of something or change your tactics.  It can be stressful, and you may tend to avoid taking action.  But simply by understanding a few facts about your spiritual journey, you can recognize new doors to magical new solutions in your life, and step through them.

Once you understand that it is much easier to allow Awakening and this type of change than it is to resist it, and once you come to trust this fact through your experiences, you will be much better able to push yourself through those doors and into your dreams.  Lots of doors!

Solve the Human Struggle

We’re human.  Our brains are actually hard-wired to be afraid of change, to fear the unknown.  We are wired to prefer predictability and routine.  If we did it yesterday, it will suit today, even if it is painful.  We tend to worry about the future, numb ourselves to pain, and resist change.  You can change this by Awakening.

Most of the pain and struggle in human life comes from resisting our spiritual journey.  It comes from hanging on to things better let go of, ignoring “lessons” and insights, or refusing to change our habits after we do learn a better way.  We suffer when we refuse to get help or ask questions, when we demand that others change first, or we say it doesn’t matter when it does.  That’s our hard-wired, culturally-strengthened human stubbornness, fear of change, and fear for the future at work.

In contrast, our higher or spiritual nature is hard-wired to grow and expand.  It is a powerful force within us that naturally uplifts us into a higher Potential for joy and helping others.  It longs to help, empower, enable, inspire, and heal.  And it shows us new and better doors and solutions all the time, though we aren’t so good at seeing these doors for what they are. 

Awakening means shifting out of our brain’s fear and doubt reaction into an expansive, can-do mindset.  You can do this in your life by learning about the process of Awakening, testing it, trusting it, and practicing stepping forward.  (It does become much easier with practice.)

Are You Spiritually Bound and Tied?

For a thousand years in China they used to bind women’s feet, starting in childhood, to keep them tiny.  Like your higher nature and Life itself, however, is the nature of children’s feet to grow, and it is essentially impossible to stop this growth.  The binding itself was severely painful and so were the resulting deformed feet.  This practice was deemed cruel and finally outlawed in 1911. 

Yet I look around me and see people who have bound themselves spiritually.  Is this not cruel, too?  They restrict themselves with other people’s tiny ideas of how they should be, or they hold back from following their dream.  They do what they did yesterday.  And in doing so, they have stunted their spiritual growth.  This is extremely painful, so they do their best to numb out. 

As humans, we naturally grow and expand spiritually and psychologically our whole lives.  We learn, let go, and move on to learn more.  When we get stuck in our routines, we bind our souls with limitation.  It is painful.  (It distorts your perspective on life, too.  The world seems an ugly horrible place because for you, spiritually, it is.)

On the other hand, when you trust the process of your higher nature and step into that Awakened mindset of expansion, you learn you can create anything you want, now or in the future.  End of fear and worry.  You begin to see there are unlocked doors and solutiosn everywhere.  You just hadn’t noticed before. 

And by trusting the process and opening those doors, over and over, you learn that even when there is some work or temporary pain involved in opening that unlocked door, it is much better on the other side.

It is easier to allow your Awakening process than to bind it in a small-thinking, small-living life.

The human struggle is built into us: an eternal, internal tussle between our greater spiritual nature of possibility, growth, and “yes”, with our limited physical/mental nature of doubt, worry, ”not enough”, and “what if…”  

Neither side is ”good’ or “bad”, it’s how we are.  The truth is simply this:  to live a happy, productive, meaningful life we must each learn to harmonize our spiritual and physical natures.  We must get them working together.

When we don’t have a process for growth, the suffering can get worse.  Do you know someone who has been thrust on their spiritual path not by a desire to explore their greatest potential to make a difference, but by sudden and devastating loss of some kind: an accident, illness, relationship breakup, natural disaster, death of a loved one, or financial loss?  This type of trauma foces us to look at the areas where our spiritual growth is stunted.  We are forced to figure out what ‘s important in life, to admit we were unhappy, and to find a deeper, more authentic source of joy.

Pain and suffering forces us to make progress on the spiritual journey of Awakening.

Allowing Your Awakening Sets You Free

By starting today to understand and walk your spiritual journey, however, I believe you can avoid potential pain and suffering in the future.  What you need is some basic information about the journey and a daily spiritual practice to keep you moving forward.  (Grab our free ebook in the header above to start, no obligation!  Membership offers a non-religious spiritual practice focus each month.)

Clients and spiritual teachers tell me stories all the time about how it was easier, in hindsight, to move through some challenge that shifted them into a more expansive way of being than it was to stay small and suffering.  It was easier to let go of the avoidance and fears, though they felt no solution was viable at the time, and step onto the path of personal Awakening.  I know this from my own challenging spiritual journey, too!

Walking your spiritual path lets you out of your cage.  Awakening creates healing in your life, even in your body and mind.  Awakening allows you to forgive,  to forget, to stop being so angry or so sensitive, to stop needing ice cream or alcohol or another vacation or that other thing to soothe you.

The natural process of Awakening transforms not only your pain into healing and joy, but helps reduce the struggle of those around you, too.  You become an example for them, a role model, even on an energetic level if you never discuss it with another person. 

I hope you too can see now that it is, in fact, easier to allow your Awakening than to struggle against it.  You are a valuable human being, a work of art in my opinion.  I wish you all the best in unfolding your greatest Potential through Awakening.  Go open that door!

Tomorrow:  Fact #4  Your Awakening is calling to you… can you hear it?