“Moooooom! Can you do something for my leg? It hurts!” 

My 15-year-old is in his tuxedo for the band concert, running upstairs for socks.

“What do you mean your leg hurts?” I ask, concerned, following him to the bottom of the stairs.

He turns the corner towards his room.  “I dunno, it’s just been hurting behind my knee and in my leg all day.”

A couple hours earlier, I had returned from a training class for a powerful new form of healing called Awakening Healing.  (Officially I am the first practitioner trained in all of North America so far!)  As my son ducks into his room for the socks, I raise my hands. 

“I’ll try the new thing I just learned, OK?”  I say, focusing on listening to his knee and legs. 

He returns right away and sits at the top of the stairs to put his socks on.  I wonder how much I’ll be able to do before he leaves.  Then I put on my Mom hat and start to wonder why his leg is hurting.

“Um, mom?” he says standing up with two socks on.

“Yeah?” I say, concentrating.

“It doesn’t hurt any more, thanks.”

Mouth open, I step aside as he speeds by me. 

Healing happens in an instant.  How fast we accept the healing results is how fast it “happens” in the physical world.  Kids are excellent at accepting fast healing, until we train them to expect it to take a long time!  Shift back into that childlike acceptance of the world’s abundance by practicing accepting ease and all good and wonderful things flowing to and through you.  Build that muscle, that habit, that mindset.  Healing IS the natural order of things.  It is the highest expression of human consciousness.

To experience the deep relaxation and inner connectedness of Awakening Healing yourself, visit this page: http://GIAwaken.com/AH

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

— Ansel Adams

I love this quote because it demonstrates Adams’ mastery. He durn well knows the standard rules of how to make a “good” photo.  And as a master, he knows how to break each one of them and still create a great photo.

Other masterful creatives have told me the same thing.  Last year a well-known makeup artist said she could tell me exactly what to wear to convey whatever message I had, and how to do my makeup.  But if I wore the wrong thing, she could adjust my makeup to “fix” any clothing faux pas.

Are you a master?  Remember that practicing specific methods or exercises only helps you develop skills. The method alone does not make you a master.  Practicing these skills with an open mind and good feedback leads to mastery.

In mastery you bypass other people’s rules and develop your own relationship with outcomes.  You find more ways to get there than you were ever taught.  In mastery, you don’t need your tools or methods or anything.

Eventually, we must let go of the ground to really fly.  For healers and creatives that means practicing until you internalize a method, and then creating the same results — or even better ones — your way.

This is the most powerful way to share the heart of your unique gifts and leave the world a better place.

At breakfast this morning, I told my daughter she was my favorite child and I loved her more than anyone else in the world.

She said no, that wasn’t true, I loved all my kids the same.

I smiled and said, exactly — I love each of them the best of all, more than anyone else in the world.

How is that possible? 

This concept came from a zen koan story I read many years ago.  It piqued my interest at the time because I LOVE puzzles and it made no sense!  How can each thing be the best? 

There are actually many ways to explain why and how this is true.  But understand this first: you can’t use logic to solve this puzzle.  Your logical, thinking mind categorizes and compares.  It ranks and sequences.  It draws straight lines between points.  It would say my statement was impossible.

Luckily we all have access to different types of consciousness, or thinking if you must call it that.  Our consciousness is like a rainbow, and the logical, thinking mind is merely one color.  My statement makes perfect sense when you are in a different slice of your consciousness.

For instance, try this:  the next time you are deep in a meditative or altered state, ask yourself how everything can be the best at the same time.   You will likely be able to see it then.  (Hint: your higher consciousness is not limited by the sequence of time, either.)

The Key to Healing and Leaving the World a Better Place

Our job as humans is to access the knowing we find at the higher levels of consciousness and bring that wisdom down into the world. The thinking mind is absolutely requred to live our daily lives, but it’s not all you have.  Accessing your greater consciousness changes the world.  It creates win-win mindsets and accesses permanent positive change nobody could have thought of.

Really, would you rather live in a world where everything was best of all, where everything was seen as a stepping stone to something even better?  Or do you prefer a small-thinking world where everything is either good or bad, where there are such things to overcome as negative, naughty, evil, painful, and hateful? 

Connecting with our higher knowing takes us to new and better places in our logical, physical world.  It opens doors.  It is the only thing that creates genuine, transformative healing.

Back to the puzzle.  Once you understand my statement “up there” in your greater consciousness, you can understand it logically in many ways.  For instance:

• Each person is unique.  If you are the only one of you, you must be my favorite one of you. 
• In that moment, enjoying my daughter’s presence, with nobody else in my perception, she is the only person in the world to me and therefore my favorite.
• Each person on the planet is equally valuable, therefore they all fall in the same value category, such as favorite.
• Your turn: In what other ways is each of my children my favorite?

What if each and every child was seen and valued as if they were the most precious child in the world?  This is not pollyanna thinking.  This is enlightened thinking.  It the only thing that creates positive change.

And for the record: you are my favorite reader, ever.

In 2001, I was learning to paint.  On my third project, while working on the water under my leaping dolphin, I boldly added a darker blue to the depths of the waves.  When I stepped back to see the effect, I was amazed.  It looked like a photo, not a painting.  Somehow, I’d done something to make the water look so real you could get wet touching it.  My mouth dropped open.  I did a happy dance.

Excited, I mixed my next color, a lighter blue.  (After all, if that was good, more would be better!)  When I was done applying that color, however, the realistic effect was completely gone.  It looked a painting of water again.

I couldn’t wash the last color off.  I couldn’t redo whatever I’d done with the darker blue because I wasn’t sure how I’d done that.  The effect ws gone. 

It was a little like winning the lottery and dropping the ticket down the drain. 

Learned:  good enough is great. 

Boy did I learn something!  If it’s good, it’s good and it doesn’t need any fixing.  Accept your good fortune.  Don’t overthink.  Be in the moment and enjoy it.

Today, I’d like to think I would stop when the water looked perfect.  I would accept the cool fluke with gratitude, laugh, enjoy it, and move on. 

The funny thing is, underneath the current state of the photo is that perfect picture.  I still have the gift, in the painting instead of on the surface of it, and a new insight to boot.

I’ve always wanted to paint.  In 2001, I took my first painting class from the local recreation program.  I thought of myself as a logical professional at the time, not an artsy type.  I bought the materials relying entirely on the list and the store clerk, shocked at the huge variety of paintbrushes.

I can see myself sitting at the easel in my dad’s old shirt one day, feeling guilty for asking mom to get the paints out for me, staring at the blank paper, needing to create something worthwhile… but completley blanking on WHAT I wanted to paint so badly.  Conclusion: Painting was too hard, too frustrating.  

Turns out, it wasn’t a class as much as an artist walking around the room for 2 hours.  My questions started with, “What do I do?”  Then, “What should I paint?”  She suggested a still life. 

Not having brought the requisite vase and fruit, I ran to the car and collected four plastic kid blocks out of the baby seat.  I followed her rough suggestions, outlining the blocks and attempting to shade them.

When I think of that class, all I remember is frustration and disappointment.  I couldn’t figure out shadows.  She didn’t tell me exactly how to do it.  The class was bad, I thought, the teacher was bad.  The teacher even said my painting was good — was she blind?!  I didn’t like the painting at all.  I was experiencing a world crisis! 

I used to get a sick feeling thinking of that first painting, but yesterday I dug it out and looked at it for the first time in a decade.  I was shocked to see it has a lot of promise for a first painting, though unfinished and unfinessed.  Looking with my eyes today, in fact, I think it’s great!  (And how appropriate: baby building blocks, LOL. See pic.) 

So Many Lessons Learned

1. All my angst was in my head.  It came from me, not the class.  I had expectations about the class, and because it was different than *I* demanded, I got upset.  Really upset.  I created a crisis and then lived the negative emotions and beliefs, for years and years afterwards, to my own detriment.  I did that a lot back then.

2. First paintings are masterpieces too: masterpieces of learning.  Now I see that since you never stop learning, you can let everything in your life be a masterpiece of learning!  Wow, you are SO good.

3. Things you do are never, ever as bad as you think.  Self-judgment is the worst.  We can be more cruel to ourselves than to anyone else.  Believe the compliments you get.  Write them down.  Repeat them to yourself.  You totally rock.

4. Get back up on the bike.  How can you judge your first painting?  Your first book?  Your first song?  Your first client’s results?  Keep going!  You are so much more than any single thing you do.

Will I take up painting again?  …Stay tuned…

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!

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Many blessings on your spiritual journey,

•  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 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

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Date: January 14, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern
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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.

Listen to these powerful intuitive consults where Daria taps the higher wisdom of each callers to ask what steps they can take to most effectively and efficiently reach their goal.  (Sometimes, it’s surprising!) 

Sign up and you’ll get the call-in info right away, as well as the audio page where you can listen to the calls any time afterwards.

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Jump on our Holiday Sale through midnight tonight

Check out our holiday sale on your own Clear Wisdom to get a jump start on 2011!  Tap Daria’s 5 wisdoms in one consult, leave your doubt in the dust, and save hundreds of dollars, too. 

Short page with sale prices is here:   http://GIAwaken.com/clear-wisdom

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!!

Dear Powerful Being of Compassion,

I hope you enjoyed the long holiday weekend!  We had a great family Christmas, very low key, fun and cosy for all the kids — the ones between 5 and 15, and the two 40-something kids as well. 

For the last month I have been SOOOooo looking forward to the new year.  There’s something magical about a clean calendar, a new accounting year, and a fresh start.  I love taking stock of all I’ve learned, deeply appreciating how far I’ve come and who has helped me get here, and deciding where I am going next.  We have the bubbly fruit juice, champagne, and flutes all lined up for a New Year’s eve celebration. 

How about you?  What do you love about the new year?  Do you do resolutions or not and why?  Tell us in the comments below!

Ever Long for All the Answers?

Tomorrow — tomorrow is even better than New Year’s for three brave volunteers.  Did you ever wish someone could just TELL you, step by step, exactly what to do to resolve a problem or reach a goal — once and for all? 

I know I have.  I’ve been frustrated and stuck trying something SO many different ways and STILL not knowing why it’s not working or what I’m doing “wrong”.

Luckily, all the answers are within you at all times.  Imagine my joy and honor to do that for my clients:  to help them tap their inner guidance and higher self to discover, step by step, exactly what to do to solve their challenges and reach their goals, once and for all. They learn how to PERMANENTLY  break limiting patterns with very simple exercises! 

It’s surprising what comes up.  Last week, one client needed to sing reguarly in front of an audience to better connect with Source and improve her life in all areas.  Another needed to get out of the house twice a day to break a food addiction.  Fascinating!

Tomorrow, Tuesday the 28th, you can hear me do this LIVE for three more brave souls from among our members & fans who boldly stepped up and said “yes please”.  Click here to register.

This type of session is usually done in private, but you have this rare opportunity to listen in to the magic on Tuesday.   Get the audio recordings too when you register for the free call, and you can listen any time.

Last week’s Clear Wisdom holiday gift call was powerful!  Tears were shed and great obstacles to following our volunteers’ spiritual callings were moved and removed!  (Also it was so powerful we got blown off the phone three times, and the conference service has no idea why.  Hopefully things will go more smoothly with a new number!  Click here to register and get it.)

Healing will flow through this session and to all who listen, so if you’d like to break through your own obstacles, please join us! 

Call In, Enjoy the Readings, Get Some Healing

Tomorrow/Tuesday the 28th:  3 MORE FREE Clear Wisdom holiday gifts!!!
Dates: Tuesday, December 28 & NOW JAN 4!
Time: 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern

Phone Number:  Register quickly here for the new phone number:  
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We charge nothing for these calls, but please check with your long distance carrier for any charges.

I look forward to connecting with you on these calls!

Many blessings,

Daria Boissonnas
Founder, Global Institute for Awakening

To give back to our beloved members and fans, we’ve given away six FREE Clear Wisdom intuitive consult calls this month!  Enjoy the magic.  Sign up now to receive the new call-in number as well as access to the recordings and case studies.  (Yes, we’ll be following a couple volunteers as they implement their assignments!)

Our volunteer callers are lined up for Tuesday, 12/28, with questions including:

• How to start a business
• Figuring out one’s life purpose
• Getting a book done
• And more

You can also hear the audio from Tuesday (12/21), when callers received guidance for:

• Where to focus in a busy life
• How to best give back
• How to improve a relationship
• Dealing with allergies
• The strugle of an addiction nobody knows about
• Where am I blocked to funding and expanding my business? And how do I move thru it?

Besides swimming in inspiration and ideas, when you listen to these calls, you tap into frequencies that can help you break through your own blockages, permanently.  Healing flows through Clear Wisdom sessions, and everyone who listens receives what they need.

What’s Clear Wisdom? 

Listen as GIA founder Daria Boissonnas asks the caller’s higher consciousness for the most robust, effective and efficient way they can break their patterns of limitation and reach the goals they seek!  Daria provides five wisdoms in one consult:

1. 13 years of healing expertise & experience helping folks permanently break through their own barriers
2. Life purpose expertise to help you know what you are on the planet to do and DO it
3. Years of business & marketing experience
4. Spiritual mentoring, helping you understand what’s going on in your life, and your role in the universe
5. And of course her lifelong empathic, psychic and channeling abilities

Sign Up Here

Sign up below and we’ll also send our special offer for your own personal Clear Wisdom session at over half off the usual price.  (Spaces are limited, and you must sign up by the end of 1/1/11!)  

Thanks, and we’ll connect with you on the call!

We had been shoveling snow for over an hour this afternoon.  It had been loads of giggles with the kids, but now the temperature was starting to drop.  The wind seemed to have frozen one side of my legs and face.  I was getting tired and we weren’t done.  

So guess what — my thinking mind ran with those facts, off in its own direction.  I thought of all the other valuable things I could be doing.  And all the reasons I should be doing those things instead of this.  Excuses, complaints, wishes, and guilt trips.  My mind was off my work.  All I could see was how much more there was to do.

Then I remembered our spiritual practice focus for this month:  being of service.  All you have to do is ask, “How can I be of the most service here?”  And do it.  This practice can snap you out of boredom, misery, self-pity, and worse.  Fast.

It worked. 

How could I be of most service?  The answer was to lift everyone’s flagging spirits.  (There was a LOT of snow!)  So I joked around with my kiddos.  We got silly.  I helped the littler ones sled down the front steps.

The answer was to keep shoveling, and I did.  Faster.

The answer was to appreciate the crisp air, the gorgeous snow, the beautiful way it looks on the pines.  And I took a long moment to do that.  I can see it even now as I type.  I’m so glad I paused for that.

Suddenly I was having fun again.  I was present in the moment.  I was appreciative.  And best of all, I was in service.  The rest of the time skittered by quickly.

Develop the Positive Habits of the Spiritually & Materially Successful

Shifting into service is a skill, a mindset and — if you practice it – a powerful habit that keeps you out of negative emotions, stuck places, and weighty thoughts that can make you sick or tired.  10 times a year we train our members in powerful success skills like this.  For 4-6 weeks, we practice each one using simple exercises.  This is a powerful program of inner change that allows you to become a better leader out in the world.  It empowers you to create outer change.

Master your life with 10 new masterful habits of the spiritually and materially successful.  Soar in 2011.  Join us here:  http://GIAwaken.com/benefits.

It’s here — Healing 101!

Have a few ideas about how to make the world a better place?  Empower yourself to do that by learning to think waaaaay beyond the box — that is, to think like a healer.

Discover how you already have the ability to do the “undoable,” change the “unchangeable” and make the “impossible” happen.

Register now to listen FREE to Healing 101 and learn:

1. What is healing?
(It’s so much more than physical repair of your body!)

2. Why is every person on the planet a natural healer?
(Just how are YOU a healer?)

3. What three main types or styles of healer are there?
(And which is yours?)

4. How can you awaken YOUR inner healer and tap into your own natural abilities to make a BIG meaningful difference?

5. Five things to listen for to benefit most from each call. Also download in our pdf Listener’s Guide on the listening page.

Once you register, we will send you a link to the listening page, including Healing 101 and our first four interviews.

Discover Our Groundbreaking “I Am A Healer” Series

Register for access to these free calls here and we will send you occasional emails as soon as new calls become available.

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!

You have a tremendous power within you — right now — to make a meaningful positive difference in other people’s lives.  To move beyond problems to a place where they simply become irrelevant:  to heal.

Join us as we celebrate our goal of bringing more healing into the world with our groundbreaking FREE interview series — “I Am A Healer”: 100 Inspiring Stories from Ordinary People Who Are Changing the World and How YOU Can Too.  To listen, all you have to do is register.  Then mark your calendar for Tuesday, November 30th at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern.

It doesn’t take much to awaken your natural Inner Healer.  Listen to this information-packed call led by Global Institute for Awakening Founder Daria Boissonnas, and expand your possibilities by learning:

1. What is healing?  (It’s so much more than physical repair of your body!)

2. Why is every person on the planet a natural healer?  (Just how are YOU a healer?)

3. What three main types or styles of healer are there?  (And which is yours?)

4. WHat you need to learn to awaken YOUR inner healer and tap into your own natural abilities to make a BIG meaningful difference

5. What to listen for on the calls. 

TO LISTEN TO THIS CALL, REGISTER FOR THE SERIES HERE:  http://GIAwaken.com/100healers

Register for this interview series right now, and listen to this introductory call with Daria Boissonnas, Founder of the Global Institute for Awakening.

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.”

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.