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Aloha! Can you believe the first month of the new year has all but completely left the barn?!

I was thinking about 2013 recently and all the potential and possibility that’s wound up tight inside these next 11 months—so much joy and positive energy and action just waiting to unfold.

But of course, depending on the thoughts we choose and the actions we take, all manner of things can unfold; not just the “good” stuff.

There are so many possible paths and so many possible choices leading from one path to another. And every day we’re asked again and again to make the best choice we can, usually in the “worst” possible moment.

The funny thing is, these so-called worst moments can become the best moments with the mere “flick” of a thought.

It’s all in how we choose to perceive what’s happening around us and within us that determines the action we’ll take and whether or not we stay on the best possible path our higher self has already figured out is perfect for us.

You know, the path that is filled with joy and gratitude and happiness instead of worry, fear, anger and lack.

That’s why it’s SO important to train your mind when the pressure isn’t on so that when things DO get crazy, you already know how to compensate and automatically make the best possible choice for your present and future life.

You really do have the power to create the reality you want to experience!

It just takes practice and some help from someone who’s already been down a few of the best (and worst) paths…

Today I’m announcing the opening of a new session of my Mentoring Program and you’re invited to apply for a spot if you think you’re ready to get serious about filling your life with more happiness, joy, gratitude, peace and abundance.

There are only four slots available for this session and the window of opportunity is a small one this time.

I’ll be accepting applications starting today and closing applications on Sunday, February 3^rd.

Everyone whose application is approved will receive a free, one-hour private session with me where we’ll work on anything you’d like to focus on. This is the same $225 private session that is always available, but we’ll also be checking in to see if we’re a good fit and whether the Mentoring Program will be right for you.

With mentoring, I find it’s important that we both are committed and excited about the process and that you’ll be in it for the long haul. While a 1-hour session can often be a powerful quick fix for a current problem, it’s the commitment to consistent lessons and practice over time that really create the kind of life-changing results that we all want.

What to do next…

Fill out the Mentoring Program application and start the process now… I will only accept four students during this next session and there is a limit to the number of free sessions I’m offering as well. The earliest qualifying applicants go to the front of the line and will receive their 1-hour session first. I’ll let you know via email whether you qualify and I’ll send you a special link to sign up for a session time with me then.

I absolutely look forward to joining you on your journey into a brighter and joy-filled future!

With much love and aloha,

Susan

… And creating whatever you want when you want

You already do have that magic wand. I call it your filter system: your beliefs, agreements, assumptions and attitudes. Your filter system creates your experience of reality. When you change your filter system, you can profoundly change your life for the better.

When I say change your life though, it’s easy to feel like that sounds too vague or even impossible.

What do I mean by a better life? Obviously it’s different for everyone, and at the risk of sounding materialistic, I feel that creating the life of your dreams is not necessarily just about blissing out and never feeling pain again.

Truly, when you learn to control your thoughts, feel your true emotions and understand the way you perceive and respond to the reality you live in every day, you really CAN have things like peace, joy and understanding.

And when we are grounded in a more accurate view of our life and the energy systems we live in and are, it makes it that much easier to “create” the things we need and want, even the more material things like a better job, more time, the perfect relationship, the waistline we always wanted, or the happiness with our waistline just the way it is, etc.

But throughout my life and personal journey on this path, I’ve found that I was never quite able to do it by myself and there were many times I’d wished for a mentor and didn’t know where to look. I hope that if you’re at that stage in life where you could really use a little help, you’ll take that next step and begin the mentoring process, whether it’s with me, or someone else. It’s really the secret to amazing growth and change!

I have been helping people change their filter system for over 25 years now and one of the things I love most about my work is watching people’s lives change for the better.

Last week I started sharing a series of videos where I teach you some of the fundamental tools that I’ve used to effect powerful change. These exercises can easily be underestimated though because they really are so simple and easy to do. Do them anyway and see what happens!

The videos are short and you can start using these tools right now to change your world. Here are three of the them to get you started:

Don’t even go there

One of my mentors gave me many wonderful gifts and this is one of my favorite. It helps you change those limiting thoughts and get off the emotional hamster wheel.

Random acts of kindness and gratitude

I think one of the most powerful spiritual practices, guaranteed to change your life is practicing gratitude. I also love the idea of random acts of kindness. In this video I talk about both and how to use them to change your life.

Learning to love yourself

This is SUCH an important tool and I really hope you’ll give it a try.

I’ll be posting more videos in the coming days. If you have a specific topic you would like to see me talk about in a video just post your question in the comment section. If you aren’t currently receiving these new videos, but would like to, all you have to do is subscribe to the Daily Reflections (in the sidebar to your right) and you’ll not miss any.

My six-week teleclass, “Creating What You REALLY Want” will be starting Tuesday, November 13th. I can tell you without a doubt that it will be amazing, life changing and incredibly powerful. Subscribe to the Daily Reflections and you’ll also be notified about new videos and get great daily inspiriational email messages.

The class is now open for registration! Click here to learn more and register…

With love and aloha,
Susan

Aloha!

In this video I talk about how we can use altered states of consciousness to make real changes in our lives.

Using the power of guided visualization, you alter the way you respond to events in your life by practicing in your mind beforehand.

Guided meditations help us practice visualization and the better we get at visualization the more effective it is in helping us change our brains and, ultimately, our lives.

I know you have probably heard it a million times by now that meditation is good for you, etc. Etc., and maybe you’ve wanted to learn how but thought it was too time-consuming, or difficult because you thought you couldn’t visualize.

Here’s the thing: everyone can visualize. Even if you feel you’re no good at it; even if you tell me you think you “couldn’t visualize yourself out of a wet paper bag” I say pshaw.

The truth is, you CAN do it. In fact, the very act of attempting to visualize actually switches on areas of your brain that were dark and unused before you made the attempt. Over time, as you continue to practice, you will find that no matter how bad you thought you were at it, you become very competent. Eventually you’ll find it hard to believe you ever doubted yourself even the least little bit.

So watch the video and try it for yourself. See how it works and let me know in the comments how you did and whether it brought up any questions for you. I’d love too hear how it went!

And in the mean time, I’m very excited to tell you that I’ve re-opened the Monthly Guided Meditation series and it will now stay open for good.

I’ve gotten wonderful feedback from the first subscribers who got started a few weeks ago too and I’d like to share a couple of their comments:

“… I am a single working mom of a teenage boy. This week, I have been juggling work, jury duty and…[a lot more]…so amid all that is going on in my world, your meditations are something I am dearly looking forward to. I am so grateful that I was able to be counted in the initial group at such an affordable cost.

Your daily reflections are such a main-stay for me and most definitely are food for my soul.”
—G

“I enjoyed [the meditations] quite a bit, especially the sunflower one. My goal is to truly do this every day, I’ve known intellectually for years that meditation is helpful but the “just do it” hasn’t happened. I’m looking forward to some peace and pleasant feelings…”
—B

“I have been doing this work for 2 1/2 years now, mostly on my own. Last weekend was a particularly dark time for me and your meditations and the Art of Allowing videos helped me a lot. Thank you so much for getting it to me.”
—J

Additionally, the introductory price for the Monthly Guided Meditations will still be good for another week or so.

If you think you’d like to give it a try, I really encourage you to see how they work for you. I’ve made the first month an extremely good deal with extra meditations and a great ebook to help you get even more out of the monthly series—all part of the first month’s price.

Check out the Monthly Guided Meditations and see if this special program is for you…

With much love and aloha,
Susan

Aloha,

You may be familiar with my guided meditations and the fact that I include a short guided meditation in my free, bi-weekly podcast, Food for the Soul.

What you may NOT know is that I get a lot of requests for more meditations than I have available on my site as well as for more specific types of meditations or longer ones that go deeper and address specific issues.

So, based on your requests, I’ve created a brand new program that will give you exclusive access to new and better meditations.

I’ll be officially opening this new program to everyone very soon, but in the mean time I wanted to let you know about it and offer early access to you because you’re a reader and member of the community.

I’ll only accept a few new members at a time for this new program.

So here’s how it will work…

Because this is a brand new program, I’m only accepting 10 subscribers at a time to be sure I don’t overwhelm the system.

Once I’m sure that everyone is completely thrilled with the program, I’ll send out a few more invites.

While I’m limiting enrollment, you’ll be able to subscribe for a lower price than when I finally announce it to the world.

As of today I’m accepting the first 10 members and you can read more about it and sign up at the link below. If you try to sign up and it says “not working” or something similar that just means the 10 spots are taken.

But don’t despair. You can get on the early Monthly Meditations notification list and I’ll send out new invitations in the order that each person joined this list.

All the details and the subscription buttons are here though and you can email me with any questions you might still have after reading about it:

Click here to learn more about the new Monthly Guided Meditations…

With love and aloha,

Susan

PS – Don’t underestimate the power of guided meditation to heal and help you create a completely different and happier life. When the mind and body are in balance, your overall health can improve.

Meditation is one of the most powerful ways to achieve mind/body balance and by using guided meditation, you can quickly learn to use your imagination and the power of visualization to accelerate your ability to enter a balanced and peaceful state. The more time you spend in this state, the more healing of all types is possible.

For years I was a loner. I didn’t believe in depending on anyone or anything. I thought I could figure life out by myself and I spent many years trying to do just that. But at one point it dawned on me that every single unhappy day I stumbled through was almost identical to the previous one. And on that day I decided it was time to really change my life—to finally see if I could figure out if ending the pain and suffering was possible and how to do it.

At first I read books on spirituality and applied myself sort of randomly to the task of finding joy and peace. I would spend a little time thinking about how great it would be to have a better life and I’d be excited about it for a while. But then my excitement would wane and I’d find myself back where I started: depressed and nowhere closer to my spiritual goals.

Even though I felt I really wanted it, pursuing a spiritual life by myself was hard. In fact, it turned out to be impossible. I couldn’t stay focused and disciplined and it meant I didn’t make any real progress. My choice to go it alone didn’t work very well at all.

Over time I did make some small progress and life started improving slowly as my spiritual journey became an important part of my life, but it was taking forever and that too was a reason for me to feel depressed about it all.

The real turning point was the moment when one of my first teachers pointed out that, “…it’s hard to return to being one when you are doing it alone.” The way she said it made me laugh and I got it. (more…)

In this video I talk about what a mentor is and what one isn’t. I discuss some of my own experience working with my past mentors and I hope I make clear just how powerful, supportive and life-changing mentorship can be.

Questions and ideas explored in this video:

• What is a mentor?
• How does mentoring help you explore your beliefs?
• What a mentor ISN’T.
• What the mentoring relationship is really all about.

 
My Transformational Mentoring Program is still open for a little bit longer (until midnight February 1, 2012) and there is still a place left for you if you are ready.

You can find out more and apply here: Transformational Mentoring Program

The Words Behind the Words

When my mother was a young girl, she wanted to be a poet. Her teacher made fun of her poetry and my mom believed her. Based on her teacher’s opinion my mother gave up her dream. Each time I got my report card, my mother would be furious that I had once again flunked English. One day she gave me a thesaurus and I began to explore the meanings of words. Sometime later I was writing a story about a village and found the word ‘quaint.’ I can still remember the big red circle the teacher put around that word with her comment – great word!

I don’t think I ever told my mother I loved words and she died before I began writing. Today I am a wordsmith – I love words and have found great freedom through my writing. I achieved that freedom by giving myself permission to change my definitions of words like responsibility and fault, love and intimacy (I now think of it as into me see), and by breaking all the unspoken agreements I had with my parents, my friends, and society as a whole. (more…)

December 2003

The holiday season is upon us. A friend of mine told me last week a woman was trampled trying to get to the DVD sales table at Walmart. Over the years I’ve had many opinions about the holiday season. I’ve gone from looking forward to it all year as a child, ignoring it and hating it as a young adult, to looking at it as a time to reflect, share love, and see how far I’ve come in creating peace.

Whenever I think of the holidays I always think of the phrase, “Peace on earth, goodwill to all, and to all a good night.” I like to think of the holidays as holy days. This is the time of year that the sun changes courses in the heavens. What if we set our intent to change the course of our thinking as well?

I have had many discussions with people lately about peace and war. Of one thing I am sure, peace on earth is impossible if peace doesn’t live within each of us. Peace of mind and judgment can’t really coexist. (more…)

The Crone: A Spiritual Perspective of Menopause
By Dr. Susan Gregg

An article from the spring issue of Creations Magazine

As I explored my own femininity, I found that I had no problem with the spiritual stages of the maiden or the mother but I avoided thinking about old age and the crone stage. I remember the first time I heard the word crone. I immediately had a vision of a very old woman with a hooked nose and a hairy wart on her chin. There was absolutely no room in that vision for the dignity, wisdom and grace actually embodied in that stage of our evolution.

When I was a young girl my Father sat me down one day and told me my Mother would be a little crazy for the next few years, so be nice to her. Those were the only words ever spoken in my family about menopause. As I approached menopause I could feel my body going through changes and I knew I was entering another phase of my life. After some inner exploration I realized I equated menopause with a time of emotional instability and physical discomfort. (more…)

Betrayal ~ a Guide to Intimacy?

How many times in your life have you felt betrayed or let down by other people, yourself, or society as a whole? When we feel betrayed the emotions we feel are so primal, they seem to go to the very core of our being. Once we learn to view betrayal differently that feeling can become a gateway toward greater intimacy and a deeper connection to ourselves.

We all know what betrayal feels like but what is it really? The word comes from an old French verb that means to hand over or deliver up. The dictionary defines it as treachery, the disappointment of ones hopes and expectations, or to reveal, disclose, show, or exhibit.

I have found that betrayal can serve two very useful functions in my life that have very little to do with blaming the other person. They both have to do with me; my feelings of betrayal reveal my ability to communicate clearly and my willingness to take responsibility without blaming or judging myself or the other person. (more…)