Brainstorm with Eric Maisel on Keeping Life Simple with Lorraine Wilson Mon. Nov. 15th at 6 pm PST / 9 pm EST
November 14, 2010 by Lorraine Wilson
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Dr. Eric Maisel is an author, family therapist and cultural observer and is widely regarded as America’s foremost creativity coach. His more than 30 books include Coaching the Artist Within, Creativity for Life, Creative Recovery, Fearless Creating and The Atheist’s Way. Dr. Maisel has written on a wide variety of subjects, from handling toxic criticism and performance anxiety to living the writing life in Paris and San Francisco, and his special interests are the classical existential themes of making meaning and taking personal responsibility. Dr. Maisel trains creativity coaches and meaning coaches, provides core trainings for the Creativity Coaching Association, and works with individual clients on issues of creativity and meaning.
Dr. Maisel holds degrees in philosophy (B.S.), psychology (B.A.), creative writing (M.A.), counseling (M.S.), and counseling psychology (PhD). He is a California licensed marriage and family therapist, hosts two shows on the Personal Life Media Network, and writes a monthly “Coaching the Artist Within” column for Art Calendar Magazine. He lectures and provides workshops nationally and internationally at venues like the Design Your Creative Life Conference in London, the New Shoes Creativity Day Conference in Antwerp, and the Paris Writers Workshop.
Dr. Maisel has presented on creativity issues and creativity coaching at venues like the American Psychological Association annual conference, the Romance Writers of America annual conference, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the American Conservatory Theater, the Writer’s Digest Writers Conference, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Savannah College of Arts and Crafts, and many more. He has given the keynote address at the Arizona State University Arts & Letters Faculty Convocation, the Oklahoma Writers Federation Annual Conference, the Win-Win Writers Conference, the 25th Annual International Lettering Arts Conference, the Jack London Writers Conference, the 2005 Indiana Community Arts Conference, and many other venues.
Dr. Maisel, who was born in the Bronx, raised in Brooklyn, and attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, now resides east of San Francisco in Walnut Creek, California. He has served as adjunct faculty at St. Mary’s College (Moraga, California) and founded and wrote Callboard Magazine’s “Staying Sane in the Theater” column.
Keeping Life Simple – Tell the truth
November 8, 2010 by Lorraine Wilson
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How many times in your life can you recall that you were not telling the truth to yourself or someone was not telling the truth to you? When we don’t speak the truth it brings suffering not only to ourselves but to those who are receiving it. I am of course not speaking of those little white lies everyone tells at some time or another in their life, I am speaking of the ones we create because we’re too afraid to tell the truth out of fear.
In this moment can you bring awareness to specific situations in your life where you decided not to tell the truth with some regularity? If you take the time to inquire why you told a lie in the first place, you might discover there was some form of fear attached to it. The fear could be that if you tell the truth your life circumstances may change or you may indeed see an aspect of yourself you are not ready to deal with and the choice then becomes to stay in denial of what is.
If you want to be free of any lie you have created in your life it’s time right now to make a conscious decision to STOP and simply be free of the lie by telling the truth. When we tell lies it keeps us from celebrating who we really are and we cannot begin to know how our lie impacts other people’s lives . Many people are very intuitive and can sense when someone is not telling the truth. Although we may not like hearing a particular truth it is much more acceptable than being told a lie as it brings up many other emotions such as deceit, anger, resentment etc.
Recall times in your life when you didn’t tell the truth or someone was not telling you the truth and you might see there was some form of suffering involved. When we tell the truth it allows others to make choices based on the truth, but when we make decisions based on lies it changes lives and usually not in a positive way. Sometimes we don’t tell the truth because we don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings, but there is always a way to tell the truth with compassion and kindness. Ask yourself are you willing to stand up and honor yourself by always telling the truth, no matter what? Pay attention next time you tell a lie and do some investigation as to why you told the lie in the first place and, more importantly, make a conscious decision to STOP telling lies from this moment forward.
There appears to be a belief system that if you tell the truth about who you are you will not be loved or accepted. And the truth is some people may choose to not be part of your life as a result of speaking YOUR truth and remember your truth is not necessarily someone elses truth, but you can always live in freedom when telling the truth.
The following was written by Marianne Williamson it’s one of my favourites, see if it resonates with you.
OUR DEEPEST FEAR
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Dr. Tsabary’s conscious approach to parenting on Keeping Life Simple with Lorraine Wilson Mon. Nov. 1st at 6pm PST/9pm EST
November 1, 2010 by Lorraine Wilson
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Written by Namaste author Shefali Tsabary, PhD, with the Preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and advance acclaim by authors Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Wiliamson, Marci Shimoff, Laura Berman Fortgang, and other leaders in the field of parenting, this is the book we’ve all been waiting for.
This innovative parenting style recognizes the child’s potential to spark a deep soul-searching leading to transformation in parents. Instead of being merely the receiver of the parents’ psychological and spiritual legacy, children function as ushers of the parent’s development.
Once parents are learning alongside their children, power, control, and dominance become an archaic language. Instead, mutual kinship and spiritual partnership are the focus of the parent-child journey.
Parents unwittingly pass on an inheritance of psychological pain and emotional shallowness. To handle the behavior that results from this, traditional books on parenting abound with clever techniques for control and quick fixes for dysfunctionality.
In contrast, in Dr. Tsabary’s conscious approach to parenting, children serve as mirrors of their parents’ forgotten self.
The parent who is willing to look in the mirror has an opportunity to establish a relationship with their own inner state of wholeness.
Once a parent finds their way back to their essence, they enter into communion with their children. The pillars of the parental ego crumble as the parent awakens to the ability of their children to transport them into a state of presence.
Heart-Broken Open with Kristine Carlson on Keeping Life Simple with Lorraine Wilson Mon. Oct. 25th at 6pm PST/9pm EST
October 22, 2010 by Lorraine Wilson
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Kris Carlson had an idyllic life. She and her husband Richard had a romantic marriage, two beautiful daughters, and—thanks to the success of Richard’s bestselling Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff series—all of the comforts of the American Dream.
But on December 13, 2006, that perfect story took a sudden and heartbreaking turn when, on a typical flight to New York, a pulmonary embolism would take Richards life; catapulting Kris into heartbreak and uncertainty.
It was the end of life as Kris knew it, and the beginning of a journey through the depths of grief and mourning that would reveal to Kris her true strength and an immeasurable love that cannot be broken.
This book is a courageously honest memoir. It is the true story of a wife, a mother, a woman forced to come face to face with fear, insecurity, and the painful but ultimately precious teachings Kris Carlson discovered along the way.
This wise little book offers a timeless message of inspiration, empowerment, and courage for anyone that has experienced and endured any kind of loss or hardship.
Eldon Taylor Mind Programming: From Persuasion and Brainwashing, to Self-Help and Practical Metaphysics on Keeping Life Simple with Lorraine Wilson Mon. Oct. 18th at 6 pm PST / 9 pm EST
October 15, 2010 by Lorraine Wilson
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New York Times bestselling author, Eldon Taylor, has researched the power of the mind for the past 30 years. He has earned doctoral degrees in psychology and metaphysics and his work has been featured on numerous radio broadcasts, television shows and film documentaries.
Eldon is the current talk show host of Provocative Enlightenment on Hay House Radio. He is also a Fellow in the American Psychotherapy Association (APA), a Diplomat in The Academy of Certified Chaplains and was awarded the 2005 International Peace Prize by the United Cultural Convention for his “outstanding personal achievements to the good of society as a whole.”
You know that your thoughts create your reality, but what you do not know is the plethora of research that has been carried out simply to discover ways to control your every thought and desire. What you will learn in will both shock and horrify you. Tweaking your psyche has become big business. Never again will you be able to ignore the truth – your very thoughts are not your own! But what can you do about it?
In Mind Programming, Eldon Taylor not only exposes the massive efforts to program your thinking, he also provides you with all the tools to fight back. Learn how to hypnotize yourself and program your own subconscious. Discover the various self-help tools and gadgets available, from light/sound machines to cortico-electro stimulation. Try out the 50-day plan that will turn your life around. Access your higher self through automatic writing, mind mapping and dowsing. Uncover the truly practical approach to metaphysics that will give you the connection you have been looking for.
Eldon provides the insight, information, and easy-to-use methods that will empower you to realize the life of your dreams!
