What a beautiful and glorious day it is… thank you for blessing me with today.

And thank you, dear reader, for sharing this time with me to open your heart and mind and receive. For as you know, time is precious and for that I am grateful you chose to share your time here, now. I, my friend, appreciate you.

Now, you may have heard of Jerry & Esther Hicks and their channeling of the non physical entity – Abraham. If you have not yet heard of or are not yet familiar with their work, I highly suggest you check out Abraham-Hicks as they are a wealth of wisdom.

So, lately, I’ve studied their work relentlessly, which helps to put everything you have ever studied about the Law of Attraction and self development for that matter, into action. You, like me, may have studied everything under the sun with self growth, tried personal development plans, and worked on your inner game until the cows came home. You may even get this stuff intuitively but not quite figured out how to use it consistently to create results in your life.

Sound anything like your experience?

It has definitely been my experience to have a huge bookcase filled with personal development books all promising to contain “the secret” to success.

And, why aren’t you a multimillionaire, with a beautiful family, driving that car you’ve always wanted, taking those vacations whenever, wherever you want?

To start with, if you have yet to read this book, check out Sara, Book 1, which will turn you on to the accelerating process of appreciation.

Anyways, this post is not one all about the Abraham Hicks series, though they are an integral part of discovering the powerful processes they teach to grow from the inside out.

One of the biggest lessons and blessings you can give yourself is to start from where you are on your path.

Everything any self development author has to give you works. The reason it may not work for you, work as fast as you’d like, etc. is because you may be trying to use the technology from a place other than where you’re starting out.

Make sense?

Positive expectancy works though you have to have a reason to positively expect. If it’s money you want and you have any feelings of desperation anywhere in your many layers, the experience you will most likely receive is more situations to be desperate about.

It’s your story, after all, and you can create whatever you want.

Yes, even things like cancer, amongst other things people commonly find “bad” or “wrong” are experiences that person created to learn a lesson of one feeling or another.

Just the other day a woman with a big heart at Holistic Happenings graciously shared with me how she used to have fibromyalgia and how she had to learn how to allow it in order to grow. In her initial resisting, the fibromyalgia initially got worse – more intense, to the point she had to use a cane to walk around. It was not until she learned to allow it and became OK with the thought of living with it the rest of her life that she healed the fibromyalgia.

She had what you might call an explosive blessing because when I saw her the other day, she now is a practicing hypnotist and she walks around freely without a cane.

Funny that I mention this to you in this post because the same day I spoke with the lady at Holistic Happenings, my brother yelled at me for what he felt were my shortcomings. Normally, I’d yell back and do what I could to bring light to all of his shortcomings in an effort to show him how it didn’t make sense to cast stones when he himself had many things to cast stones at…

Hah, how hilarious was that and no wonder it used to turn out the way it did.

The other day, I smiled and said thank you to my brother. One of the things he called me was “Mr Philosophy” to which I offered the notion he might be able to use much of what I have studied.

After he was finished going on about his perspective on my shortcomings, I thanked him for reminding me what I had to appreciate in my life experience.

That, dear reader, is one giant leap for mankind for as each one of you decides to be the change you want to see, you reclaim your energy as you grow into who you are becoming.

The most interesting part about that experience was how I had written out a list of things I appreciate about my family and offered it to them to read, which they did, and how the rest of it played out about to the “T” of an experience I read about in the Sara Books.

What I mean by that is after appreciating something, I was challenged to see how I would create the situation.

… so, appreciate and be open to all the wonderful experiences you create in your life.

Share in the comments below your experiences with using these principles in your life.

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Here is part 2 of your Ultimate Success Camp story on how you, too, can achieve personal transformation.

Nearing the end of day 1 after Les Brown spoke about living your brilliance, Bill Walsh tells us that it’s about time for a stage hypnosis show.

Now, having heard about stage hypnosis shows, but never having experienced one in person before, you bet it was intriguing. Supposedly after a few suggestions, people had clucked like chickens and done other things they would not normally do when their everyday defenses are up.

So, imagine sitting in a hotel conference room as the hypnotist Will “Millionaire Maker” Duquette is introduced. Will immediately informs you and the rest of the attendees that he almost did not do the show because he was a bit freaked out but had used self hypnosis to instantly overcome what otherwise would have been a debilitating fear for many people.

Pretty amazing, right? (and by the way, that’s the first suggestion that hypnosis works – you think “wow, if hypnosis can work like THAT for him, maybe it can work for me, too”)

After a bit of an introduction, Will asks for 10 people to come up and sit in the 10 chairs, and 10 people to stand behind those 10 people because he had a limited amount of time so he couldn’t work in depth with the people who were more resistant to hypnosis.

If anyone has ever tried to hypnotize you and failed, chances are you had an expectation somewhere in your consciousness that hypnosis did not work for you.

A mad rush to the chairs ensued and I secured a spot standing behind one of the chairs.

Now, I want you to imagine that you are deeply relaxed, like you are walking down a staircase and each step down you take, takes you deeper into relaxation. As you look at the staircase, it comes into your awareness that 10 steps remain and sub-vocally you will count from 10 down to 1 as you continue to move deeper into relaxation as you walk down the stairs. 10, smiling now because you are deeply relaxed as you take the next step down, 9, becoming even more relaxed as you get into a rhythm of going deeper, 8, going even deeper now and smiling as you become aware of how deeply you are relaxed as you count, 7, lightly floating down in your rhythmic state of deep relaxation as you now come to 6, going even deeper now as you continue your steps into 5, feeling comfortable and completely safe as you continue to move into an even deeper state of relaxation by stepping into 4, floating even deeper now in your rhythmic state of deep relaxation in 3, going deeper into comfortable relaxation, 2, comfortably relaxing in your safe state of rhythm, now, 1 so deeply comfortable in your rhythmic state of relaxation.

Wow, if you find yourself in trance right now, let me know in the comments down below about your shared experience.

So, after going through a similar induction (the one above was created by me completely spur of the moment as I was writing this post) I was chosen as one of the 10 to be hypnotized live on stage.

A few of the things we did while under hypnotic suggestion:

- 1 person thought she was a safety belt and jumped in the lap of the person sitting next to her

- We all acted like we were in grade school again and every time the “teacher” (Will) turned his back, we made faces

- Every time we saw napkins, we thought they were hundred dollar bills and hid them in places people wouldn’t look

- I thought my name was Oscar Meyer Weiner even when taking out my ID, seeing my picture, and thinking someone had stolen my identity because it wasn’t the same name on the id

Stage-Hypnosis-Show

Now, if we did all these things under hypnotic suggestion (by the way – if you were asked to do something under hypnosis that was against your ethics/morals/religion/etc. – you wouldn’t do it while under hypnosis) imagine what you could do simply by replacing all negative/unsupportive beliefs with empowering beliefs.

What would you do when you let go of limiting beliefs and conditioning?

Stay tuned because soon I will attend Will Duquette’s The Shift 3 day Bootcamp

***Update: To further confirm that hypnosis is in fact powerful – when I went home that night, I actually ate a hot dog at like midnight, and it’s been a long time since i’ve done that.***

You are cordially invited to comment down below on any experiences you have had with hypnosis.

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