Monthly Archives: June 2010

Live Your Bliss: Practices that Produce Happiness and Prosperity
By Terry Cole-Whittaker
Published 2009 by New World Library

I first learned about Live Your Bliss, by Terry Cole-Whitaker, while listening to the Theater of the Mind Podcast by Kelley Howell. After listening to Kelley’s engaging interview with Ms. Cole-Whitaker, I went out and bought the book and devoured it eagerly.

Live Your Bliss: Practices that Produce Happiness and Prosperity, is both a spiritual/inspirational book and a practical guide to living the life you intend in a blissful way. Cole-Whitaker writes about “living in the abundant flow of divine bliss and opulence,” that is out birthright, but our own self-impose limiting beliefs keep us from tapping into that flow of prosperity.

Chapter four, “Prosper and Live Blissfully by Doing What You Love,” was one that I really enjoyed because it really put the concept of prosperity and abundance in perspective for me. Cole-Whitaker writes about the fact that we are already prosperity. It is not something that we need to go out and work hard to acquire. She also reminds her readers that, “. . . working for money makes money your boss, but working for love makes love your boss.”

Each of the eight chapters ends with ‘Happiness and Prosperity Practices’ and ‘Prosperity Mantras,’ that help the reader to take the concepts and ideas from the book and put them into action in your daily life.

Chapter five focuses on relationships. The author reminds the reader that we are all love, and that we do not get love from outside of ourselves or from other people. She encourages her readers to offer the gift of unconditional love, which is the greatest gift we can give to another human being. She shares seven actions that lead to becoming a master at the art of relationships.

She ends the book with a chapter called, ‘Entrance into the Realm of Divine Pleasures’ which encourages the reader to take responsibility for the world they have created, and to discipline their minds so that they can begin to co-create a world on purpose. She writes about the new world that is evolving and the various ways to develop your spiritual consciousness.

Terry Cole-Whittaker is also well known for her previous books, What You Think of Me is None of My Business, Dare to Be Great, How to Have More in a Have-Not World, and others. She is also a minister, counselor and teacher.

I enjoyed reading Live Your Bliss, because the material is presented in such a way that encourages the reader to actually put what they learn into practice in their everyday lives. You would like this book if you are looking to strengthen your spiritual foundations and you are really focusing on finding a way to prosper from the things that you are passionate about.

Here’s a link to a .PDF that contains an excerpt of the Live Your Bliss
book.

On Saturday I received my atunement for Reiki I. I attended a class of just four people in the home of my Reiki Master, Claudio. I have wanted to learn Reiki ever since I learned about it a few years ago, but I also heard that it was very expensive to take the training. Claudio and I were at a business networking lunch when Reiki came up in the conversation and he mentioned that he was a Reiki master and that he might be teaching a class soon. I told him to let me know when his next class would be scheduled, and he did.

There were three others in my class, but Claudio did the atunements in private in his healing room. When it was my turn I had an amazing experience, which is impossible to really capture in words. All that I can say is that I felt the energy come through and I have been literally transformed by it. At first I felt a buzz–like the kind you feel when you’ve had a bit too much caffeine, but no racing heartbeat. I could not sit down and I felt like my body could not contain this expansive energy.

After each of us received our atunements we all shared about our experiences, and then we each received a group healing session. Each participant received healing from the other three participants and Claudio. As I laid hands on my fellow students I could feel the energy moving through and I could feel it swirling around in the room among us.

When it was my turn to receive the healing, Claudio adjusted and refined the flow of energy I was receiving and I felt this tremendous feeling of peaceful calm. That super-high frequency of energy was dissipated and I felt grounded yet light as a feather. One of my classmates said that while she had her hands on me she kept seeing the vision of roses floating all around me, which was right on because roses are my favorite flower, and I have a bouquet of pink roses on my table right now.

I could not wait to get home and tell my girls about my powerful experience. I did my first hands-on healing session with my 12-year-old. It felt as though I had become a channel of pure, unconditional love. I could feel the energy flowing through me into her body. I did not prompt her or tell her what might happen, and when I was finished I asked her what she felt and she said, “it felt a little bit warm and a little bit tingly.”

Receiving my Reiki I atunement was an awesome experience and a precious gift from the Universe. I look forward to learning more about Reiki and practicing it on myself and on my girls so that I will get better at it as time goes on. I plan to do Reiki II and III as well because I would love to be able to share this awesome gift with others.