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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.