Have you checked out the website of Esther and Jerry Hicks recently at www.abraham-hicks.com ? Jerry and Esther Hicks wrote the LAW OF ATTRACTION, ASK AND IT IS GIVEN, THE ASTONISHING POWER OF EMOTIONS, and that’s not all. They have a busy and delightful website packed with information. If you’ve seen the movie, THE SECRET, you might be interested in listening to a video about its beginnings. You can do this by clicking on: More From: AbrahamHicks Abraham Reveals The Secret Behind “The Secret” – Esther Hicks.
oprah and eckhart and a 10-week online web event
Eckhart Tolle’s book A NEW EARTH: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose was announced as new pick for Oprah’s Book Club, and together Oprah and Eckhart will have online Web classes in order to study A NEW EARTH, “. . . but not as an academic subject or in order to acquire new theories or beliefs.” www.eckharttolle.com
Oprah’s worldwide classroom begins on Monday, 3 March, at 9/8c. It’s a free Web event. You can reserve a seat and find out what you need for the first class at www.oprah.com
britney in the limelight
When I click on my laptop, news about Britney manages to surface, and from magazine racks in stores, pictures of Britney manage to surface. So many adult people writing, judging, and photographing her. Time to give it a rest? Let her find herself, so to speak. Are we really a society that takes so much pleasure in watching someone beat themselves up? If we’re not going to assist, then, at the very least, we could refrain from putting her in the limelight where she doesn’t belong at the moment. Perhaps the way to assist is to allow her to live her life in private for now. Give her time to sort things out for herself. And that’ll give us all a chance to do the same for ourselves – cause when we’re so busy with someone else’s life, we’re not really paying attention to our own. And why are we so involved in scrutinizing someone else’s life? Who’s responsible for keeping all this going?
As supposedly evolving human beings we could be asking ourselves questions that bring us to other places, different ways of thinking, and far better ways of living. We humans could be, can we say, should be, concentrating on becoming all that we can be. Knocking people down whether it be with pen and paper, camera, or fist doesn’t feel right.
On another note is Louise Hay’s movie, YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE. We can “Watch a Preview of Louise’s New Movie at www.youcanhealyourlifemovie.com ”
Let’s do it. Yeah!
highly entertaining
The world is indeed a stage. The presidential candidates in the US are presently preening themselves in full force – sprucing up their image, while attempting to determine what “the people” want to hear. How many coaches are involved in bringing them up to snuff with their rapport with the cameras, with the way they answer tv journalists, coaching them on displaying the right emotion at the right time, the proper stance, the right intonation, selecting topics they want to make their own, ignoring others as actors do with scripts sent their way, lots of money required, lots of spectators needed. Months and months and months of rehearsals on the campaign trail. With every candidate involved, it almost suggests the orchestrating of a Broadway extravaganza. Interesting, highly entertaining, very imaginative, but, a little strange, too, since it’s not at all about a Broadway show.
happy, happy new year 2008
Are the holidays being good to you? Are you being good to the holidays? New Year 2008 is just about here. How will you bring it in? If that’s what you do, meaning do you see it as separate from all other days, or is a new year a flow from one day to the next for you – and nothing more? Interesting how some of us see welcoming in the new year as an invitation to get rip roaring drunk with a handful of friends, others travel to distant lands to be with strangers and take in life in another culture, some enjoy a Chinese meal with a few friends seen only at new year’s eve of every year, some spend new year’s eve meditating, either alone or with others, at a retreat, or a place of similar quietness, others dance the night away, some walk around a city simply observing and enjoying and return to their home to watch a movie, read a book, listen to music, have a glass of wine, others are paddling along the Amazon. Whatever you decide to do, may you do it wisely, and have fun doing it. May you enter the new year in a powerful way, and may love, harmony, happiness, health, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, abundance, fulfillment, success be yours. May you be outrageous some times, bold at other times, courageous always. May you be inspired and inspire, may beauty envelope you, and creativity have a hold on you. May you have many wonderful things to write about in your gratitude journal.
Happy, happy New Year 2008 to all of us!
johnny cash
I have a fascination with Johnny Cash’s voice and his songs. Playing one of his CDs is pure relaxation. Strange because a lot of his songs are rather depressing – in an unbeat sort of way. Is it his gravelly voice? Is it the way he strung simple words together felt by the listener’s heart? His energy going out to the people? Do you feel the complications of his life in his songs and his singing? From the first time I heard his voice, his songs, I liked them. Wherever he is perhaps he knows that people are enjoying his music and perhaps he’s smiling.
And now I’m out the door for this ‘n that, grateful for the day, even though the sun can’t be seen, and I’m humming Johnny’s music. What are you humming at the moment?
www.johnnycash.com
a 29/11 on board
My daughter-in-law, Alicia, is a bundle of energy. If you get to play a board game with her, and want to win, you must play as though your life depends on it. Otherwise, you have no chance of winning. Even then, you might have to go defeated. She’s FOCUSED! That said, we (Alicia, Michael, Sebastian and I – Emi had the flu and was immersed in her studies at Columbia, Sumi, Toshi and Sophie were/are in Japan, Yang and Han were understandably tired from working long hours at their business, and Alex was visiting family in Virginia) had an absolutely marvelous holiday week together in Raleigh, even though, alas, we never won a game, not once, nada. Right, Michael?
Alicia said she’s on board for posting on this blog. This will be a real treat as she’s upfront in how she thinks, talks, acts and writes, and will bring everything she knows about a subject, the good and not so good of it, to her postings. We’re a little bit nervous about this, ha ha, just kidding, Alicia. We trust.
Just like Emi, Alicia is a 29/11, which means, among other things, she needs to release lots of creative energy and not keep it within. Exercise is the perfect way of doing this. After reading Dan Millman’s book, The Life You Were Born to Live, danmillman.com she hasn’t stopped exercising. It works, she says.
Michael was a die-hard New Yorker when he went to Raleigh to visit a high school friend. Destiny plays a part in one’s life at times, other words can be used in place of destiny, but, for now, lets stick with destiny, and he met Alicia on the first evening of his visit. Ten years later, New York still holds a place in Michael’s heart, but Raleigh is where he hangs his Yankee cap (if you can wrestle it away from him). And so, a big Korean family from Virginia became part of our family and we became part of theirs when Alicia and Michael married.
Alicia’s mind keeps going, and so her posts will have a whole slew of topics she’ll want to discuss. It’ll be a lot fun and very interesting. Indeed!
Chocoholics Unite!
This is the time of year the call of chocolate is too strong to resist! Why o why do I not have the power to resist chocolate and sweets in general. I think it could be hormonal… seems to be getting worse over the years.
Dark, milk,white, cakes, cookies, ice cream — I will take it all.. and I love it all. I need some type of repellent to these things — evil, evil, sweets… oh the downfall of all my working out and trying to stay in shape are my addiction to sweets. Give me Godiva, lindt, Haagen-Daaz, or Herseys.
I have just been told go to the 8th floor of the saks fifth avenue www.saks.com in NYC (the original) and get the expensive chocolate… make sure to go alone so not to have to share the expensive chocolate..
So I am here to say, my name is Alicia and I am a chocoholic. I need help!
celtic tiger starring michael flatley
Have you seen CELTIC TIGER starring Michael Flatley “shot on location in Budapest”? Do you want to be energized and wonderfully entertained? Then you must get the DVD. Seriously! Michael Flatley has brought this art form to a very high level. And all of the dancers are fantastic. I don’t know if you can find anyone more enthusiastic about what he does – maybe as enthusiastic, but not more. And it’s contagious. Go and get the DVD. If you aren’t completely engrossed by it – well, I don’t know what to say. Wait, there’s more. Don’t forget to watch the film TIGER FEET accompanying the DVD. That, too, is really entertaining. www.michaelflatley.com
square dancing
When was the last time you went square dancing? That’s all right; I’ve been only once. That one time though was terrific; fun even though I had no clue as to what any of the steps were. In fact, before being pushed into the circle, I didn’t know there were actual steps to learn in square dancing-just thought it was round and round, smiling a lot in the process-just like in the movies. What was I thinking? Apparently, I wasn’t. Now I know it’s a very happy way to spend an evening. And a marvelous work out is included. I’m beginning to think I might have spent time in the mountains in some of my last lives. Perhaps with the McCoys or Hatfields? I like the harmonica and fiddle, prefer jeans to a formal dress, find country music always enjoyable, and there are other reasons. Even bought a harmonic on several occasions and ended up giving it to a child. One more purchase of a harmonica and it’s mine to keep. Otherwise, I’ll never learn. Right?
Next time you hear there’s square dancing in your area, mosey on over and have yourself a terrific time.