Elisabeth Fayt International speaker, Law of Attraction Coach and Reiki Master   Click the arrow to listen to this interview or read it below...

 
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Connie: I’m excited to be talking with Elisabeth Fayt, who is an international speaker, Law of Attraction Coach and Reiki Master.

And here’s the part I really like, she’s from Alberta. She’s a successful businesswoman in Calgary, the owner and founder of RnR Wellness, a Calgary riverfront spa that has 20 satellite locations in Calgary and Toronto’s finest hotels. She’s also the author of a new book called Paving It Forward (Spirit Seekers Publishing, 2008) and a featured expert in the recently released movie, The Opus (Magnificient Motion Picture Works, 2008).

Elisabeth, you have a very interesting background, a wonderful blend of eastern metaphysical knowledge and western corporate philosophies. Let’s start by talking about the corporate part of your background. For many years you were the executive assistant to Ron Joyce, one of Canada’s most prominent entrepreneur-billionaires - the co-founder of Tim Hortons. How did this job prepare you for your own business and personal success?

Elisabeth: Well, Connie, I think everything in life prepares us. Right from the moment we’re born, we are prepared for that big dream that we want to accomplish in our lives. And without a doubt, my ten years with Ron Joyce, the founder of Tim Hortons, certainly played a huge role in what I’m doing today. Now before I met Mr. Joyce at age 30, I’d been an entrepreneur already, so that kind of life was not new to me but Mr. Joyce’s life was on a far bigger scale than I had ever imagined.

He taught me how to think big. He took a company that had three Tim Horton stores and he built it to over 3,000 stores. I mean, that’s big; those are big numbers. And I believe that when I got into my spa, my wellness company, RnR Wellness, I went into it with that sort of mentality - that I’m not just going to open a spa; I want to open a chain of spas. And that’s a mentality. That’s a mindset.

I’ll just tell you about a typical day with Mr. Joyce. I was on, I would say, four to five flights a week. We would be traveling all over the world. He had his own private fleet of planes. So he would say: “We’re going to France today. Did you pack a bag?” And I always had a bag. As an executive assistant to a billionaire, you always have a bag. So we would leave his office, go up the ramp and off we would go.

And a typical day would be having dinner with the President of the United States and the next day maybe we’d be flying with a helicopter into his children’s camp where he could eat ice cream with his face. We would all put our faces down into the ice cream and the kids would rip and roar and howl and we’d be making a difference with the kids, and then dining with rock stars the next night. So it opened my eyes to a life that I would have never seen - almost preparing me to swim with the sharks. I mean, after my ten years with Mr. Joyce, I felt like I could do anything.

And I watched all of the people that he surrounded himself with, who were very successful. So I learned the traits of successful people. I’ll talk about two of them - one of them is they’re not afraid of failure. Mr. Joyce lost everything three times down to nothing. You see, they’re not afraid of failure because they know that in a heartbeat, they can build it back again, because it’s a mindset. It’s what’s in your mind.

And we are programmed for success. And so all we need to do is turn on that switch and focus on that program. And that’s what Mr. Joyce does with his foundation, the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation. He brings kids in, he flies them. If you’re from Calgary he flies you to Nova Scotia. If you’re from Kentucky, he flies you to Toronto. He gets kids that have never even thought they could get on a plane and shows them another part of life. He opens their eyes and that’s what I believe he did for me. He opened my eyes to a way of being. He taught me that I could do anything and matter.

And then the second thing that I noticed from the successful people that he surrounded himself with, is that they give back. People will look and they’ll say: “Oh, this person’s successful - they’re lucky. That person’s lucky.” No, it has nothing to do with luck! They made it happen. I watched every single person. Mr. Joyce made it happen and anyone he surrounded himself with made it happen and they gave back. They gave to the world…

So I really, really did notice that: 1) they’re not afraid of failure because they know they are programmed for success and 2) they give back. And they work hard, they really do. Everybody, whatever you have in your life, you have earned it in some way, shape or form.

Connie: For many years you studied healing arts and the Law of Attraction, as taught by Masters in India. Who was your greatest teacher and can you tell us how his teachings changed your life?

Elisabeth: Well, yes, I did study with the Masters of India for 14 years. And I’m dating myself here, but I would say it was a turning point at age 30 when I found the teaching of Paramahansa Yogananda. I know it’s a mouthful, but I’m telling you this saint, this Indian saint changed my life. And you really don’t know you’re in the dark until someone turns on the light. And that’s the best way I can describe it. I didn’t realize how unhappy I was. I didn’t realize that I really had no meaning in my life until I met with the teachings of this great master.

He’s written, I would say, over 50 books and he has a worldwide organization. He teaches meditation, teaches metaphysical truth and when I read his main book, Autobiography of a Yogi, it was truth. And I don’t believe that we really know what truth is until we hear it. We could hear all sorts of things that are false but we don’t know it until we actually hear truth and say, this is right. This is the meaning of life. And I believe that’s what he taught me. He taught me the meaning of life.

The Masters of India also teach the Law of Attraction, they just don’t call it that. They teach: what you’re thinking, you are creating. And so even though in my 20’s I was an entrepreneur, on the outside successful, everything going for me, I had challenges which I’m sure we’ll touch on today, but really my life had no meaning.

And it took sort of just a deep tragedy in my own life to get me to this point, where I found this great teacher and everything came alive. I realized, why are we here? What is the meaning of this existence and how can I live by truth? Really truly, not by trying to keep up with the Jones, not by trying to attain more and more material things, which is ironic enough because that was exactly the time when I started working for Mr. Joyce, really living the life of the rich and famous. But the beauty of it, Connie, was that I lived that life, but at the same time, was studying this metaphysical truth behind it all, so I’ve never ever in all my years with Ron Joyce ever attached to anything material. To me, I would see the beauty and truth behind those material things.

Connie: Was it during this time then that you learned to become of Reiki Master?

Elisabeth: Yes, and in my travels with Mr. Joyce, I mean, it was a grueling schedule. It was seven days a week. Often there were months at a time where I really wouldn’t get that much of a break. I loved it, don’t get me wrong. I absolutely was passionate about my job, I adored it. And we create that, and we can talk about that later, how we create if we want to be passionate about our job, or if you want a job you’re passionate about, you have to be passionate now. It’s a choice.

But all along the way … as I had the opportunity to be all around the world, I studied with teachers everywhere I would be. I might have a half an hour here or a half day there or a day where he would be traveling on his boat so I got the day to myself and I would study.

And I latched onto a lady by the name of Elizabeth Gilberg and she was a Reiki Master, a psychic healer and I started studying with her. She was a phenomenal teacher and her niche was the Law of Attraction. She would teach the Law of Attraction, as well as healing energy. Now this was right up my alley, because here I was studying with the Masters of India on the Law of Attraction, even though they didn’t call it that, then … my teacher was teaching me the Law of Attraction.

And when I was learning it, Connie, I didn’t say: “Oh great, I’m changing my life.” I said: “I’m going to change the lives of thousands of people,” because I knew that I could teach it to the corporate world, because I had this dual life. I had the metaphysical life and not everybody can latch onto that. You have to be of that mind. And I understood the corporate mind. So I was learning all these metaphysical healings and teachings, but I knew the workings of a corporate mind. And I said, okay, I can take my knowledge of healing, knowledge of energy, the energy of thought, and I can teach the corporate world how to learn that side of it without having to understand the whole gamut of it.

Because it’s a commitment. If you say okay I want to learn the metaphysics of life, you can’t go half way. I went in with both feet and I studied. I would go down to California to the ashrams and I would live for a month at a time. This was before I started traveling with Mr. Joyce. In my time off I would go there and I would just absorb myself and work with the people, the monks and nuns who lived in the ashrams… Not everybody can do that so I knew that with this beautiful blend of East and West, I could bring the East to the West.

Connie: And you have. Let’s talk about your new book called Paving It Forward. It’s the title of your book, but it’s also a technique you describe over and over. Can you tell us more about that?

Elisabeth: Yes, absolutely. Paving It Forward is kind of a cliché, a play on words of paying it forward, which everybody knows and I used that because I thought it was relevant. I teach a technique call ‘pre-paving’. So when I say paving it forward, I say we are paving the way for what we want. You see, Connie, I believe that people spend more time choosing what they’re going to wear in the morning than they do choosing how they’re going to connect with people, how they’re going to feel, what they’re going to accomplish.

Pre-paving is choosing all of those things. It’s a choice. It lines up the energy. When you wake up in the morning and say: “Today’s going to be a great day,” you are lining up the energy for a great day. Every thought we think takes us either in the direction of our goal, or takes us away from our goal...

A hypnotist puts the conscious mind to sleep. They can give a command to the subconscious mind and immediately you are running around the room as though you’re a red fire engine or you’re in love with someone you’ve never met before. And really, you have no control because the hypnotist has given a command to your subconscious mind.

Now look at our own daily lives, the things we say! We are hypnotizing ourselves every moment of the day with thoughts we think and the words we choose. So I teach people to pre-pave what you want. So when you wake up in the morning, often, we are pre-paving already. Everyone is pre-paving; I’m teaching people to mindfully and consciously pre-pave what they want. So people will wake up in the morning and they say: “Oh, I don’t feel so great today.” Well, that’s a pre-pave that lines up the energy so you’re not going to feel great. If you say I have a headache, it lines up the energy to keep the pain coming.

It really, really is powerful. We are powerful creators. Whatever we say, the universe is just waiting for our next command. And the subconscious mind cannot decipher between reality and a wish. So if I say something and it really isn’t my current reality, but I say it because it’s what I want, the universe will say: “Okay, okay, bring it on boys because this is what she wants.” And it will create it and it will make it come true.

And I’ve used it in my life … over and over again. When I first got the job offer from Mr. Joyce… I was living with my sister at the time and I said to her: “I have this amazing offer. Mr. Joyce has asked me (I’d been working for him for five years at the time) to go and travel with him around the world and help him with the new direction in his life.” And my sister said to me: “Elisabeth, you pre-paved this 20 years ago when you were a teenager, don’t you remember? And I did. I recalled vividly saying when I was 17 years old: “I will be private secretary to a man who is a billionaire who has his own plane.” I remember visualizing myself with a steno pad walking up to the plane, taking notes as he was speaking, feverishly writing, and then we were boarding the plane together. And with one single pre-pave, almost 20 years later, my pre-pave came true.

Our words, Connie, are so powerful. What we say - it comes true. And that’s why the universe can’t take a joke, let me tell you this. If you say: “Oh, I do everything around here” and you’re just joking with your partner, the universe will line up the energy and orchestrate everything so that you are doing everything around here! Exactly.

Connie: Yes, I agree.

Elisabeth: Really, we are powerful creators and we need to be aware that our words and our thoughts are every moment of the day, creating our next experience.

Connie: Now how do you think that your technique of pre-paving differs from using affirmations? How is it different or is it different?

Elisabeth: Well, it’s similar, but it is different in that a pre-pave really doesn’t need repetition. An affirmation is a positive statement that you say over and over and over again and what it does, is it changes your consciousness. An affirmation, when you say over: “I am wealthy, I’m wealthy, I’m wealthy,” or “I am successful, I’m successful,” when you roll that around in your consciousness, it changes your vibration. Now when I say vibration, I mean … the energy of thought. Every thought you think enters the energy field that surrounds your body. That’s your vibrations.

So let’s take a look at a typical day. By 8:00 a.m., you’ve had so many thoughts: positive, negative, positive, negative, that you’ve got a vibration that’s just humming at a certain frequency. That frequency is attracting to you everything you have in your life. So if we’re not aware of the first thought we’ve had in the morning and if we’re not aware of what we were thinking about in the shower or eating breakfast, we become a magnet that creates by default.

Now, affirmations, they help shift your consciousness so that if I’m going to spend 20 minutes or half an hour rolling that thought through my mind, it’ll shift my consciousness and it will help me to change my vibration - raise my vibration. Now the thing is that you really have to believe. When you’re doing an affirmation, you really have to believe it or you’re believing the opposite thing or you’re affirming the opposite thing.

I’ll give you an example. A man was going to a counselor. He was having difficulty with his financial situation. He just couldn’t keep money. Everything just seemed to wash through his hands anytime he would get any money and so he went for counseling. And he learned some techniques; the counselor taught him affirmations. And a couple of weeks, he came back for another session and he was very distraught. The counselor obviously could see what was happening. He said: “What’s going on? What’s happened?” And he said: “Well, counselor. I did exactly what you said. I affirmed morning noon and night: “I am wealthy, I am wealthy, I am wealthy.” He said: “I knew it wasn’t going to work.”

So you see, if we don’t believe it, then really what happens is when we are affirming: “I am wealthy,” in the background our subconscious mind is saying: “No we’re not,” and we’re affirming the opposite. So with a pre-pave, I don’t say to do it over and over and over again, because sometimes when we say it over and over and over again, we’re almost putting resistance around it - like is this really going to happen? Like we’re almost forcing it! But a pre-pave is something that you tell universe what you want, you do it with gratitude and conviction and then you surrender. You let it go and you say thank you - I know it’s already coming.

Connie: That’s a great way to describe it, because it’s true.

Elisabeth: Yes. You’re not holding onto the result, you’re really not. And nothing against affirmations; I teach them too. I think if you really truly want, if you really believe in something and you want to shift your consciousness, saying a pre-pave over and over again isn’t going to hurt you. But I can say: “I want to pre-pave safety.” Then I want to move onto the next thing I want to pre-pave. “I want to pre-pave success.” Now I want to move on to the next thing because I don’t want just one thing all day. I want to connect deeply with people, so I’m going to pre-pave that. You know, a great pre-pave that I love is to wake up in the morning, and this works Connie … every morning I say: Something wonderful is going to happen today.” I pre-pave it once and I let the universe know that I believe it. I believe it and I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen.

I did that. I was in Las Vegas this weekend for The Opus premiere and it was a long trip… it was, I mean to go that distance just for overnight, but I really wanted to. I’m promoting this film and I feel proud to be in the film. And I want to support it and I knew I was going to meet some wonderful people. I had the opportunity of meeting Jack Canfield and spending some time with him and I met some wonderful, wonderful authors and speakers and people that just lit up my weekend. And every day I said: “Something wonderful is going to happen today. I’m going to be so glad that I came.” And I was blown away, Connie. …the universe really necessarily isn’t creating new things, but it’s opening your eyes to what you might have missed, you see.

And so when I pre-pave with conviction I know the power of my words - that it will come true and I think that I really, really want to help people, to show them: watch your words, be mindful of your words and focus on what you want, because you can make anything happen.

Connie: So, was that your goal, then in writing, Paving It Forward?

Elisabeth: Yes.

Connie: What do you hope people will get from it?

Elisabeth: Oh, gosh, I want them to know that they are powerful creators. And that’s why I teach my workshops. I’m just so passionate about this because I can see what it does. After two hours with a group of students, they walk out of my class so empowered. They just say: “Elisabeth, my life has changed. I know that the things that I want, I can have.”

You see, what we focus on, we attract. Where you put your intentions, there is your energy for creating. And this is important because often we want things, but if we don’t put our attention on them, the universe is going to give us what we’re putting our attention on. And so, it’s not rocket science, but it is science. You need to know. In my 20s, I didn’t know why lots of negative things happened to me - I was a good girl, I was working hard and doing all those things, but if you don’t know the laws of the universe, then you will be succumbed to the throws of the waves of the ups and downs.

And when you raise your vibration by pre-paving and focusing on what you want as opposed to putting your attention on what you don’t want, and people do that - what are you going to put your attention on except for the challenges, the things you think you have to overcome? But the only way to overcome those is to turn on the light, is to raise your vibration. And when you raise your vibration, your mind shifts in consciousness and then you do. All the results, all of the things and solutions that you need to solve any problem you have, is with a raised consciousness, not by beating at darkness with a stick. You have to turn on the light.

Connie: Now as you were saying, your life has not always just been so perfect. And in your book I read that you were in a difficult relationship for over ten years before meeting your husband Anton, and then having your first baby at 40. And I want to say, good for you, for that… Can you tell us what you did to make such a big shift in your life. I think a lot of people have relationship problems or issues. I’m sure they’d love to hear what you have to say about that.

Elisabeth: Yes. Well, I’ve got to tell you I usually start off my speeches saying that I’m very sincere and I really want to help everyone. I want to change your life. And I always start off that way, but then I say to them, but I really don’t care about your goals. Everyone kind of looks at me saying: “Oh, don’t you really care, Elisabeth?” And I say: “Yes, I really don’t care about your goals.” You may have a goal to be in a wonderful relationship, and you may have a goal to lose 20 pounds, or you may have a goal to get out of financial difficulty. And you may reach those goals and good for you. But I can guarantee if you haven’t shifted your consciousness, next January 1, you’re going to be writing out those same goals again.

So we have to shift the consciousness and so when we have things that happen in our lives we try to beat them. It’s like beating at darkness with a stick. You’re not going to do anything with it. You just hurt yourself and everyone around you and you’re blinded by it. You have to turn on the light. So when you shift your consciousness, everything becomes clear. And I’ve heard it said that you cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. You have to shift your consciousness. And so, yes, I’m real. I’ve had a real life, In my 20’s I was in a relationship that was not supportive. And I don’t blame anyone but myself. I take full responsibility for it because my consciousness attracted that.

I can give you an example: if you’re in an abusive relationship and you say: “Well, how could I have attracted someone that would be abusive to me? I’m not abusive.” But if you have someone who has the need to be dominated, they will attract someone who is domineering. And that’s the way the Law of Attraction works, you see. So when you remove that need to be domineered, then you won’t attract that type of partner.

So we have to take responsibility that if we want to know what our vibration is, if we want to know what we are vibrating, just look at what you’ve attracted. But again, looking at that, give yourself a little bit of a break. It’s who you were, it’s not who you are. Who you are is what you are thinking right at this moment. You can shift your energy immediately by your thoughts. A great way to do it is just by gratitude.

And so learn that what you think attracts, that what you speak becomes true, and that gratitude and smiling and paving forward what you want is going to create what you want … even when you’re setting your goals. We were working with Jack Canfield this weekend about it and he was getting everyone to write out their goals. And he asked a really neat question. He said: “Look at the goal that you have written down. Did you write down a goal really that you want, or did you write a goal that you thought was within the means of possibility?” Think about it. We look and we have a goal and we try to adjust it so we think it’s in the realm of possibility. When in reality, Connie, anything is possible.

So what do you want? Really what do you want, because the universe is waiting to give it to you. And if you want to stifle your dreams because you think: “Well, am I going to get any better? This man loves me. Do you really think I should take the risk of being alone?” Gosh, what do you want in life? Do you want a good relationship - then make it happen! If you give what you want, because when you give what you want you resonate it, it will be attracted to you. It is universal law.

Connie: Excellent, excellent answer. Okay, you are also one of the featured experts in the film, The Opus, which you’ve been talking a little bit about. But for people who haven’t seen The Opus yet, it teaches formulas and patterns that top achievers use to create greater abundance in wealth, health, relationships, and self-achievement. And in the film, Elisabeth, you talk about the power of pre-paving. And I want to know, did you pre-pave your involvement in The Opus?

Elisabeth: Oh, I’m so glad you asked me that, Connie, because I tell this story wherever I can because it really is powerful. I’ve been using pre-paving for probably ten years now. And I do make it the focus of my teaching because I know that this one technique will take you to your dreams. It really, truly will. I’ve been teaching the Law of Attraction for five years, but a year and a half ago when The Secret (TS Productions LLC, 2006) came out or when it got on my radar anyway, friends of mine (students who had taken my classes) invited my husband and I to watch a movie. And we had no idea what was in store for us.

And there we were with a group of friends and all of the sudden The Secret came on. And my eyes lit up. I looked around the room, a room full of my students and I said: “This is my class. This is what I teach. This is what I’m passionate about.” And they were all smiling saying: “Yes, we know, Elisabeth. This is why we’ve invited you.” And I was so excited about The Secret because when I started teaching the Law of Attraction, it wasn’t always an easy sell. People didn’t know what it was. What is this Law of Attraction stuff? Is it how to be sexy, how to be attractive, how to attract the perfect mate? And that’s not what it is. The Law of Attraction is how to create a life of abundance and love and health and everything. It’s everything! It’s the ticket to happiness.

And so to me The Secret was an eye opener for the world and it put the Law of Attraction on everybody’s radar which meant for me, it opened up doors. But instead I thought to myself: “Gee, I should have been in that film!” What I did was I looked at those teachers - I looked at the Jack Canfield’s, the Marcie ... and the John Demartini’s and I looked and I said: “I am that caliber. I am that caliber of teacher. I will be in the next film.” I pre-paved it.

Connie: Good for you!

Elisabeth: “I will be in the next film because I am that.” I believed in myself. I knew that what those teachers had to say, I had just as much to say in just as powerful a way. I truly believed it. I told everybody I knew: “I’m going to be in the next movie.” And they said: “Oh, when is it going to be?” I said: “I’m not sure but it will come out soon.” And I truly believed it. And in the movie I say that you can’t sit on the couch and eat potato chips and expect your life’s going to happen magically. You have to act. And so I did. I got off the couch and I did act. I made a few phone calls.

But you know, when you have shift of consciousness, when you shift your consciousness and pre-pave what you want, really the action is minimal. Yes, you have to act, but the way the universe works is, when you raise one hand, the Divine lowers two to pick you up. It’s like putting in an investment plan. The universe will match your investment. So it’s like buying a lottery ticket to win. You have to buy a ticket. So really, your form of action is: 1) to pre-pave it, and then 2) just do one thing.

Jack Canfield says do five things a day, every single day, to take you towards your goal. And the more you do, the better. And I even think, I go further and I say when you shift your consciousness, the more you mentally prepare to receive what you are looking for, the less you have to physically do. And that’s truth.

And so what happened was a series of events. Really not much happened for about eight to nine months, but I kept telling friends: “I’m going to be in the next movie.” I didn’t know when it was. And it was about eight months later after a series of events, this woman came into my life named Sherry. She’s still in my life and brings me so much value and I’m so grateful for her. And she and I connected through friends trying to get us to connect - serendipity, synchronicity stuff. We were chatting and she was promoting Dr. John Demartini to come and I was doing a private viewing of The Secret at the time. And because I was so passionate about it I rented the Globe Theater and invited 400 of my closest friends, and they wrote about it in the paper. See I do things in a big way, Connie, go big or go home.

So Sherry and I met ... and I said: “You know what Sherry? I’m going to be in the next film and you’re going to help me do it.” And she said: “Okay.” And later on she told me: “Elisabeth, I had no idea how I was going to do it.” But she was the one who made the connection.

And that’s one thing I really need to say is that often we discount our dreams because we don’t believe we know how it’s going to happen or how could it happen? When we tell the universe we want this, the universe is already starting to create it. If you doubt, you are telling the universe: stop the creation. So I never think about how something is going to happen, I know that if I want something and I tell the Universe this is what I want, and I say thank you, I know that it is already being created. And all I need to do, to be in a receptive state to receive, is to feel good. That’s what you need. You just need to pre-pave it. You do it with gratitude and then feel good, because it’s on its way.

So anyway, Sherry, shortly after called me and she said, “Guess what? I just spoke to the director and the producer of the movie that is going to be deemed as the unofficial sequel to The Secret.” And I said: “I’m not surprised.” She said: “He’s got one more day of filming in Calgary and he wants to meet you.” And within three days, there I was with this producer, Douglas Vermeeren, sitting in a coffee shop. And he interviewed me and he asked me some questions. I gave him a copy of my CD and he and his wife listened to it and they called me the next day and they said: “You’re in!”

Connie: Good for you!

Elisabeth:;; So three weeks later, there I was filming for my first official movie as a speaker. I mean, I’ve been in films before for Mr. Joyce, but this was my first on my own. And I tell you it has been the most amazing experience. I have met with many of the authors, speakers in the movie, phenomenal people, and I’m working on other projects with them. And I tell you my life is just coming alive. It was so alive before - I didn’t know it could be more alive! And I’m just thrilled to be able to now take my message around the world.

Connie: So how would you say that the The Opus is different than The Secret? You say it’s like a sequel. How would you say it’s different?

Elisabeth: Well, we’re positioning it as the next step. The Secret was a phenomenal success, and it put the Law of Attraction on the radar so to speak, which is great because people … are open to it. Maybe ten years ago we weren’t, so Rhonda Byrne came out with the movie at the exact perfect time.

But some of the people, most of the people actually said: “Oh, I know this stuff. I know this already.” But really, do they practice it and are we practicing it? And do we really know the practical application of it. And I believe if we’re going to look at The Secret and The Opus, I would say in a nutshell that The Secret is theory and The Opus is the practical. So The Secret really brought to our attention, to put the Law of Attraction on the scope. It brought our minds to it and said: You visualize, yes, you will materialize.” If you can hold it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand. But The Opus teaches you how to take action, how to really get a clear picture and how to take action.

And the storyline of The Opus is really beautiful - it’s touching. The Secret had different little storylines. The Opus has one consistent theme - every time you go back to the storyline, it’s a consistent theme and I like that. And also, the speakers were very varied, not just Law of Attraction people, I mean, I’m one of the Law of Attraction coaches in the film but there were people from all walks of life. There were people sharing adversities, there were billionaires that were sharing their secrets … normally not people that go out and speak.

So it was a little bit more of a varied group of people, but a very cohesive message. And we had the Vegas opening Friday night and we got a standing ovation. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the room. Everyone there just said: “Thank you. The Secret took us so far, but we really needed this. We really needed to know how do I make this come true in my life? How can I take it from vision to action?”

Connie: Actually you talk in your book about four steps to conscious creating. Could you tell us what they are?

Elisabeth: Sure. I’m all about conscious creating. That’s really what pre-paving is. I’m going to start with two, and then we’re going to expand, because two is really easy to say. You need two things and there’s an actual universal law for this - it’s the law of Deliberate Creation. Once you know the Law of Attraction (that what you think you attract) now you need to know well, how? Really, how can I become a deliberate creator? You need two things: desire and belief. If I want something badly enough and if I know and believe I can have it, then it will manifest.

But I like to expand it to two more things so that’s why I say in my book, there are four. So before you can really truly desire something fully, Connie, you need to know what it is that you want. You need intuition. And there’s a reason for this. I’ll tell you that the energy reason, the Law of Attraction reason, is that many of us are so in tune with what others want for us, we really don’t know what we truly want for ourselves. And so we’re putting out contradictory thoughts, saying: “I want this. No, I want this. No, I want that. And so and so wants this for me.” And so we send out contradictory thoughts. The moment we send out a thought, the universe is already starting to create it, you see. So when another thought comes in the universe is starting to create that, and we really don’t create much of anything if we’re swerving. So we need to have a clear vision.

And when we know what we want, we really need to focus on it. And I said earlier, let’s say you want a really wholesome relationship and a really healthy relationship, one that supports you and one that makes you feel loved, but if you’re in a bad one and you focus on what is you’re going to create more of what is. So it’s a shifting - it’s not just desiring something, you must put your attention on it. So the first two steps is knowing what you want, desiring and putting your attention on what you want, those two things.

Now the next two: belief and then action. And really so many people get to the intuition - they know what they want, they desire it, but then they don’t take it to the belief stage. Paving it forward and pre-paving is what takes care of your belief. Maybe all along you didn’t believe you could do it. In fact, we have so many limiting beliefs, Connie, and it’s the one thing that holds people back.

Because no matter how much you want something, if something isn’t working in your life that you want, you can bet you have a limiting belief surrounding it. And so by pre-paving what you want, even though you may not at first believe it, your subconscious mind takes it to be truth. Your subconscious mind is like the soil. You plant the seed of a pre-pave in it and it will grow. But now if you keep plucking up that seed saying: Oh, how is it going to grow, or is it growing?” your seed will never grow.

So your subconscious mind is the soil. You put a pre-pave in there and you water it with gratitude and good thoughts and feeling good and that seed will grow. And if you put in an orange seed, you’re not going to get coffee beans, okay? So if you put seeds in there of past regrets and “Oh, this person did this to me…” You see, whatever you’re putting into your vibrational field is creating your magnet. Your power for creating is in the present moment. So how do you create a belief system that matches your desires? You pre-pave it because your subconscious mind does not decipher between reality and a wish.

So let’s recap. We’ve developed our intuition; we know where we’re going. We decided this is what we want and I’m absolutely clear. I know what I want and I’m putting all my attention on it. Now we’ve pre-paved it and that’s really your first form of action. So we are programming our subconscious mind for success to match our desires and actions and now you need to take action. Because, like I said, the universe matches your investment plan. You raise one hand, the Divine lowers two to pick you up. You have to buy the ticket. But the more mental work you do, the less physical work you have to do. So action really isn’t a huge part of it, but it’s the final step. You really must pre-pave. It is really your biggest form of action. Because so many people say: “Oh, maybe I can’t do it” or they doubt themselves.

Or I’ll give you an example. You get behind the wheel of a car and you say: “Gee I hope there’s not a lot of traffic today.” Well, you’ve just pre-paved yourself. And so when you get behind the wheel of a car and you say: “I am safe and I reach my destination quickly, efficiently and with joy,” you are lining up the energy for that.

And I’ll show you physically what lining up the energy means. If I pre-pave safety - maybe I go to Tim Hortons every morning for my coffee... But today I decide I’m going to go to Starbucks because I just kind of feel like a gingerbread latte. Well, your mind has guided you over here and so you miss a large car pile-up that would have really set you back.

So the universe is guiding you through your mind, through your intuition, through your awareness. And it lines up the energy for success and it brings to you and attracts to you all of the resources and things that you will need. That’s why you don’t have to worry about the “how” because when you raise your consciousness and raise your vibration, you are in a state of receptivity, and all of the resources that you need will come to you almost like magic.

I remember when I worked for Mr. Joyce, there were Heads of State that would say to me: “Elisabeth you’re magical. How do you make these things happen for Mr. Joyce?” I practiced these teachings. I practiced the Law of Attraction and pre-paving with him. There were times where things were challenging. I had a really grueling work schedule.

One day Mr. Joyce and I were speaking very frankly and he said: “You amaze me, no matter how hard you are crushed, you always come up smelling like a rose.” And that meant so much to me. It meant that I was practicing what I was preparing myself to teach one day. When we are squeezed and we are tested, what comes out of us is what is inside of us. It has nothing to do with outside; it has nothing to do with the circumstance. When you squeeze an orange, what comes out is juice.

So when we are tested, when we are squeezed, what comes out is what’s inside of us. And what is inside of us is what we are focusing on. The Masters of India say you can focus on the sewers of life or you can focus on the birds in the sky - who do you want to be? And wherever you put your attention on, there is your energy for creating. And I’ve said that before. It’s very important. Where you put your attention, there is your energy for creating. And your power for creating is in the present moment, telling the universe what you want, and saying thank you. That’s all it is.

Connie: Now, along that line, you teach a method of journaling call the Journal of Positive Intentions, which I thought was great. Can you tell us more about that?

Elisabeth: I love this, Connie… There’s a traditional sort of journaling that has gone on for years where you write your feelings – “Oh, this happened to me,” “This makes me upset” or “This is what I was feeling.” And there’s nothing wrong with getting in tune with your feelings. In fact, I teach that, because feelings are a gift. They teach us. A negative feeling is just a sign to tell us that we are not, that our thoughts are not, taking us in the direction we are wanting to go. But, let it be known in the Law of Attraction, that what you think about, what you speak about, what you write about, comes true. It manifests. So when you go into your journal and you get all emotional and you start writing about all those things that you’re resentful for and all those things that you’re trying to overcome, you give it power. You are actually creating it.

Whichever type of journal you want or you have, or whatever type of journaling you do, this is your creation journal. Call it your creation journal, because whatever you are writing you are creating. So I created a journal of positive intentions and it’s a creation journal.

So I say to you, take three areas of your life and dream. What do you want? Take work, love and this life in general and dream it. What do you want? And get emotional. Get your emotions into it. If you are writing and you’re not getting your feelings into it, it’s really not creating much; I’ll tell you that. So you’ve got to put it in. The more you write about it, it brings power to it. You create by writing it.

And you know what? It really gives you clarity. I remembered for many years, I wanted to become a nun. I wanted to move to an ashram and just dedicate my life. And so when I started my first Positive Intentions Journal, I was so out of tune with what I wanted. I was trying to get away from desires and I was so out of tune. I remember telling my Reiki teacher that I have no desires; what am I supposed to write about? And she said: “Elisabeth, if you don’t know what you desire, then you’re out of tune.”

So here I thought I was doing great. I’d spent so many years with the Masters of India, saying that I need nothing, saying I want nothing. But really, Connie, we are here to create. We’re here to desire and not in a bad way; it’s good. We’re here to express and so when you start to write you would be amazed at what comes on the page. You’re going to be amazed. The moment you start to write, you’ll say: “I didn’t know I wanted that!”

I have 25 to 30 of these journals and I look back and the very car I drive right now, which is a gold Mercedes is something I put in there about six or seven years ago. That was in my journal, that exact car, and I drive it today. I forgot I wrote about it.

Now today, I might put in a different kind of car and maybe in a year or two from now that’s the one I’m going to have. But honestly, I built my business with it. Everything I have in my life is from paving it forward, from pre-paving, writing about it, feeling it, visualizing it and knowing that it’s already mine.

Connie: Good for you. Okay, our last question. The Opus speaks about the importance of becoming a legacy. What do you feel your opus will be? What do you want it to be?

Elisabeth: Well, you know, I’m so grateful for The Opus, because it’s actually helping me take my teachings around the world. The movie is going to be going around the world in the next 12 months and I’m going with it. And my opus is: As I had the light turned on for me, and as I was able to become a conscious powerful creator, I want to go around the world and teach everyone that I possibly can touch, every heart I can possibly reach, that you are a powerful creator and whatever it is that you want, you can make it happen. You have got the power; no one else. And don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t because you have everything inside of you - with your thoughts, with your words and what you write about, you can make it happen.

Connie: Well, thank you so much, Elisabeth, for talking with me today. Our readers can learn more about you or contact you through your website: www.elisabethfayt.com

Elisabeth: Yes, and an easier way, Connie, too is if they just go www.PavingItForward.com and that will get them there too.

Connie: Well, thank you so much, Elisabeth. You were just great and I’m sure our readers are going to love everything you say.

Elisabeth: I love any chance to talk about the Law of Attraction.

Posted by Connie Brisson on May 01, 2008 at 01:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

James Twyman Author and Producer of "The Moses Code"   Click the arrow to listen to this interview or read it below...

 
Connie: I’m lucky enough to be talking to James Twyman, the best-selling author of ten books, a filmmaker and a musician. James is also an internationally renowned promoter of peace. In the last ten years, he has drawn millions of people together in prayer to positively influence crises throughout the world, especially the Middle East.

James is coming to Edmonton as a keynote speaker for the Body, Soul and Spirit Expo on April 12th to talk about his upcoming book (Hay House) and documentary film (Emissary Productions & Hay House) called The Moses Code. The film will be out on April 5th followed by a worldwide prayer and meditation on April 6th to focus on world peace.

Welcome, James. Let’s start with the most obvious question first. What is ‘The Moses Code’?

James: Well, that’s a good question. Let me back up just a little bit and tell you how my exploration of that all came about.

First of all, most of us are aware of a movie that came out a year or two ago that got a lot of attention. That was The Secret (TS Productions LLC, 2006), a movie that focused on the Law of Attraction and how we can use that spiritual law to attract whatever we want into our life. Like everyone else, I saw that film and was very happy that there was a lot of energy around the world for people who wanted to understand and then begin practicing that law.

Almost from the very beginning, I began to sense that there was a real danger with the way it was being perceived because in my opinion, the Law of Attraction was being explored more as a way of serving the needs of the ego - which is that part of us that is always thinking that there are things outside of us (outside of who we really are) and that if we could only get those things, then we’d be satisfied, then we would have what we think we really want. But as most of us have realized by now, even when we do attract those physical things - whether it be new cars or relationships or houses - even when we do get those things, it hasn’t satisfied the real longing, which is the longing of the soul.

I think it’s very important for us to make that differentiation. The longing that we’re feeling is not coming from the ego. We could get all of those things, but all it really ends up doing is increasing our poverty because the longing that we’re trying to fulfill will never be satisfied by getting anything. That longing will only be satisfied through giving from our soul. This is really where The Moses Code came in.

I had written a book called The Art of Spiritual Peacemaking (Findhorn Press, 2006), where I explored very briefly the power that is found in the name of God that was given in the conversation that Moses had with God at the burning bush, 3,500 years ago. It was through that conversation that Moses was given the name of God, which in Hebrew is Ehyeh Asher Ehyea, or is often translated as: “I AM THAT I AM.”

Ultimately, what happened was Moses used this name and the power therein to create some of the most powerful and important miracles in history, all of which lead to the release of the Israelites from slavery. Even though this power and the power in that name did create those miracles, it was almost decided immediately that it was so holy, so far beyond our scope, that is was hidden away. It was locked away. People forgot about this incredible gift and how it can be practiced.

So I began to look at these two things together, both the power in that name and how it can be used to create miracles, and also how so many people today are wanting to realize and fulfill that longing which can really only be fulfilled in the soul. That was how both the book and the movie for The Moses Code came about.

I wanted to offer a practical and powerful tool through ‘The Moses Code’ or through the name of God: I AM THAT I AM and also to demonstrate how that can be used, not for the ego’s agenda, but to fulfill the longing of the soul. Quite simply that can be explained by saying that the ego is constantly trying to use these spiritual laws to get, whereas the soul is using them to give.

I think this is really where the soul is calling us today. It’s calling us to use these spiritual laws to serve and to help to create and to realize what we could call the ‘Peaceable Kingdom’ or a world that’s based upon the laws of compassion and peace instead of just simply trying to satisfy the endless longing of the ego.

I think this is the most important issue today. There are so many people who are aware and awake. If we can come together using the power of this through this conversation with God that happened 3,500 years ago and through allowing our soul to open to its greatest longing, this is really how we are going to serve the true needs of humanity on this planet at this remarkably important time in history…

…As you can tell, I’m very passionate about this. I look out at the world today and I see that on one hand this is one of the most difficult times in human history. There are more people who are focused on the ego. There’s more war. We’re destroying the environment. We have the ability to destroy the planet itself seven times over. Yet at the same time, this is one of the most positive and important times in history because there are so many people who are activated and passionate. We just need to come together in the soul rather than in the ego.

I don’t mean to belittle The Secret, but I do think that if we stop where The Secret stopped, we are doing ourselves an enormous injustice. We have to take that, perhaps, as a first step, but we then have to keep moving away from the ego’s constant desire to get more stuff and to use these spiritual laws just to serve that endless agenda and use it to serve the souls’ agenda, which is to truly transform the planet.

Connie: Can we just back up a little bit? In The Moses Code, in this book or the film, you’re going to teach people the power of ‘The Moses Code?’

James: Absolutely. Both the movie and the book teach a chant of using that name, I AM THAT I AM, to manifest from the level of soul rather than ego. So our intention with the movie in particular is that on April 5th, which will be the worldwide release of the film, we hope to have several thousand gatherings, whether it be in homes or theatres or churches or wherever they might be, where there are groups of people who first watch the movie and learn ‘The Moses Code.’

Then on April 6th, that will be the day where the worldwide prayer vigil will be taking place. It will be from noon to 1:00 p.m., Eastern Time. People all over the world during that hour will be using ‘The Moses Code’ in a practical experiment, sending that energy to the Middle East, which is obviously a place that is so in need of prayer and light right now.

I think what’s going to happen is on that day after everyone has learned ‘The Moses Code’ and then applies it on April 6th, we’re going to see a dramatic shift in things. I’ve had the opportunity, as you know, to travel to the Middle East many times and to focus other prayer vigils in Iraq and other places. Each time we’ve done that, we have felt tangible, energetic results. Having the opportunity to do this with this powerful tool called ‘The Moses Code’ is only going to amplify that.

Connie: So what would you say then is the goal of your film? Would it be to promote world peace?

James: Yes. Well, that’s a good question. I would say that the primary goal of this film is a call to action. It’s a wake-up call. It’s a call for us to once and for all wake up and realize that the world itself, our planet, humanity, stands on the precipice of an amazing and important decision. Are we going to continue to move in the same direction that we’re moving right now and completely destroy the planet or are we going to use these spiritual tools that have been given to us through divinity itself? Are we going to begin to use them to create something that will sustain the soul’s agenda, which is peace and compassion?

So this is the goal of The Moses Code itself to show people the urgency of this time and to show that each one of us has an important role to play, although that important role may reveal itself in very ordinary ways. Basically, every moment, we have an opportunity to be in service. Every moment, we have the opportunity to bless, to heal, to transform. If we can realize that and begin to apply that in the ordinary moments of our lives, then this energy that we call ‘The Moses Code’ is going to take off and will begin to build such momentum that the ending will be exactly what we’ve always hoped for.

Connie: You’ve described ‘The Moses Code’ as the most powerful manifestation technique ever known to humanity… You say that it’s such a huge thing and such a huge tool, yet nobody really has done anything or known anything about it. It’s been hidden for so long. Why do you think that is?

James: First of all, in a general sense, it has been hidden. As I said before, what we’re talking about when we say ‘The Moses Code’ is harnessing the identification of ourselves as one with our divine source, or one with God. That was first done and realized 3,500 years ago when Moses was at that burning bush and was given the name of God. He used the power of that name to create some of the most powerful and important miracles in the history of the world. So that is why I say that this is the most powerful, manifestation tool in history because many of the miracles that we still read about in the Bible were created through this.

As I also said, unfortunately, at that time, maybe it was simply that we weren’t ready to fully harness it. At least from an Orthodox Jewish perspective, it was claimed that we couldn’t use the name. It was locked away. Even the exact pronunciation of the name of God was lost. Yet, if we look back through history, we can see that there are many saints and sages from many different traditions who have also unlocked ‘The Moses Code’ and have used the name to create miracles in their life.

One example would be Jesus. There are quite a few stories, actually, in the Gospels where we can see ‘The Moses Code’ arise. Jesus harnessed that power. One example would be when Jesus is talking about the temple and how the temple could be destroyed, but it could be raised up. No one can believe this. So he says to them: “Before Moses and the prophets, I AM.”

Basically, what happened then is it says they picked up stones to kill him because in saying that, he committed blasphemy because he had used the name of God, I AM, or Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh in Hebrew, and he had identified himself as one with that divine source. In other words, he claimed that he was God. That was the reason why they picked up stones to kill him.

So it was obvious from some of these stories that Jesus not only understood ‘The Moses Code’ but that he was practicing it himself. This was the source of his own unified consciousness or realization - that he was one with God. Then he was able to harness that power as Moses did.

So though it’s been hidden all this time, it does show up in many different ways through the mythical traditions in many different religions and traditions and also through some of the greatest teachers, Jesus being one example.

Connie: I actually went into your web-site, www.TheMosesCode.com and I watched the trailer. Those two words came up over and over: I AM. I AM fat. I AM unhappy. I AM …, I AM…

James: Yes.

Connie: What do you think the power of those two words are for people, everyday? People say that all the time. I AM this. I AM that.

James: Yes, that’s a great question. One of the people in the movie that addresses this so well is Iyanla Vanzant, who you saw there in the trailer. What Iyanla says is that our name indicates who we are. When we use the word, ‘I’ it’s like we’re claiming something. Using the word, ‘am’ gives action to that word. So when we say: “I AM something,” what we don’t realize is that we’re actually creating an energy pattern that is much more powerful than we think. When we say something like: “I AM fat” or “I AM unworthy” or whatever, what we’re really doing is actually harnessing the energy of that and claiming that through that divine source of power that’s within each one of us. In other words, we’re using ‘The Moses Code’ in reverse.

The fact is even though the technology has been lost for 3,500 years, we all use ‘The Moses Code’ every day. We say: “I AM this” or “I AM that.” When we claim something like that, the universe responds and says: “Okay. Then let’s bring all of that into your conscious reality so you can experience what you’re claiming yourself to be.” So, if I say: “I AM unworthy” then the universe is going to give you lots of different ways of realizing that you are unworthy.

If we can turn that around and say: “I AM holy. I AM whole. I AM worthy of love,” the same thing will happen. The universe then begins to provide us with opportunities to realize our loving nature, to realize our wholeness, our oneness.

Part of The Moses Code is to realize that we are doing this already. We simply have to be more conscious about who we’re claiming ourselves to be and what we’re drawing into our reality through the Law of Attraction. We can use this, if we’re conscious, to realize the soul’s longing which is to realize wholeness as opposed to the ego’s longing, which is to realize separation.

Connie: Debbie Ford is in the documentary. She’s also co-producer of the film. Who are some of the other spiritual teachers? You just mentioned Iyanla Vanzant. Who else?

James: Some of the others would be Andrew Harvey, Cheryl Richardson, Neal Donald Walsch, James Van Praagh, Harvil Hendrix, Gregg Braden, John Holland. Who am I forgetting? I’m probably forgetting quite a few. There are so many people that really were interested in this.

I have to say that one of the reasons why so many of these very wonderful, well-known, spiritual teachers wanted to be part of this was because, like I did, they all felt that something needed to be added to this discussion on the Law of Attraction that was reflective of the life of the soul rather than the ego.

I can’t say how many people I’ve talked to, not only spiritual teachers, but just people who have watched the film, who have on one hand as we’ve said before, been happy that this first step was taken, but on the other hand, have said: “My goodness, we need to add something to this because if we don’t, we’re in trouble because if we continue down this path, just using these spiritual laws thinking that it’s all about me, me, me, then all we’re going to do is keep adding to the problem. We’re going to accelerate this path that we’ve been taking into complete disaster.”

We, as people who are on spiritual paths, need to be the ones who are offering the alternative to that. The only way that’s going to happen is by using these spiritual laws to serve, to fulfill the soul’s agenda, not the ego’s agenda. So many of these teachers were completely in line with that. This is what their lives are about. So that’s why they wanted to be part of The Moses Code.

Connie: Yes. I’ve heard a lot of people say that same thing about The Secret. So would you say that if The Secret hadn’t come out, you may not have been inspired to do this book?

James: Yes. That is a very legitimate thing to say. Sometimes, you can’t continue a conversation until it’s been started. Maybe this has been the great gift of The Secret, to begin a conversation that leads us into this. I bless it for that. For me, this is not about bashing The Secret at all because I think it has played its role perfectly. I do believe that through this film and book and hopefully many other projects, we’re going to be able to deepen and further this discussion and to realize that ‘the secret’ is not about how much I can get. ‘The secret’ is about how much I can give.

Connie: So what is your story? As I was reading about you, I was so interested in that. How did you become to be so dedicated and involved with world peace and helping people? Was there one event that started it all for you? Has this always been a passion?

James: Well, it’s always been a passion but if there was one event that I could point to, it occurred back in 1994. It was when a friend of mine gave me a sheet of paper that had the peace prayers from all the different 12 major religions on it. These were prayers that had been prayed in Assisi, Italy (which is my favorite place in the whole world) the home of St. Francis, back in 1986 when for the first time in history, the leaders of all the different religions of the world came together to each pray the peace prayer from their tradition.

In 1994 when I was given those prayers, I had an amazing experience where I was reading them and I began to hear this music. At first, I literally wasn’t sure if it was coming from inside me or the next room. I picked up my guitar and I began to play along. I’ve always been a musician. I’ve always been a songwriter but I’ve never had an experience like this.

Basically what happened was, as I read each one of those prayers, the music was just there. Within one hour, I put all 12 of them to music. I knew that this was a tremendous gift. It was a gift that was meant to be shared.

I began traveling around the world at that time as basically a penniless troubadour doing this peace concert. I began getting invited to countries where wars and conflicts were going on - the first being in 1995 to Croatia and Bosnia during the Balkan War, sharing the concert on television and in refugee camps and many other places throughout that whole region.

It was while I was there that I met this incredible group of mystics called ‘The Emissaries of Light’ who had a message for the world. Essentially their message was just to tell people that we’re ready for this. We’re ready, finally, once and for all, to begin creating a world based upon the laws of compassion and peace.

I wrote the book, Emissary of Light (Findhorn Press, 2007), which became a best seller. It kind of launched me in a much bigger way. The message has been the same throughout the last 10 or 12 years, which is simply to get people to embrace that it’s time for us to recognize that we really are joined, that we have a lot more in common than we do differences. We all long for peace, every culture, every religion, every person. We want that in our lives and in the world. If we can simply realize the ways that we’re the same rather than the ways that we’re different and use these spiritual technologies to accomplish that, that’s when we’re going to see the dramatic shift in the world that we’ve been longing for.

Connie: I just want to end by letting our readers know that they can host a viewing of the documentary on April 5th. So what would you recommend? If someone is interested in hosting the film, what should they do?

James: What people can do is go to www.TheMosesCode.com. All the info is there. As you’ve said, our goal is to encourage people to have small groups in their home. We’ll send them a DVD. There’s a small cost to being part of it, just to help cover the cost. But we’ll send you the book, the DVD, and lots of other tools that’ll allow you to have not only a group in your home, but then how to activate the ‘The Moses Code’ with the group and in your own life. If we can have thousands of those gatherings around the world on April 5th, and then activate this on April 6th, I know that we’re going to sense some very dramatic shift, not only in the Middle East, but inside each one of us.

Connie: Well, this has been great. You’ve been great to talk to. I’m very excited because you’re here April 12th, only a week after the meditation. I can’t wait to hear your talk about how you think that this shifted things because I am sure it will in a huge way.

James: It will be great to be there in Canada. I’m looking so forward to coming. I’m so glad we were able to do this interview.

Connie: Yes, thank you. I really appreciate it.

James: You’re welcome.

Posted by Connie Brisson on February 01, 2008 at 03:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

What better way of creating a more fulfilling life than by mastering the art of tuning into your most inspired and ingenious self … your inner voice?

This voice is your guide of all guides to a life of greatness. You cannot attune to this inspiring voice without living a more inspiring life. Genius, creativity, and a silent power emerge from your heart and mind the moment you do.

The secret of tuning in to its magnificent messages is having a heart filled with gratitude. When your heart is opened wide with gratitude your inner voice becomes loud and clear and your most life expanding messages
enter into your mind with ease.

If your heart is filled with gratitude, it is almost impossible to stop your inner voice from speaking clearly and profoundly. Many great spiritual revelations and mental attributes are suddenly birthed from within you when your voice on the inside becomes louder than the many voices or opinions on the outside.

The immortal masters of life have been those who have mastered the ability to attune to their great inner voices. Those great beings that mastered this talent left their marks in history. From Christ, who listened to his heavenly Father, to Dante, who listened to Beatrice, to Walt Whitman and many others who listened to their guiding whisper, all have impacted humanity with the resultant immortal expressions of their inner voice.

As your voice on the inside grows in clarity and strength so will your inspiration when you listen. Begin to attune to that inspiring station from within. Listen as it guides you to new levels of creativity and operation.

Your inner voice will put few or no limits on your life. Only the many outer voices of others, who themselves live a life of mediocrity, will do so. Decide now to expand your wisdom and fulfillment through careful listening of your inner voice.

Follow the steps below and commune with this wise inner guide. It will help you create a greater contribution to others and possibly even a legacy.

1. Stand relaxed with your hands loosely at your side.
2. Take a few deep breaths. Inhale and exhale through the nose slowly.
3. Tilt your head up 30 degrees.
4. Turn your eyes up another 30 degrees, until you are looking forward and upward.
5. Close your eyelids and let them become relaxed.
6. Think about something or someone you are truly and deeply grateful for.
7. Keep thinking and being thankful until you feel your heart has truly opened up and you have even experienced a tear of inspiration.
8. Upon attaining a grateful state, now ask your inner voice for any guiding message. Ask: “Inner voice, do you have a message for me at this moment?”
9. When you are grateful enough and you ask for a message, a message will clearly come.
10.Write this message down.
11. If your message does not become immediately and clearly revealed, repeat steps 6 - 10 until it does.

When you are truly grateful you will receive amazing and inspiring inner messages.

These messages will be more powerful than might at first be apparent. The master or genius is the one who listens carefully. When you are grateful and your heart becomes opened, powerful inner message will be revealed to you. These priceless gems of guiding revelation will assist you in living a life of greatness.

Be sure to act on your inspirations as soon as possible. When you don’t follow the inspirations and intuitions of your inner voice promptly, you can begin to emotionally beat yourself up. This is not terrible though for it is simply part of the grand and magnificent design of conscious evolution. It is a blessing for it assures that no matter what happens, you will eventually learn and gradually or immediately unfold your inner spiritual mission, talent and destiny.

Life events will at times force you to listen to that wise voice within. The inspired beings throughout history learned to follow it. Those who have ignored it have passed by many opportunities it could have provided.

For decades many psychologist have considered individuals who have heard their inner voices as bordering on the edge of sanity. But, if you look carefully at the many great spiritual leaders, scientists, artists, musicians and social leaders, they regularly listened to their inner voices. They gratefully awakened this special inner communion regularly. The great philosophers have stated that they would rather have the whole world against them than their own inner soul.

Today, you have an opportunity for expanding your greatness. When your wise and masterful voice on the inside becomes greater than the many little voices on the outside, a life of great fulfillment, wisdom and genius can become yours.

Dr. John F. Demartini is the author of more than 40 books, an international speaker in over 50 countries and one of he experts featured in ‘The Secret.’ His new book ‘The Gratitude Effect’ will be coming out soon. For more visit www.drdemartini.com

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