April 2006 Newsletter
Online Issue # 12

Good Books

Trust Your Vibes
Secret Tools for Six-Sensory Living
by Sonia Choquette
Hay House, 2005
paperback, $14.95

Sonia Choquette is a professional intuitive, spiritual teacher and guide whose other books include: Diary of a Psychic, The Psychic Pathway, True Balance, and Your Heart's Desire. Choquette helps people learn to use and trust the guidance of their intuitive sixth sense. Her mission is to increase awareness of this spiritual—rather than physical—sense and how much we need it to "fulfill our life's purpose and to be peaceful and happy."

The book consists of 33 secrets (chapters) with titles like the following: The Sixth Sense Is Common Sense, Go With The Flow, Seek Higher Vibrations, Love The Adventure, Laughing Matters, and Slow Down. Choquette uses interesting stories from her work and life to illustrate the use of simple practices and techniques for developing intuition. Each chapter concludes with an idea for six-sensory practice.

This is an interesting, practical and informative book about a natural ability that can develop our creativity, nurture our spirituality, enhance our lives and increase our sense of well-being.

Also available from Hay House for $15.95, Trust Your Vibes Oracle Cards: A Powerful Tool Kit for Awakening Your Sixth Sense. Contains a 52-card deck plus guidebook.

"Being passionate about life tends to change your vibration from one of resistance and defense to one of attraction and receptivity. When you love life, life loves you back—so when you dive into it with exuberance and joy, life will reach out and enthusiastically embrace you. The more you love life by fully engaging in what feeds your soul, the more you spread that love around, and in doing so you heal yourself and others."

-Sonia Choquette

A New Earth
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
by Eckhart Tolle
Dutton, 2005
hardcover, $24.95

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and author of the best-selling book The Power of Now. Tolle's latest book, again about spiritual awakening, follows his first by seven years which he spent teaching and giving talks around the world. Those years refined and evolved his teaching, but more importantly they highlighted the urgency of a new and more loving way for humanity to inhabit the earth.

A New Earth examines in great detail the current state of humanity identified with ego-based consciousness. Following this Tolle introduces the shift/leap in consciousness that will reveal, and allow us to experience, who we truly are. It isn't until chapter nine—the book has ten chapters—that Tolle touches directly on your life's purpose. But there are glimpses in every chapter of living more freely, more peacefully, more joyfully and true to your purpose.

One chapter in particular, The Pain-Body, beautifully explains how our negative thoughts feed our emotional pain and keep it alive. While reading this chapter (I don't think it was a coincidence) I had the opportunity to both experience and observe this process occurring in my own mind. I found myself feeling afraid and upset when something didn't happen the way I thought it would. Eventually I saw that I was keeping the fear alive with my thoughts. To stop the pain this was causing, all I had to do was stop the thoughts, the ones I was using to feed and keep the fear and pain alive. So clear, yet so difficult; but I got it and I haven't forgotten.

Also available from Penguin Audio for $29.95, as an unabridged set of 8 CDs read by the author.

"There are three ways in which consciousness can flow into what you do and thus through you into this world, three modalities [Acceptance, Enjoyment, Enthusiasm] in which you can align your life with the creative power of the universe....Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly....Enjoyment is the second modality of awakened doing. On the new earth, enjoyment will replace wanting as the motivating power behind people's actions....Enthusiasm means there is deep enjoyment in what you do plus the added element of a goal or a vision that you work toward. You will feel like an arrow that is moving toward the target—and enjoying the journey."

-Eckhart Tolle

Inspiration
Your Ultimate Calling
by Wayne Dyer
Hay House, 2006
hardcover, $24.95

Wayne Dyer's newest book, and latest PBS television special, looks at inspiration with a twist on the ordinary. Instead of viewing inspiration as a mysterious, motivating energy that occasionally visits us, Dyer looks at inspiration as how we are called to live: "in-Spirit." How we go about our day, choosing to inspire others and allowing ourselves to be inspired, is what determines whether inspiration freely flows through our lives.

The book is full of Dyer's stories of how he practices inspiration and how he has been inspired by others. His enthusiasm and generosity toward the people he encounters might prompt you to examine your own interactions. Could you be making more of a difference, for others and yourself, in those brief, unplanned encounters that happen throughout an ordinary day? Would you be feeling more inspired yourself, if you reached out more to others? Do you slow down enough to allow situations and others to inspire you?

Dyer likes lists and offers them throughout the book: Ego's Dominating Messages, Essential Principles For Finding Your Way To An Inspired Life, The 12-Step Program to Simplicity, When You Are Inspired.... At the end of each chapter you'll find a section with suggestions for putting the ideas in the chapter to work.

In the Introduction, Dyer claims this is his most personal book yet. Critics might say it is also his most "preachy," pointing to frequent passages where Dyer seems to have it all figured out. In spite of that, reading the book is an opportunity to examine taking a more active role in living a life that inspires you and others, not just on occasion, but in a day-to-day way.

"Make an affirmation that whatever brings passion, enthusiasm, and inspiration to you is on its way. Say it often: It is on its way, it will arrive on time, and it will arrive in greater amounts than I imagined. Then look for even the tiniest clue that will help you be a vibrational match with your affirmation. You'll get what you think about, whether you want it or not!"

-Wayne Dyer

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