Meet Candace

I met Candace a couple of years ago when I signed up to receive a weekly vegetable box from her CSA organic farm. Instantly, I knew Candace was a person whom I wanted to know for a long time to come.

Her cheerful outlook, inspiring comments and contagious enthusiasm are qualities I felt drawn to. I knew at first meeting that Candace would be an awesome role model and that she was destined for great things.

And so my friends, I’m very excited for you to meet my friend Candace and hear her inspiring story of healing and transformation through her personal journey from organic farmer to happiness coach.

1)      How did farming heal you? Transform you?

When I went into farming I had no idea how it would transform me.  Farming was just this dream I carried with me for so long, I really had no intention of going into it to be transformed, but that is what happened.  Farming helped me to come alive.  To see life differently, as a miracle, and to see myself as an extension of that miracle (simply for the fact of being alive!).  I experienced for the first time the miracle of life…how a tiny seed turns into this bountiful plant, and how when I eat that plant it turns into me.  I saw the ‘oneness’ of everything and this transformed how I thought about and approached food.  No longer was it just something I did, without paying much attention to the bare minimum signals of hunger my body gave me, but it became this living connection to the earth.  I had so much more respect for food, the environment, and life.  I saw and ate it with so much more gratitude and appreciation.  I naturally wanted to nourish myself with the ‘right’ foods, no longer was dieting necessary.

 Through mustering up the courage to live my farm dream this too transformed me.  I never thought I could do very much before this…I felt inherently flawed, unworthy, and incapable of living out my dreams (and just as a human being).  Although other people encouraged me, I always had this internal dialogue that said, ‘if they only really knew what I was capable of, they wouldn’t encourage me to do it!’.  But when I crossed over that threshold of fear to the other side…I realized that YES, I was capable, I can do it!  I felt confident in myself (even with my flaws) and I was filled with a joy and passion for life that I had never experienced before.  All from knowing that I could do it, my dreams are possible, and that life is there to support me.  Wow…it left me with the belief that if I could do it…really anyone can do it!

2)      How do you experience the miraculous?

Wow!  Hmm…sometimes I lose it, but for the most part when I consciously stop and observe life around me…I can see miracles everywhere.  Miracles aren’t usually the BIG things as we have become accustomed to thinking, but often small little things that we often overlook.  I believe miracles surround us in every moment.  The ability to send a message to someone on the other side of the world in seconds, the transformation of a seed into a plant, the rising and setting of the sun, an egg hatching into a little bird, the fact that we can eat, talk, think, and breath ALL at the same time!   Wow…life is incredible, we are so blessed, we just need to remind ourselves to appreciate it.

3)  What inspired the act of faith to leave farming and move into the unknown?

I was hearing a calling.  A little feeling in my heart, a little chatter in my mind…that was causing me to question my path.  I started noticing how I was always doing my best to lift others up, to encourage them, to inspire the people around me…I even started saying to my customers and volunteers, ‘happiness first, vegetables second’.  I noticed too, that rather than picking up books on farming, I was drawn to books on personal growth and development … spirituality and God.  Then after going to a meditation on happiness, I had a friend mention to me how he saw me as so happy already, and that he thought I should really be the one teaching the class!  This made me pause.  I knew there was something there.  I knew that despite how much I loved farming…what I really do best is not growing plants but growing people!  Farming was there on my journey to ground me in myself, to enable me to believe in myself, to help me uncover my true gifts, and to teach me the life wisdom (from nature) that is essential to the message I now have to share.  So I felt that to really honour this ‘calling’, I had to leave the farm behind.  I needed to be able to devote myself 100% to where I felt I was being led. 

4)  What keeps you going when you are discouraged?

Gratitude.  An appreciation of even the small things in my life.  Even when nothing seems to be working for me, I still have so much to be grateful for.  Even the little things…like a comfy bed, a loving dog, a family that loves me, food for my belly.  All of it counts, all of it is important.  Choose to dwell in a state of positivity and gratitude and I believe more will be given to us.

It also helps me to remind myself that my thoughts are a choice.  I could choose negative self-defeating ones or I can choose positive uplifting ones.  It may seem like our perception of our experience is ‘the truth’ , but when we can humble ourselves enough to see that others have had hard times too (many of the same underlying things as us), and some of them can still be so positive about it.  I found this really empowering…it helped me see that they just saw it a different way, in a more positive way…so if they could see it that way, why couldn’t I choose to see it that way too?

Lastly, during these trying times, I remind myself that everything in life is truly a gift.  It sure may not seem like when life gets hard, REALLY hard, but it is true.  When I look back on my life I see that all the times I hated, felt cheated, felt betrayed by God…these were the times that I’m now so grateful for.  They helped shape my character and transform me into a much stronger, more resilient, compassionate and loving human being.  These times are a true test of our character.  It is our job to affirm during these times the values and character traits that we really want to possess and do our best to live them…be loving even when we feel like hating, be patient even when we feel like things are happening too slowly, give even when we think it is our turn to get.  Do this…and we will have inner peace no matter what…we will let shine that person we truly are at our core.  And we will be transformed from a ‘victim’ of our circumstances into a ‘victor’.

5)  What do you hope to inspire in people through your new business as a happiness coach?

Well, to me this feels more like a ministry than a business.  I feel so passionate about the wisdom I have to share.  It comes from inside me but also from my connection to spirit.  Everything I feel called to share is from my own personal life experience.  I feel that it is my duty to remove the cloak of shame I carried around, and make my life an open book for others to learn from.  To see that no matter who we are, we all have weaknesses, vulnerabilities, parts of ourselves we aren’t proud of, but that doesn’t make us less of a person.  We grow by exposing those parts of ourselves so that they can be healed.  Our shames may be different but we ALL have them.  Realizing this can be incredibly liberating.  No longer are we trapped trying to hide parts of ourselves, but rather freed to be fully human (flaws and all)…the fear melts away and LOVE takes its place.

So what I hope to inspire in others is a sense that they are enough, they are special and have amazing gifts to be shared with the world (no matter how ‘extravagant’ they may be).  That we are all in this human experience together, and deep down we all want to be loved, feel worthy, and have a sense of purpose (that our lives matter!).    My desire is to help us be true to ourselves, overcome the fear that hinders us, to heal these ‘dark’ parts of ourselves, to honour the gifts inside us, and to trust and love ourselves.  To see ourselves, our lives as miracles…not to be wasted but to be LIVED fully. 

Thank you Candace! Your love lifts us higher.

Candace Wormsbecker:   A student of life.  She writes weekly messages that inspire us to think differently about our lives, to trust life, to have confidence in ourselves, and to live life authentically and passionately…to live the lives we have been called forth to live.

Please visit Candace’s website, Joyfulsoulhappiness.com to find out about Candace’s Love Yourself, Love Your Life program. Also visit Joyfulsoulhappinesscoaching Facebook page.

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I would love to hear your thoughts in the comment section below.

How do you experience the miraculous? What makes you come alive or ignites your passion? How do you overcome discouragement?

If you enjoyed this interview, please share on your favorite social media site. As always, thank you so much for reading. I hope the articles on Miracle Mama inspire you as much as it inspire me to share!

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Hello All and welcome to new subscribers, I hope this email finds you well.

Almost four months have passed since my last blog post, Miracles with Gregg Braden.  Much has occurred in my life. You probably find the same in your life. Things happen as you know all too well.

If you are like me and you deal with chronic health issues then you know how it robs you of your energy and consumes much time in medical appointments and wellness practices. You will also know that living life becomes much more complicated. It’s a struggle to earn income. It’s a struggle to keep up with daily activities. Sometimes, it’s a struggle to stay motivated as life continues to throw obstacles in your direction.

But, whether you deal with health issues or not, life still has its challenges for many. So — that’s why in addition to bringing you (and I) more miracle stories in future, I have also scheduled a series of interviews with some amazing and inspiring people.

And while I will not claim to have the answers to life’s mysteries or life’s challenges, it is my hope you will find inspiration in the offerings on the Miracle Mama blog and that they will bring some added peace and joy into your life.

I’ll be back next week with an inspiring story from one of my good friends. In the meantime, I want to share one of the thousands of quote’s that I love from the book titled, The Eye of the I . (btw, this is not an affiliate link)

“What the people in the world actually want is the recognition of who they really are on the highest level, to see that the same Self radiates forth within everyone, heals their feeling of separation, and brings about a feeling of peace.” — David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

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Thank you for your continued support as we journey together on ‘the road less traveled’ (M. Scott Peck, 1936-2005).

Blessings,

Marianne

Hello Miracle Enthusiasts! How are ya’ll doing? I hope you’re doing well.

Today I want to share with you an incredible story about a healing performed in a medicine-less hospital in Beijing, China.

Two years ago, I came across a video clip showing an excerpt of a talk given by author and speaker, Gregg Braden at a conference in Milan, Italy. In the video, Gregg describes the case of a woman who was diagnosed with an inoperable bladder cancer by Western doctors.

In The Divine Matrix Paperback Book, Gregg explains that the woman went to the Beijing hospital as a last resort when all else failed.

At the hospital, patients are taught “new eating habits, gentle forms of movement to stimulate the life force (chi) within the body, and novel methods of breathing.” These practices help strengthen the body “for the healing that’s possible.”

When the patient is ready, they “undergo the treatment that  was recorded on the video.”

Gregg’s instructor created the film,  101 Miracles of Natural Healing, to show the power to heal lives within each of us.

Gregg shows a clip from that video during his talk in Milan (2007). The clip shows the woman’s bladder cancer disappear within minutes. Please watch the video to see what I mean (Gregg sets up the clip at the 1:22 minute mark).

In the film clip, the experienced meditators held the feeling (a knowing) in their mind and heart that the healing was already done.

In the next video, Gregg Braden further explains how the woman’s bladder cancer was healed making the case that human feelings, the ancients called prayer, affect matter.

Gregg’s book, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer, describes a forgotten form of prayer lost in the West, but found to still be used in the remote monasteries of Tibet and in the high deserts of the American Southwest.

St. Matthew 17:20 (KJV) “And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief:  for verily I say unto you. If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove:  and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”

What is the “faith as a grain of mustard seed,” but the absolute knowing that it will grow into a mustard plant for within it, is its blueprint. It is already done.

We don’t heal because we are surrounded and influenced by a mass consciousness that says and believes we can’t heal. We lack the knowing; “faith as a grain of mustard seed”.

Some of us find the key to override the mass consciousness, while others of us still search. One thing is for certain; each of us have our own unique and sacred path.

Well, I hope you liked this story. I know that I found this story inspiring and so wanted to share it with you too. Please share if it inspires you.

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Lydia Herrle, the beautiful warrior butterfly, a miracle story.

On May 17th, 2012, the unthinkable happened. As thirteen year old Lydia Herrle stepped off the school bus at the end of her lane, she was struck by a recycling truck. Her slight frame flew twenty-five meters across the highway pavement.

Lydia’s mom, Michelle, had gone into town to do an errand when her two boys called her cell to say it looked like a recycling truck hit a bus at the end of their lane.

Minutes later, Michelle received another call to say Lydia had been hit, it was bad and she might not make it.

Lydia’s injuries were extensive. She was transported first to a local city hospital and within an hour air-lifted to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children where it was determined Lydia had a fractured skull, sternum and rib fractures, displaced collarbone, collapsed lung, internal bleeding, bruised liver and “road rash” covered her arms and legs from being thrown across the pavement.

The thirteen year-old lay in a coma with severe brain injuries.

Apparently, a coma is the body’s protective response to significant trauma and when the body is sufficiently healed the person emerges from the coma state.

Within days of the accident, lime green (Lydia’s favourite colour) ribbons began appearing everywhere in the community. Home owners tied them around trees in their yards, on mailboxes and light fixtures, around telephone poles, around door handles, vehicle owners tied them around mirrors.

Whether you were traveling through the several small towns on the cities periphery or traveling in the city itself, it seemed everyone was praying for Lydia Herrle and helping her to stay strong.

A local high school posted a  sign, “We believe! Lydia Herrle, class of 2017.”

Lydia’s mom, Michelle started a blog, “Pray for Lydia 2012” four days after Lydia’s accident to share the family’s journey and to thank the community for all their support.

Michelle continued to share the progress and setbacks Lydia experienced while recovering and to share poems, quotes and music for inspiration along the healing journey.

In a post made in May 2012, Michelle writes —

“In a conversation with a dear friend, we likened Lydia’s coma to the cocooning that happens, before the butterfly emerges.  It is quiet and still in the cocoon, but much transformation is taking place.  Praying for beautiful things for Lydia in this time.”

Lydia began to emerge slowly from the coma in late June, roughly six weeks after the accident. Although still in the coma, her eyes opened, however Lydia’s brain was still healing. It was on July 21st hospital staff determined that Lydia was no longer in the coma.

Although recovery from a brain injury can take years, it is known that most of the healing occurs within the first two years.

Lydia has completed only 25% of her recovery time (of 2 yrs.) yet she has made phenomenal gains in the several months since the accident. She has had to re-learn to walk, eat, talk, virtually all of the tasks most of us take for granted. Lydia’s medical team see her progressing much faster than what was predicted.

Immense love surrounds Lydia through her healing journey. It is said, the power of love can heal anything. Lydia Herrle’s story is a testament. The Miracle of Anita Moorjani is a testament. The Miracle of Lester Levenson is a testament.

Lydia tells her story of being in the coma in a video titled, “Warrior Butterfly.” Please watch this inspiring 3-minute video and witness the amazing courage and determination of the warrior butterfly princess.

Thank you Lydia Herrle for showing us how love can move mountains. You are such a courageous warrior butterfly!

Reference:  Article, “Lives Forever Changed” Most Waterloo Region.com and Pray for Lydia – Official blog of Michelle and James Herrle

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Dear Miracle Mama readers,

This is the story of an Angel named Amanda Todd.

Some of you may know this story. Others may not. This is a sad story.

Amanda Todd was born on November 27, 1996. Amanda ended her life on October 10, 2012. Amanda was fifteen years old.

(photo: Facebook.com)

Why did this happen?

As a young teen, Amanda endured three years of being stalked, blackmailed, tormented and bullied by an online predator and classmates. Despite changing schools  several times in attempt to leave her tormentors behind; the torments followed. In one incident, Amanda was physically assaulted by peers. Her father found her in a ditch.

Amanda’s story is not new. Countless teens and young people have ended their life due to being bullied, ridiculed and shamed. The stories are endless. It’s a fact that teen suicide is the second highest cause of death.

Amanda’s story and the stories of others who end their life due to bullying sheds light on the cruelty that exists in us as a society.

What makes us act so cruelly toward another? What is in the person who stalks and blackmails another? What is in the person who torments, shames and ridicules another over and over again? How do we get sucked into justifying the cruelty of one toward another so that it becomes a group effort?

Amanda Todd’s mother, Carol Todd, describes Amanda as a very caring individual who would help others who needed it. Amanda’s father, Norm Todd, refers to Amanda as “a strong little girl.” In fact, the two were planning to get a tattoo together that said, “Stay. Strong.”

Can and will Amanda’s story help us to uplift each other and aspire us to loftier values such as; patience, tolerance, forgiveness, responsibility, compassion and concern for others?

Can and will Amanda’s story help us to see what is missing in a society of individuals that cruelly bullies another?

Do we as a society have any idea about what Love really is?

Amanda Todd is an Angel because her short life is touching millions worldwide. Amanda Todd lives in the heart of each one of us, including her tormentors, as a cry for Love. Please help answer the call.

A strong little girl’s story has brought to light a need and some people are working together to ensure change happens. Jian Ghomeshi is one of those people. Please listen to Jian’s essay here, then click the Listen button on his page.

“…and so for Amanda, here’s hoping that somehow, somewhere, you can hear this; we are collectively sorry, and this one is for you.”  Jian Ghomeshi.

Thank you for taking the time to read and share this post.  Please help spread the message of Angel Amanda Todd.

Stop bullying worldwide.

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Dear Miracle Mama readers,

It is with immense pleasure that I share with you another inspiring story that illustrates the miracle of love and compassion.

Jack Kornfield tells a beautiful story about Tenzin, a Tibetan refugee. Kornfield worked as a hospice nurse when he met Tenzin.

Tenzin was diagnosed with a curable form of cancer. His doctor admitted him to the hospital for the first round of chemotherapy. Now, Tenzin was a gentle man, but during the treatment, he became very agitated and argumentative with the nurses and the doctors.

Tenzin’s wife explained to them that he had been held as a political prisoner by the Chinese communist army for seventeen years. They killed his first wife and repeatedly tortured and brutalized him throughout his imprisonment.

She told them that he feels tortured by the hospital treatments. They gave him flashbacks of what he suffered in the prison and it caused him to feel hatred inside just like he felt toward those Chinese soldiers.

She said, he would rather die than have to live with the hatred he feels again. Further, she added that according to their belief it is very bad to have hatred in your heart at the time of death.

Tenzin’s wife stressed that he couldn’t go on like this and he needed to be able to pray and cleanse his heart.

The doctors discharged Tenzin and assigned a hospice team to his care.

Jack encouraged Tenzin to talk about his prison experience, but Tenzin would not have it. He told Jack that he must learn to love again if he was to heal his heart. Tenzin stated further, it was Jack’s job to teach him how to love again.

Well, Jack wondered how he would do this, so he asked, “How can I help you to love again?”

Tenzin replied, “Sit down. Drink my tea. Eat my cookies.”

So Jack did that.

For several weeks, Jack sipped the not easy to drink Tibetan tea and munched on cookies while visting with Tenzin in the hospice room.

When Jack arrived for the scheduled visits he saw Tenzin sitting on the bed reciting his prayers from his books. Gradually the room was transformed into a beautiful religious shrine.

Two months later, Jack asked Tenzin what Tibetans do when they’re ill in the spring. Tenzin explained that they sit downwind from the flowers to be dusted with the new blossom pollen that floats on the spring breeze. To Tibetans, this new pollen is strong medicine.

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Jack began bringing flowers to the house, but soon found this an overwhelming task. A friend suggested Jack take Tenzin to a local nursery.

Jack explained the situation to the nursery manager and the following weekend Jack took Tenzin and his wife along with provisions of tea, cookies, prayer books and beads to enjoy the aroma of the fresh flowers for an afternoon at the nursery.

The next weekend they visited another nursery. The third weekend they went to another.

By the fourth week, Jack began to get calls from the previous nurseries inviting Tenzin and his wife to come again. One manager said a new shipment of Nicotiana was arriving and they had some wonderful Fuschia and Daphne. Tenzin was sure to love the scent of the Daphne. He also had some new lawn furniture they might enjoy as well.

Another nursery called to say they received some colorful wind socks so Tenzin could predict where the wind was blowing so he could sit properly downwind.

The nurseries all around were competing for Tenzin’s visits. People began to know and care about Tenzin and his wife. The nursery employees set up the lawn furniture for them and brought them fresh water for their tea. Regular customers would leave their wagons of fresh flowers near them when they shopped. A loving community grew around Tenzin and his wife.

The spring turned into summer.

At the end of the summer, Tenzin returned to the doctor for another CT scan to determine the extent of the spread of the cancer.

The doctor could find no evidence of cancer at all. He was dumbfounded. He said he couldn’t explain it.

Tenzin lifted his finger and said, “I know why the cancer has gone away. It could no longer live in a body that is filled with love.”

He explained to the doctor that when he felt all the compassion from the hospice people, from the nursery, from the employees, from the customers and from all the people who wanted to know him, he started to change inside. He felt fortunate to have had the opportunity to heal in that way.

Tenzin wanted the doctor to remember that medicine was not the only way;  sometimes compassion can cure cancer as well.

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Hope you enjoyed Jack Kornfield’s story. To listen to the full recording click here.

Source:  Sounds True dot com Producers Pick; Jack Kornfield:  A Story about the Healing Power of Compassion

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Hello Miracle Enthusiasts!

I found an article on how to create miracles that I think you will enjoy. The article is originally titled “Develop a Miracle Thinking Mindset” and was published on blog.dreamtool.org.

I contacted the author, Randy Peyser who gave me permission to reprint the article for you. Without further ado, please read Randy’s article below.

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Kathleen Ronald makes no sales calls to attract clients, yet her phone rings off the hook and she speaks before thousands of people every year.

Guitarist, Steven Walters, was given 24 hours to live. Fourteen years later, he still shows no signs of leukemia.

A fire, which consumed 500,000 acres, swept across Ronnie Chittim’s property in Oregon. While everything in every direction burnt to the ground, Ronnie’s home remained untouched.

Each of these people was looking for a miracle and each achieved it.

In the pursuit of your dream, do you ever notice how sometimes you have to work hard or struggle, while other times, things seem to flow more easily? Often, when you desire something, like more business, a relationship, greater abundance, or good health, you might take the necessary action steps, throw in a few prayers for good measure, then wait for your miracle to unfold.

But if your desired outcome doesn’t appear, you may feel so frustrated or stuck that you might even begin to wonder if you’re going to have to spend the rest of your life making nests out of pencil shavings. Hold on, there’s hope!

Obviously, people like Steven, Ronnie and Kathleen did something that enabled them to create their goals. I call people like Steven, Ronnie and Kathleen, “Miracle Thinkers.”

“Miracle Thinking” is about developing the kind of mindset that leads to the growing of miracles in your life. If you want to create your dream, please consider becoming a Miracle Thinker.

Being a Miracle Thinker does not necessarily mean you have to have it together all the time. We’re human. We react, overreact, slump, despair, panic or feel stuck. We get depressed, feel fragile, lose it and sometimes feel lost.

However, being a Miracle Thinker means that, sooner or later, we remember that we can make new choices. We choose peace, and we keep on going in the direction of our dreams.

If you would like some quick steps to start developing a Miracle Thinking mindset for yourself, try some of these on for size:

• Step into and live your truth.

• Express yourself without censoring yourself.

• Make choices and take actions that lead to the cultivation of a miracle mindset.

• Be tactful, but choose to never withhold anything from anyone for any length of time.

• Make phone calls and do follow-ups.

• Let go of the victim stance.

• Step away from that which is not for your Highest Good.

• Say ‘yes’ to life more often than you say ‘no.’

• Move with the flow.

As you develop your ability as a Miracle Thinker, you might notice results immediately. But if it’s taking forever to create your dream: 1) either you are not clearly aligned with your goal and a part of you fears the achievement of it; 2) your goal isn’t for your Highest Good; 3) the timing isn’t right; 4) or you might be going through what I call, “W-A-I-T Training,” in which case there are more things for you to learn before you can have your dream.

If this is a timing issue, there are usually people or resources you need which aren’t in place yet. Divine Right Timing always trumps our own sense of timing. When no doors seem to open, think of this time as the ‘Ripening Time.’ Even if you are already a deep person, it’s guaranteed that you are being deepened even more by the Divine Source that created you. The trick is to maintain your Miracle Mindset and keep staying the course, regardless.

Randy Peyser is author of the book, The Power of Miracle Thinking. Please visit Randy’s website at www.miraclethinking.com.

Hope you enjoy! Feel free to leave a comment, suggestion or question.

Do you long for a miracle to occur in your life? Are you tired of feeling like life is an uphill battle? Do you want to feel happy and free from struggle?

Miracles are possible. Life can feel easy. You can be happy.

Lester Levenson did it. Anita Moorjani did it. Many, many others did it. And — you can do it too! I’m a firm believer in that.

It seems that societal systems tend to make and keep us small and dependent. I don’t know how or when it got that way, but it did.

Unfortunately, it’s not going to get any better. We cannot continue to expect societal systems to have the answers to all our problems. Sometimes, we need to find our own solutions.

Lester Levenson found his own solution after the doctor’s gave up on him. If you haven’t yet read, The Miracle of Lester Levenson, I highly recommend it. (Click on title to read it)

In 1952, at the age of 42, Lester suffered a severe coronary attack. The doctor’s sent him home from the hospital telling him there was nothing they could do and advised him to keep all stress off his heart lest he should have another heart attack that would kill him.

Completely devastated, Lester went home with little desire to continue living this way. Lester had to find the answer to his problem.

Lester went within his own heart. He spent weeks soul-searching. Lester found an entire life-time of ill feelings toward persons, places and situations; resentment, anger, fear, envy, selfishness.

Bit-by-bit he released all of it over a three month period. The releasing led to amazing abilities (please read The Miracle of Lester Levenson for details).

Lester experienced the state of Oneness. He experienced the essence of every living thing – Beingness and realized his Oneness with everyone and everything “because his essence was the essence of all.”

The releasing led to an end to health problems. Lester was free, happy and peaceful. He lived another forty-three years after his heart attack at age 42.

Anita Moorjani, survived death after entering a coma when her organs shut down from stage 4 lymphoma cancer. Anita’s near death experience while in the coma state showed her the Oneness state, just like Lester experienced.

Anita understood that we are all One, all part of the One consciousness,  all facets of the One Source. She saw that a life-time of fear created the cancer state.

Once Anita realized how truly magnificent we really are, her fear released immediately. She knew she was healed at that moment. Within six months, Anita’s body was completely healed of cancer. She looked the picture of vibrant health to all who saw her. Please read, The Miracle of Anita Moorjani and watch the video for the complete story.

Lester and Anita are not alone. There are countless stories I’ve come across all pointing to the same message. (Eventually, I’ll have them up on the blog.)

Releasing all negativity and filling ourselves up with love and compassion creates miracles.

Sounds simple enough, right? Well. I don’t know about you, but when it comes to me and making a change in my life, I need a mentor. Not just any mentor. I want a mentor who achieved attainment. I believe in going to the source.

Anita is helping people through her book, Dying to be Me, interviews and online courses.

Unfortunately, Lester passed on in 1994, but I’m happy to find Stephen Seretan, a personal friend and student of Lester Levenson for 11 years. Stephen teaches Lester’s method for releasing negativity, called the K.I.S.S. Releasing System. K.I.S.S. is acronym for “Keep it Simple Sweetheart”, Lester’s favorite saying.

The K.I.S.S. Releasing System is exactly what Lester taught. You can email Stephen with any questions you may have. SedonaMethodKiss [at] yahoo [dot] com.

Stephen also told me that he has a few rare typed copies of Lester’s book, “No Attachments, No Aversions” with Lester’s margin notes in his own hand. Stephen said it’s like being there with him.

To see his inner ideas about being free in the world right there on the paper in front of you is an amazing read. Fascinating, in fact.

These copies are selling for $49. However, they aren’t shown on the website. You’ll have to email Stephen if you’re interested in receiving a copy.

There is plenty of no charge information available from both Anita and Lester; however, if you feel that you need more, I recommend investigating the books and programs.

I wish to see miracles abound. I wish to see an end to struggle and despair. And so I share my discoveries with you in love.

Blessings to all.

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If you thought Lilou’s first video interview with Anita Moorjani was profound, you will love the new one.

In an August 2011 interview,  Anita shares her incredible near-death experience and healing from stage four B lymphoma cancer. I wrote about it in a post titled, The Miracle of Anita Moorjani, (click title to read) and posted a link to Lilou’s video.  If you haven’t checked it out yet, I highly recommend it. It’ll blow your socks off (it did mine).

I love Anita’s message and that’s why I am very excited to share with you Lilou’s second video interview with Anita.

Below you will find a summary of Anita’s message. I’ve posted a link to the complete video interview at the end of this post.

Lessons from Anita’s near-death experience and subsequent rapid healing miracle:

• “Nearly dying taught me how to live. Now, I live my life to the fullest.
• I learned what caused the cancer.”

In 2002, Anita was diagnosed with lymphoma cancer.

In 2006, the disease reached stage four B, Anita’s organs shut down and she went into a coma.

While in the coma, Anita transitioned into another realm where she experienced many insights and felt the presence of loving beings including her father and best friend who had previously passed.

She experienced a state of incredible clarity. Anita saw the sum total of every thought, decision, and action she had that brought her to deaths door and she could see why she was there. Summed up in a word, Anita said it would be “fear”.

“I feared everything; not being good enough, displeasing people, not meeting others expectations, being a people pleaser, not being spiritual enough, death, the after-life, cancer, chemotherapy, things that I believed caused cancer, just about everything.”

Anita’s advice to people who experience symptoms of illness and disease:

• Follow your gut feeling – an overload of information causes fear and confusion. There is always conflicting information to anything you research.
• Don’t fight your illness as if it’s a battle – embrace it, love where you are now, listen to what it’s trying to tell you, identify the gifts it’s brought you and work with it, research it from the point of love, not fear.
•  ”Only when you approach your health challenges from the point of view of love can you actually overcome the fear.”
• Take the viewpoint, this is my body communicating to me. It has a message for me even if I don’t know what that message is right now. I’m going to love my illness. I’m going to work with my illness and I’m going to look for what can make me feel better and bring me joy.
• Don’t fight your own body.
• Don’t obsess over your illness. In fact, don’t obsess over anything. Whether we obsess over finances, health or relationships, we make every day about battling that situation. All that does is create more fear and makes us feel more lost.

Anita’s near-death experience taught her that it’s not just about positive thinking, it’s more about being yourself and loving yourself regardless of what you’re going through. That’s more important than thinking positive thoughts.

“No matter where you are in life, the first priority is to learn to love yourself.”

• Write on a sheet of paper all the things you love about yourself, everything that’s amazing, all your positive qualities. Add to it every day.

Most people have no trouble filling a page or two or three with all the things they wish to improve about themselves, but when it comes to things we love about ourselves we’re stuck.

• “Ask yourself; am I being myself, am I begin authentic, am I allowing myself to express who I am or am I constantly processing and being who I think other people want me to be. Am I constantly reacting or acting because I want the correct reactions from other people? Am I being this person because I want to be accepted or am I being this person because this is who I am?”

In the clarity of the near-death experience Anita discovered:

“What I understood is that this was just my own energy turned against me; but because I had always turned myself against me. It was a reflection of my own beliefs about myself. It’s not about positive thinking per se. Yes positive thinking helped, but you have to get to a place where you feel positive not just plaster over what you’re feeling because what happened is that I was beating myself up for not thinking more positively.”

We judge ourselves. We feel we have to suppress who we are to be someone else. We say in our minds, I’m not spiritual enough, I’m not enough of this, I’m not enough of that, I’m not enough….

Anita’s recommendations for family and loved ones:

• If the loved on is in a coma state, be aware they can hear you, not only people in the room, but beyond the room as well. They can hear and sense what the loved ones are feeling and going through.
• Bring comfort to the person in the coma. If they want to move on, give them space and permission to do so.
• Very sick loved ones need to know they are loved unconditionally and if you’re caring for the sick, they need to feel that everything you’re doing is not out of obligation, but because you love them.
• Whatever choice of healing they choose, support them. Do not tell them they made the wrong choice, support them no matter what. Not supporting them can create a lot of fear or will possibly lead to them cutting you out of their life.
• Help them to feel and visualize that their choice of treatment is actually healing them. They really need to feel it, they need to believe it. They need to feel better whatever it is, whatever treatment is being digested or ingested. They need to feel that every cell in their body is rejuvenating. It doesn’t matter what it is; chemo, radiation, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, etc. etc.
• They need to be surrounded by people who are going to make them feel that they are healing.

Anita’s changed view of the world

Reality is very different now. Prior to the NDE, life was like a race against time, full of pursuits and competition. Since the NDE, Anita sees the illusion in the “race against time”. She saw that time is not linear, everything exists simultaneously and if we can be still we can fall into a completely different reality.

You can grasp a completely different point in time if your state is in a more relaxed state rather than a controlled state, like fear. In fear, like the warehouse-torchlight analogy in Anita’s book, Dying To Be Me, we’re controlling where we want the beam to shine. If we can relax and diffuse our focus, all the possibilities come into our reach and it just depends which one we allow into our life.

It’s very hard to think yourself out of fear. It’s better to distract yourself from the fear state with something that brings you into a state of joy, whether it’s music, art, nature, mediation, exercise, reading or whatever.

In a diffused state we are open. There is room for ambiguity. We don’t know what’s going to happen next, but we’re open to whatever it is.

Follow your joy and amazing possibilities will come to you. This is so important and we don’t follow our joy enough. We do what we think we should or what we have to do, rather than what our heart tells us. We don’t do what makes our heart sing.

Guru’s

You are your own Guru. That’s why it is so important to love yourself and know that your answers are within. Anita doesn’t have answers for us. Anita shares her experience only in the hope that it helps. No body is your Guru. Teachers will appear through life, but no body is more superior than another. Don’t Guru-ize anyone. (Lester Levenson teaches this also).

Whatever information you get should make you feel free and liberated. If it makes you feel worse about yourself, don’t follow it or the person who gave it to you.

Anita states, I would rather you not follow anything I say if it makes you fearful. The whole idea is not about feeling fearful.

Real love starts with loving ourselves. We are our own Guru.

Please watch the video interview. There is much more information in it than what I’ve included in the summary.

Don’t miss – Dying to be Me – A Miracle Mama Book Review

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The Miracle of Anita Moorjani

Dying To Be Me – Hardcover book from Hay House Inc.

Again, please accept my sincere thanks for visiting, reading and helping to share inspiring, uplifting content to help us navigate through this journey we call living a life.

I feel blessed to have an audience with whom to share my passions.

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Please remember that this site provides information for educational and recreational purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice of any kind. Always consult a health-care professional.

This post is for all Lester Levenson fans and for those who want to learn how to achieve freedom from the suffering of life’s burdens and experience true peace and happiness.

Last year on this blog, I shared Lester’s amazing journey from serious illness to complete health, love and happiness in a post titled, The Miracle of Lester Levenson (click on title to read).

Completely enamored by Lester’s story and personal experience, I read everything I could find about him and watched every video that was available on YouTube. Unfortunately, some of those videos have since been taken down.

To me, Lester is the real deal; a man who through direct personal experience changed his perception and experience of the world by lifting his thoughts and feelings to new heights rising above the mundane to experience the miraculous.

In amazement, I wondered what it would be like to know Lester and I imagined being in his company and listening to his talks. I wondered what it was like for serious students as recipients of Lester’s wisdom.

You can probably imagine my giddy delight when a student of Lester’s, Stephen Seretan, teacher of Lester’s K.I.S.S. Release Technique, left a comment for us here on the blog.

 “I was a student and close friend of Lester’s for 11 years. I wrote a book about our talks called, LESTER AND ME, MY UNFORGETTABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICAN MASTER, LESTER LEVENSON. I can answer any questions you have.”

And so it is with great honor that I provide for you a review of Stephen Seretan’s 63-page book, Lester and Me.

The story, Lester and Me is enthralling as Seretan weaves teachings from Lester into his own personal narrative about struggle and unhappiness as a youth in his twenties, the disappointments in the world of show-biz and the spiritual quest that led him to meet Lester in 1983.

Seretan describes his feelings upon meeting Lester as “a long lost friend” and an answer to his prayers. He lovingly paints a portrait of a most humble, gentle and unassuming man who he refers to as the American Master.

The book is chock-full of anecdotes and helpful real-life illustrations that will assist students of Lester’s K.I.S.S. Release Technique as taught by Seretan. One read through is not enough to gain the full benefit of Lester’s wisdom as told to Seretan throughout his long chats with Lester over eleven years.

One of the messages that stood out the most for me is that Lester wanted people to do the work themselves, as he did. No one can free you, but you. Lester can point the way, but it is up to the individual to do the work to free themselves. Only then will the benefits be experienced.

This is why Lester unselfishly gave freely of his time to help his students through sharing his experience, pointing the way and encouraging his students to spread the word.  Thankfully, Stephen Seretan is continuing to share Lester’s message by teaching Lester’s K.I.S.S. Release Technique and sharing his conversations with Lester in his book.

A couple of quotes from Lester and Me that I love are;

“He discovered that at our core Beingness, we are whole, perfect, and can instantly create anything we choose if not encumbered by our self imposed limitations. After he went free, he demonstrated this over and over to himself with large and small things.”

Seretan asked Lester;

““Do you ever have any obstacles when you are creating things?” I inquired, hoping I would hear a little bit of a kindred spirit in this tedious process.
“Absolutely none,” he fired back.”

After reading the preceding statement, it occurred to me that an obstacle is only an obstacle when we agree with the thought that something is an obstacle, otherwise there are no obstacles. We create our own reality.

“When we release these programs as Lester’s method teaches us, we find amazingly that the material world we so desperately are trying to control just opens for us, and gives us what we seek; no stress or strain necessary.”

In the past year, I’ve found truth in this statement. As I have let go of all striving, grasping and need to control, I find things are coming to me effortlessly. Opportunities show up. People show up. Situations show up. Life is an adventure unfolding one day at a time.

My review of Seretan’s book would not be complete if I did not state that some who read Lester and Me may take exception to some of the material presented. I think this is a normal reaction and I am of the mind that when I read something, I take what I like and leave the rest.

In my mind, Stephen Seretan’s book, Lester and Me, holds the secrets to true peace and happiness as experienced by the American Master, Lester Levenson.

If you want to get up close and personal to an American Master to learn how he achieved freedom from suffering to experience true peace and happiness, I highly recommend Stephen Seretan’s book, Lester and Me (also available in Spanish).

As always, thanks for reading and commenting. I appreciate your time and hope you enjoy visiting this site as much as I enjoy providing information and resources.

All quotes used with permission by the author.

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Please remember that this site provides information for educational and recreational purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice of any kind. Always consult a health-care professional.