Shifting Stories: Imagination Mastery: Chapter Four

09/15/20 • 7 min

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. Your imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. —Albert Einstein Now that you have the basic tools, are you ready to get started? Each week has a different focus, but the imagination exercises each day will remain mostly the same. Try not to get behind, but if you do, it’s okay. This is not a race. The turtle always wins because it stays focused. If you get your rational mind out of the way when you start these exercises, you can complete each day’s assignment within five to ten minutes. Don’t worry. Let go. Imagine. Be like the White Queen! “I can’t believe that!” said Alice. “Can’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.” Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Every day we are going to be like the White Queen. She was quite the Imagination Master, wasn’t she? She was continuously trying to get Alice to become an Imagination Master, too. In this passage from Alice In Wonderland, the White Queen gives Alice a task. Imagine six impossible things before breakfast. So we are going to follow her advice but do it differently. We are going to imagine seven impossible things every day for the next seven weeks. Except, it doesn’t have to be before breakfast, or even all at one time. You can fill out your daily imagination forms as you go through your day, or all at once. Whichever way works best for you. Personally, I like to sit down first thing in the morning and write out everything that comes to mind. When I allow my thoughts to flow, not judge them, I can complete this assignment within five minutes. Perhaps it will take you longer at first, but pay attention. Is that part of yourself being like Alice and saying, “I can’t believe that.” Remember we are not trying to be rational or use our intelligence, we are imagining! By the way, here’s how you can tell if you are in your rational mind as you do this. When what you are writing doesn’t feel impossible. Or it feels as if everything you imagine is stupid. Or silly. Or a waste of time. Come on, let go. Keep listening and reading ... Find the Imagination Mastery audio and book everywhere you buy books or audio! Imagination Mastery Now available WHEREVER you want to buy it. Click to find Imagination Mastery at your favorite Book Store

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Shifting Stories - Discovered - Chapters One and Two

An evil tyrant. A rebellious uprising. Will her destiny prevent total destruction... or send everyone to their doom? Her gift of shapeshifting may have disappeared, but Meg Porta won’t let her new home perish. Clinging to a slender thread of hope, she’s forced to fulfill her mysterious part in an ancient prophecy. But when the three leaders of a dark religion each make violent plays for ultimate power, Meg and her allies are plunged into a race to destroy the source of their magic. Sailing hard from the rebel islands to be the first to reach the remote mountain location, Meg can’t shake the feeling she’s about to repeat a terrible mistake. But with a powerful genius leading an army of undead warrior monks intent on taking her down, she’ll have to seize her foretold place in history or face total obliteration. Will Meg claim her fated role and save the world from falling to malevolent tyranny? Discovered is the third book in the fast-paced Chronicles of Thamon fantasy series. If you like daring heroines, twisted tyrants, and selfless sacrifice, then you’ll love Beca Lewis’s gripping tale Read Discovered, the third book in The Chronicles of Thamon , and fall in love with these characters that choose friendship, goodness, and faith in each other in order to defeat evil. READ and LISTEN anywhere you buy your books and audio.

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Shifting Stories - Discovered: Chapters Three and Four

While the Soleis traveled as slowly as possible, the Eos was moving as quickly as it could. So fast sometimes, Meg wished that it would slow down. Like Stryker, she didn’t like ships either, and for many of the same reasons. Mostly, she hated the rocking and rolling. No matter what she did, she constantly felt sick. Everyone tried to help. But nothing they suggested worked for her. Finally, after watching Meg suffer and grow weaker each day, Tarek gave her permission to transform into a raven and fly along with them. Sometimes Wren and Silke joined her, and watching them circle and swoop above the ship made everyone feel better. It felt so glorious that Meg almost didn’t care that turning into a raven was the only thing she could shapeshift into now. And at night, and in the dark, she couldn’t do anything at all. She was no longer the shapeshifter that she had once been. Now she wasn’t sure what she was. But at least it seemed as if she was useful. Although she had been told what happened on Lopel, she had no memory of it. The last thing she remembered was standing with the rest of the rebels, supporting the Mages. They were cloaking every person on the Islands to hide them from the Warrior Monks and Sawdi. The next thing she knew, she found herself lying on a cot in the main room, covered in blankets, and surrounded by her friends. The story they told was hard to believe. She had been enveloped in fire. Karn pushed her into the circle of Mages. Then a beam of light shot out from her into the sky, turning the Warrior Monks away. Read Discovered, the third book in The Chronicles of Thamon , and fall in love with these characters that choose friendship, goodness, and faith in each other in order to defeat evil. READ and LISTEN anywhere you buy your books and audio.