Shifting Stories - Imagination Mastery: Chapter Three

09/01/20 • 11 min

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. I choose, therefore I am. —Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe I wanted to change the world. But I found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. —Aldous Huxley We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.—John F. Kennedy At the end of each week, I have included a chance to do an I Choose sheet. If you feel no resistance at all to what you have discovered you want, then you could skip this step. However, that is not likely, is it? It is our resistance that keeps us stuck. Sometimes that resistance is so apparent we are well aware of it. Other times, it hides in the shadows, and we only know it’s there because of the symptoms of lethargy, anger, and discouragement, to name a few. I could spend a long time talking about resistance, but instead let me send you to Steven Pressfield’s book, The War Of Art. Although he is talking about resistance in terms of an artist, it applies to every one of us, all the time. So, let’s assume that you have some resistance to living a better life, whether it is buried or noticeable. Doing this extremely simple-to-do I Choose exercise works what others might call miracles. One of those miracles happened to me many years ago. My husband had left and I had no idea that was going to happen. I came home from a trip and he was gone. I had no idea what to do. All my get up and go, had got up and left, too. I was struggling to pay bills, feed my family, and support a home that I had just purchased. I loved that house. I can still walk through it in my mind and tell you everything that was there because I designed the whole thing to be exactly how I wanted it to be. I knew that I needed to sell it because I couldn’t afford the payments, but I resisted that idea until one day my oldest daughter, who was in her last year of high school said, “Mom. Sell the house. You have no other choice.” I knew she was right. I had to do it. So I put into practice all the things that we are talking about in this book. 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 - Shatterskin - Chapters Seven and Eight

A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: “Open up, Hannah,” Beru urged me as we ran. “Accept the help that is being offered to you. Breathe it in.” I was panting so hard I had no breath to ask her what she meant by help. I was nearing my last ounce of energy, and neither Beru nor Ruta seemed tired at all. They definitely knew something I didn’t know. “You don’t know what I am talking about?” Beru asked. Up ahead I heard Ruta snort in derision. He was right. I was more than useless. I shook my head. No, I didn’t know what they were talking about. “Feel it, Hannah, just as you did before you came here. Feel the forest. Feel the ground beneath your feet. Feel what they have to give you. Reach out. Let them in.” Then Beru, sweet little Beru with the beautiful face, yelled at me, “Do it. Do it now!” I gasped in surprise and felt a bolt of energy rush in. I was no longer running on my own. I was moving with the forest, not through it. I don’t know how long we ran. I lost all sense of time and surroundings. The forest around me blurred into a tunnel of green that flowed back the way we had come. In front of me, I could see Ruta moving, no, gliding, almost as if he wasn’t moving his legs at all. Behind me, I could feel Beru’s eyes effortlessly pushing me forward. There was no need for her to run forward and back to check on me. The three of us moved as one. It was glorious. I wanted it to last forever. How much time passed I don’t know, and although I had no idea where we were, I could tell that we were moving upward. Eventually, the world slowed down as we stopped running and began to walk instead. We were on a path. Not one created by Ruta moving through the woods, clearing the way. This path was like many of the trails my dad and I used to hike together in the mountains near our home. If I wasn’t walking with Ruta and Beru, I might have thought I was home again. That notion was blasted from my mind as we crested a hill, and I saw what appeared to be a castle. Not what I expected at all. On the other hand, what was I expecting? If I was truthful with myself, I was hoping we were going to see Suzanne’s people, the Forest Circle, and I said as much to Ruta and Beru. “Shh...,” hissed Ruta. “Are you crazy?” At first, I was dumbstruck to hear Ruta say more than one word. Maybe he didn’t often talk because his voice did not match his appearance. Unless he was hollow, because that’s what he sounded like: a hollow stump. When his block face darkened, I realized he could probably read my mind, and I was in trouble. What had happened to me? I didn’t usually think things like that about people. Or did I and I hadn’t noticed? My whole world was flipping upside down. Read Shatterskin, the first book in The Return To Erda , 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 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.