I was just sent a link by a friend to this utterly inspirational video by Dr Jill Bolte Taylor and I had to share it with you. She calls it her “idea worth spreading”.
One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness …
As she progressed through the stroke, she became aware of the energy that flows through each and every one of us. She felt the full force of her connection with the Universe. She realised the enormity of the Universal joke that we are in any way separate. But she couldn’t remember how to speak, count or do any of the left-brain activities that most of us take for granted.
Her phenomenal journey of recovery inspired her to share her story – the “idea worth spreading” – around the globe. So here’s a video she’s published, explaining what happened to her and how we can all reach that state of oneness, without needing to go through what she went through.
But beware: this video, if you take the time to watch it all the way through, might just change your life.
If you have found that the Law Of Attraction / Manifesting hasn’t been producing the results you were hoping for, in “Consciousness – The New Currency” Brandon and Kevin not only explain why; they take you step by step through processes to help you clear out the blocks you didn’t even know you had. Sound interesting, perhaps? That’s why it’s our November Book Of The Month.
“Consciousness – The New Currency” has the potential to change your life – if you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and follow its suggestions.
Brandon and Kevin make it clear that the world needs a massive shift in consciousness – and the time is now. And that shift has to come from each of us personally taking resposibility for clearing out our blocks and opening up to consciousness and Grace (God / The Universe / Collective Consciousness), to lead lives that spread love, not fear; becoming who we really are.
(If those words turn you off, then this might not be the book for you!)
It’s not an easy option.
It requires you to choose to be ready to let go of excuses and beliefs that have been holding you back for years. Yet the process to release them is deeply effective and healing.
In this book, which follows on from Brandon’s best-selling books The Journey and Freedom is…, Brandon teams up with her partner Kevin, and they help you go a level deeper.
It builds on previous “Journey Work” (or “process work”, as it’s called in the book). Journey Work is about going deeply into the emotions we experience, that tell us we have hit a block in life, so we can release the block. A block is something – an experience, vow or belief – from the past that we’re usually not consciously aware of, which sabotages our best efforts to be who we really are and achieve our dreams.
Most of us try to make changes using will power or positive affirmations – or other positive thinking techniques. Yet these often don’t produce the results we wanted.
Why?
Because they set up a conflict between the conscious, thinking mind and the unconscious mind (which actually runs the show).
For example, the conscious mind’s positive affirmation says “I’m going to get that great job”, whilst the unconscious mind firmly believes that “I’m too stupid / I don’t deserve it / I’m not attractive enough.”
This is why so many of us create what we want but, at some point, sabotage it. Brandon and Kevin help the reader identify these unconscious blocks and show you, step by step, how to release them. (Aside: Bruce Lipton explains the biology behind this conscious / unconscious conflict really well in The Biology of Belief).
In “Consciousness – The New Currency” Brandon and Kevin bring us, for the first time, the processes used in their hugely powerful Manifest Abundance retreats. It’s transformational and only for those who are ready to undergo healing at a deep level, in order to liberate themselves from every limiting pattern / unconscious block that has held them back.
Throughout this book, Brandon and Kevin share their personal stories – warts and all – to help the reader understand what is really on offer to those who break free of their limitations. Between them, they share experiences that cover pretty much every block and emotion you could imagine. It’s an incredibly human book and is written with love and compassion.
If you’ve not yet come across Brandon and Kevin, though, it may challenge many of your assumptions about life. For them, concepts such as handing your life over to Grace (God / The Universe / Higher Spirit) and only living your Truth are at the core of their Being. This may be challenging for some.
Also, there is an assumption that the reader is at least vaguely familiar with the Law Of Attraction / Manifesting. If a reader is still at a point where they feel that life “happens to them” and other people can “make them angry”, then they may find this book brings up some resistance!
Is this book for you?
If you’ve read The Secret or similar books and want to understand why the techniques they teach can produce hit and miss results, then this book could clear things up for you. It explains why positive thinking isn’t enough and helps you go deeper into setting yourself free from every limitation you’ve ever picked up.
If you’re already a fan of Brandon Bays, then you’ll enjoy this. She really builds on her previous work and it’s lovely to have Kevin’s input into this book, too.
If you’re really new to all this, you might prefer to read The Journey first, although “Consciousness” is still a great place to start.
If you do choose to read “Consciousness – The New Currency”, then I hope you find it inspiring and that it helps you liberate your true potential, transforming your life.
Gregg Braden is my kind of philosopher. With a strong background in physics and engineering, he brings a rigorous, common-sense approach to the metaphysical world. This means he writes about ‘hippy stuff’ by first analysing the evidence and then presenting conclusions.
His conclusions are much the same as all the others writing about ‘hippy stuff’. But, if you’re even vaguely sceptical, then Gregg will help you weigh up the data and draw your own conclusions, rather than telling you what to believe.
We’ve been doing a straw poll, here on the How To Feel Happier sofa, to find out which book holds the key to helping us feel happier.
And the results have been interesting.
Which books make you feel happier?
They’re not all self-help books, which was a surprise. Some of them were novels and some of them were comedies.
But before we share our answers with you, we’d much rather hear what your favourite books are, when you want to feel inspired to be happier.
Which book do you reach for? And why does it do it for you?
And perhaps you’d like to join in with our virtual book club, as part of the Soul-Sized Living forum?
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