Out of sight, out of mind, right? Luckily some people still have the welfare of Haiti in clear sight.

I have been contacted by a friend of mine to help promote a documentary film he is producing about helping Haiti re-build itself. Seems like a great cause to get behind.

Hands That Feed- Video Pitch from Pangea Films on Vimeo.

Hands That Feed is a documentary film exploring the agricultural collapse in Haiti, its role in the post-earthquake food crisis, and the emerging grassroots development models that seek to restore Haiti’s food supply and environment.

Hands That feed is currently fundraising, and needs your support, and help in spreading the word.

please visit: HandsThatFeed.com

My friend and Purpose Coach Michelle L. Casto has spent the better part of two decades studying what it takes to know one’s purpose and step on the path to that purpose with both feet… not someday, TODAY.

Please take my lead and go take her “Soul Purpose Assessment”, this FREE short video exercise will help you identify where YOU are on your path of purpose.

This exercise may only be up for a short time so go now.

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Kids Who See Ghosts

Help to Guide Them Through Fear

If you like to help kids, then you’ll enjoy this newest, cutting edge information. I want to share this particular book, Kids Who See Ghosts, because it is already lighting new fires of knowledge and sparking conversations around the globe.  Reading it, you’ll understand how children feel and experience their worlds of imaginary friends, ghosts or spirits.  And you’ll learn how to soothe their fears, how to explore other realms, and help kids be resilient when facing the unknown.

The award-winning author of Raising Intuitive Children, and Mom’s Choice Awards Lightworker of 2008, Dr. Caron Goode interviewed parents, educators, psychologists, a sensei, a skeptic, and psychics to present a well-rounded view of the kids-who-see-ghosts phenomenon. This trend seems to be increasing, which means parents need this book now!

Goode suggests you believe in your children, whether or not you believe in ghosts or spirits. Empowering kids is the goal, helping them to move through their fears and have more strength.

To empower kids and support this work, I am asking that you buy this book, along with me, on Tuesday, June 8^th, 

Kids Who See Ghosts: How to Guide Them Through Fear

Buying on June 8^th makes you  eligible to receive several thousand dollars worth of bonus gifts including free offers by acclaimed theater and acting star Shirley McClaine and more free bonuses from Dr. Caron Goode.

Today, our discussion is on the developing brain of younger children and their imaginary playmates.

What is the relationship among brain waves, what children see, and ghosts? Why do young children see things that grown-ups don’t see? By interacting with the environment, a child’s brain activates and develops only the potential networks that match or prove to be useful in the environment.

In the early years, between ages two to six, the brain has not distilled enough to distinguish between conception/perception that is inner generated and outer generated. It is usually during this time that young children experience and develop relationships with imaginary playmates and what we might call ghosts.

Between ages seven and eleven, the brain comes to a different order, and the dreamy influence of early childhood diminishes in most children. At age eleven, the brain flushes and dissolves the unused potential neural networks, fixing the brain in its current relationship with the environment. This effectively prevents any perception experience that is not in sync with the child’s or family’s environment/model/culture. Thus, a lot of children may no longer see ghosts, energy forms, or spirits after puberty.

Then at ages eleven to fourteen, the brain goes through this big cleansing process and physically dissolves the unmyelinated potential neural connections that were available in the early brain. We either use it or lose it, and by age eleven, nature assumes that you are going to be using everything that the environment calls for you to use. It says, “We don’t need this extra stuff. Let’s clean house and wash it away.” At that point, most people stop “seeing.”

If the child sees a form or something that the adult doesn’t see, they quickly learn to screen that out or hide it, because that’s not normal in their parents’ environment. The ghost is not part of what the culture reflects; it’s not part of the bonded experience.

So we have these different brain frequencies as the brain goes through its stages of growth and development; it changes and adds higher frequencies or different frequencies to its brain-wave patterns, which correspond to states of perception.

It is perfectly normal for children to have ghosts and\or imaginary playmates in the early years, as late as age eight. Surveys estimate that 65% of all children have imaginary playmates during the first eight years of life. These children develop better social and communication skills than their peers, and their heightened creativity and imagination are now recognized as healthy and normal.

Seeing a ghost or imaginary playmates might be a way a child copes with stressors in their lives. Lucy was eight when her parents divorced, which caused financial setbacks for her mother and father. Both of Lucy’s parents lived in apartments, and she went back and forth between the two homes. Sleeping on her dad’s couch when she visited him on weekends was her normal routine.

One night, Lucy woke up when she felt her favorite quilt being tugged. She opened her eyes and saw a young girl pulling the quilt off of her toes. Lucy wasn’t frightened, only curious. She closed her eyes again, thinking she was dreaming and sleepy. If the girl were still there when she opened her eyes, she would be her friend. She opened her eyes and—voila!— the girl was still there.

The ghost returned with Lucy to her mom’s apartment, and Lucy spoke with her friend, sometimes when she was alone in her room or sometimes before she slept at night. Lucy told her mom about her friend and said they had been conversing for about a year.

Did something bring the ghost to Lucy? Or did Lucy conjure up her new friend via her imagination, in response to the loneliness and stress she felt after her parents’ divorce?

In Kids Who See Ghosts, you’ll read several times that the professionals and psychics who work with children who see and have imaginary playmates ask parents to

1. Listen to their children.

2. Don’t dismiss them or put them down.

3. Ask questions.

4.Observe how the child interacts with the spirit, and under- stand any life circumstances that might be influencing the child’s perceptions.

Get Kids Who See Ghosts: How to Guide Them Through Fear, Today!

When parents have the information they need, they feel more confident in helping a child overcome fear and put any event into perspective. Those four steps help the child stay connected to the parent’s heart and allow him or her the time and opportunity for further exploration and understanding. Don’t think that you can shield children from fear or feel that you have to take care of all their fears. Kids learn resilience just like parents learned it by gaining life experience with confidence in knowing mom or dad support them.

If you enjoyed this article about imaginary playmates, please visit the next spot for the sixth day of the tour, http://yvonneperry.blogspot.com, where Dr. Goode speaks about the writing process for Kids Who See Ghosts.

Most impressively, the book took the Number-1 slot in Canadian spirituality sales (click to see a screen shot), and the #3 slot in self-help, sharing the very same page on Amazon with top-selling spirituality titles such as Don Miguel Ruiz’s Four Agreements, Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love. At one point, Patrick and Eckhart were dancing back and forth in the top 5 spots on the Canadian list, which is interesting because so many people have compared these two writers even before the book was released. In the US, it soared to the top of the Kindle spiritual self-help titles, reaching as high as Number 2. We’re waiting to see the paperback join it in these ranks.

Not too shabby for a first day, don’t you think?

The Awakened Wisdom launch continues today and tomorrow and, in celebration of its official release, Patrick Ryan and a group of his colleagues, including authors, coaches, entrepreneurs and spiritual teachers are giving away over 40 exceptional personal development and spiritual growth gifts when you purchase a copy the book during the launch.

One of these gifts is an unprecedented 2-session “Awakened Wisdom Virtual Experience”, in which author Patrick Ryan will take participants on a journey through the “8 States of an Awakened Life” via webcast in May. This is a rare opportunity to learn directly from a world-renowned spiritual teacher—and now top-selling spirituality author.

I myself am offering a Panic Attack Elimination Made Easy Ecourse.

To pick up your copy of the Awakened Wisdom, get all those free gifts, and sign up for this very special event, which is open ONLY to those who purchase the book this week, go to:

http://www.awakenedwisdom.com/Public/Amazon/BookLaunch/index.cfm

Make sure you do this as soon as possible, as the launch ends this Thursday, April 22.

Thanks for your support in helping this rising new star in the spiritual author universe shine so brightly! I wish ALL of you reading this a future where YOU are shining even more brightly.

A Good State of Doing

Spring is finally in the air.

This is the time of year for new beginnings. It’s the perfect time to explore new things, and to embark on a journey of personal awakening and expansion. One way I’ve been getting into this theme of reawakening is by reading excerpts from a brand new book by author Patrick Ryan called “Awakened Wisdom – A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance.”

Today, I wanted to share something about that book with you, and to tell you about how I, along with dozens of others, am celebrating the release of this very special book on April 20th.

Just to tell you a bit of background, I first was introduced to Patrick through Lynn Serafinn and then found out that Patrick was one of my wife’s instructors when she took her coaching training. She liked him and I felt very good about his message.

Over the past three decades, Patrick, an executive coach and a former Buddhist monk, has been on a spiritual quest that eventually led him to devise a system of teachings he calls “Awakened Wisdom Experiences” (AWE). For years he taught this system worldwide at his workshops of the same name. Now, at long last, he has consolidated the teachings of Awakened Wisdom Experiences into a book, appropriately entitled, “Awakened Wisdom – A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance.” This means his unique spiritual teachings can now reach a much wider audience around the globe. You can read more about the book here:

http://www.awakenedwisdom.com/Public/Amazon/booklaunch/index.cfm

The book Awakened Wisdom is written in two sections. The first is a deeply spiritual exploration on what it means to be human. The second section explores what Patrick calls “Eight States of an Awakened Life”. These eight states help you tap into your divine wisdom to create more of the life you want. Here are the eight states from Patrick’s book:

1) A Good State of Understanding

2) A Good State of Intention

3) A Good State of Words

4) A Good State of Being

5) A Good State of Purpose

6) A Good State of Effort

7) A Good State of Practice

A Good State of Doing

Patrick explains each of these eight states in great detail, and gives you examples of how to apply them in your life, from reflective affirmations, to practical exercises, to learning how to converse with your “Divine Essence”.

What is so nice about this book is that is both inspirational and practical. Most books on the market succeed in being one or the other, but rarely do you find one that is balanced in both respects.

“Awakened Wisdom – A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance” comes out on Amazon on April 20th, 2010. To expand the giving and receiving of this wisdom I am giving away a Free 7 day Ecourse called Panic Attack Elimination Made Easy, where you will learn the causes and corrections for anxiety, to everyone who buys Patrick’s wonderful book within the first 24 hours of its release.

AND… In addition to my gift, there are over 40 other wonderful gifts being offered by mind-body-spirit teachers, authors, coaches and healers from around the planet when you purchase Awakened Wisdom – A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance on April 20th. All of these gifts were selected to help you on your journey of reawakening this spring. Gifts include e-courses, eBooks, audio meditations, audio books, photo-journals, videos, free telecourses, and too many other things to mention. Have a look at the gift page HERE and you can read all about them.

AND… Patrick is giving away an EXTRA special gift of his own:

An Awakened Wisdom VIRTUAL Experience!

When you buy the book, you will be given free admission to this special 2-day live “virtual” event, taking place on May 5th and 6th, 2010. On that event, Patrick will personally guide you through the Eight States of an Awakened Life. If you cannot make the live event, it will be recorded, but it will be available only to those who buy the book on April 20th.

The AWAKENED WISDOM VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE is a NEVER before offered event. Imagine being able to learn the wisdom and teachings of a book like this directly from the author, while you follow along in your own copy of the book. If you’re on the live call, you will even be given the opportunity to ask Patrick your own questions.

To find out how you can buy this book on April 20th,

claim your free admission to the Awakened Wisdom Virtual Experience,

and receive over 40 other gifts, just go to:

http://www.awakenedwisdom.com/Public/Amazon/booklaunch/index.cfm

When you go to that page, be sure you enter your email address in the form, and Patrick will send you a “launch reminder” to make sure you don’t miss the April 20th date. That way you can ensure you will be able to take advantage of all those great gifts AND enjoy Patrick’s great new book, Awakened Wisdom – A Guide To Reclaiming Your Brilliance.

To me, it looks like a whole package that can help you reawaken your brilliant Self this spring! I hope you’ll be joining me in the journey.

In the past the belief about spirituality was that you had to let go of your physical, or practical existence and move to an ashram in the mountains to relinquish all ties with the earth. Next came organized religion which dictated that you could only find your spiritual self within the confines of the church walls. Now we are entering the age of Aquarius and that means Practical Spirituality will be at the forefront of everyone’s mind.

Probably the first thing to accept with practical spirituality is that you, as a person living on this earth, have a spirit. Not only are you a physical being, even though you may be acutely aware of this, you are also a spiritual being. It has been written that we are all spiritual beings having a human experience. I would agree with this based on my own experiences with communicating with the spirit world. I attempt to bring this awareness of practical spirituality to the world through my radio show.

Listen to my radio show, Practical Spirituality, every Monday evening at 7 PM Pacific time on http://www.spiritquestradio.com

You see, practical spirituality means paying attention to what your spirit needs and applying those spiritual principals in your physical world. No longer will people look outside of themselves for the answers to their most pressing questions about personal growth. We as people have been taken too many times by the wrongdoers in our society and practical spirituality is here to teach us to listen to the the wisdom of our soul.

Understand that you possess all the answers to every question you may have deep within your psyche and there are practical steps you can take to access them. One of the most overlooked components of practical spirituality is in paying close attention to what your dreams are telling  you. I recall talking with many people that had a recurring dream that disturbed them, and it would not go away until they acted upon the wisdom put forward. Your dreams are not the only way practical spirituality will play out in your life.

Ever had an intuitive sense of something about to occur? Your intuition is how your spirit communicates with your physical body below the level of conscious control. I have heard from people who ignored their intuition only to find that they put themselves in harms way and suffered severe violation to their being. Now, practical spirituality states that you would always listen to your intuition and abide by the wisdom it offers to you physically.

The bottom line is that your spiritual awareness will make your physical life so much easier that all the problems you are going through right now will seem insignificant when you practice practical spirituality. I have been immersed in the spirit world for a major portion of my life and now wish to pass this knowledge on to you. Practical Spirituality is the subject I am most passionate about and look forward to sharing with you the benefits of listening to your spirit.

Leave me a comment to tell me how listening to your spirit has helped you or ask me a question about Practical Spirituality.