April 26, 2018 by Sam Jones Leave a Comment

You’ve been ‘flirting’ with writing a book or, you’ve already started and you’ve realised that the hardest part of getting your ‘message’ or story out into the world is the actual WRITING!

Here is what I hear from budding authors A LOT!

“Carren, I have so many ideas, I don’t know how to put it all together. There is too much to say!”

“Carren, I want to write this book so badly, but I can’t get started! It’s just too overwhelming!!”

“I’ve started my book, I’m half way through it and I’m stuck. I procrastinate and then beat myself up for procrastinating, which only makes me procrastinate more!”

“I’ve got notes that I’ve taken over the years, but how does that all gel together to make a book? It seems so disjointed”

“It’s just my story Carren, who is going to want to read it anyway?”

If you have a desire to write your book, you have everything you need to Write to Inspire!

Honestly, I know how challenging it can be to get your thoughts onto paper (or computer)…. And through all of my own writing of books, eBooks and articles, magazines and bogs, I learned all about the HUGE difference that exists between speaking and writing! What makes it more challenging is that there are no physical faces to gauge feedback, no voice tones to give meaning or emphasis and no body language to exchange energy!

It’s just you and that pen or keyboard where writing to inspire your readers requires more than just an idea…… Writing to inspire begs you to move the hearts and minds of your readers, it beckons you to create a reading experience that is memorable and an emotional journey that can transform perceptions into potential!

So what is Writing to Inspire? Well, I’m really glad you asked!

Write to Inspire is a three part support Strategy to bring your dream book into life and into the hands of the people it will impact and inspire!

Writing my own best seller and ghostwriting two self help best sellers along the three eBooks, being the founder and editor in chief for Effortless Magazine and having written thousands of published articles, blogs and transcripts has taught me through brutal experience exactly what “works” and what “flops!”

I recall having an entire book rejected by a publisher not because the idea stank, but because I was writing the same way I spoke on stage.

‘Penny’ the publisher said, “Carren, to captivate your readers, you need to write ‘for’ them and ‘to’ THEM, rather than just sharing what you known using words that don’t translate to paper with the same energy they do when spoken with tone”.

Writing to Inspire action, change minds, influence outcomes or educate seekers requires four vital elements:

* Structure and organisation of the ideas you have so that you can write using the outline as the guide keeping you on track and getting the job done faster as you stay on course

*Clarity of continuity and direction throughout the body of the text. Proper character introduction (meaning you and anyone else you mention in the book)

* Clear vision of the end game. Start a clear end point (you never know, there may be two or three books inside…Or maybe even a series!)

* Proper strategy to have the book reach the readers it will impact and inspire. (Many budding authors believe that publishers will do the marketing and promotion for them. This isn’t the case. Most publishing houses require that you do the heavy lifting to get the book marketed so that the retail and online outlets will be driven to purchase your book for re-sale.

A lot of authors go wrong for from step one thinking they will just write their story or share their take on a certain subject, industry or trend. While these are necessary attributes to any well written book, unless structure and direction are clear from the beginning, the book will loose clarity and continuity and become just another self help dust collector because the book is more about the author than it is about the reader impact and implementation.

Often authors will write with no clear vision and hope direction unfolds intuitively! While I recommend giving this a try, when it comes to writing in a way that inspires others, your intuitive riffs are better served as research notes, content ideas or powerful nuggets that set the tone of the book. Even channelled books need a balance between the spiritual and physical so the audience can embrace the message. Remember, your readers want to learn from you so be sure to write to and for them and never assume they will understand your complex or intuitive downloads. Err on the side of caution all our beautiful Angel Writers. You have powerful messages to share, and to hear them, your writing needs to speak to those less far advanced on the journey than you are.

So, how does working me work?

I offer three levels of service which DON’T INCLUDE EDITING OR PROOF READING. You will still need to engage these services if you plan to self publish.

Service Level 1

Structure and organisation of ideas.

Here, we start from scratch on your book, creating a structure of the ideas, the content, your research and any other resources you’ve used to compile your thoughts. We will create an outline for each chapter where you will then proceed to write knowing what goes where and how. Your table of contents will be clear and you’ll be perfectly positioned to begin your book proposal if you’re pursuing a publisher.

Service Level 2

Coaching and Couching of the words.

Here, we will work on making sure you’re using the right words, your text is compelling, your chapter structures make sense and provide continuity and logical sequence. I thoroughly recommend taking up Service Level 1 before embarking on the investment of Service Level 2 to minimise cost, time and re-writing.

HOWEVER, if you’re already a good way into your writing, this is service is perfect for you. We may re-write, re-visit, enquire and investigate the existing manuscript to make sure it’s AWESOME, and, it’s worth taking this step sooner rather than later in your writing project to prevent spending waaaaaay too much on editors as they attempt to correct the continuity and flow of your writing while risking loosing your ‘voice’ in their editing.

If you’re putting a book proposal to a publisher, this service level is also perfect! You will have written at least three chapters, chapter intro’s, the table of contents, your marketing strategy and platform, and you’ll be well on your way to knowing your genre and audience.

The coaching offered at this level is about couching your words, making sure you’re proposal is captivating and ensuring your chapters and chapter outlines reach into the hearts and minds of both your readers, and the publishers!!

Service Level 3

Here, I offer a full service Ghostwriting experience where together we work through the structure and have three to four check in points throughout the start of the project to ensure we are on the same wavelength. Once the structure and outline is complete, we check in another three times over the course of the project to review, change or edit any aspects of the manuscript. The project works to a strict word-count and a time frame to ensure all editing, printing and design (these are not included in the ghostwriting service but I can give you names of great operators!) deadlines are met without delay.

To learn more about Writing to Inspire, watch Carren’s recent webinar by CLICKING HERE

Dive deep into the message that drives you and give a powerful voice to the inspiration inside! Hold nothing back as you move the hearts and minds of millions!

February 18, 2018 by Sam Jones

Consider this:

You were created ….YES?

You appeared from nowhere to now-here on the day you were born through the process of conception… How does that work? Really? Anyone who has delivered a baby will agree, birth is a miracle! So… Through this life giving process, you were created. Indisputable!

Now, you and I are capable of the same life giving creativity… We are all capable of contributing to the creation of life….. (put aside for a moment the problems we are now experiencing with fertility because that is another conversation about our environment, and try to stay focused on the bigger picture that this message is directing you toward). So, to sum ourselves up, we were created, and we are able to create life!!!

So, here is a question…. If we are given the innate ability to create the miracle of life…. And it’s just a given….. we don’t have to be anything other than human or sentient being to be able to create life….. Who is to say that we are incapable of creating other miracles too? We take it for granted as we are growing up that we will be able to create life, and we just expect that it will occur, at the time of our choosing… it’s no something we have to will, or use the Law of Attraction for, it’s not a process we need to invent or create a business strategy or plan for in order for our capability to be engaged. We don’t even have to steal someone else’s ability or compete to win it!! We just KNOW without question that being human means making babies and creating new life…. Which we have already agreed is a MIRACLE!!!

Are you starting to see that there is so much more to ourselves, which is just instinctively present in each one of us but we pay it no special attention, as our miraculous ability to create life is paid no special attention?

Consider that you are a miracle….. have been created by the process of a miracle manifesting and therefore have the innate power to create other miracles, which includes the miracle of life itself!!! Goodness me, if we are capable of creating life, surely we are capable of creating money, happiness, joy and enthusiasm? These are not even miracles, but the end result of miracles….. so lets take a look at what it takes to participate in a miracle:Ascertain the area of your life that is currently in need of a Miracle

Become clear on the outcome that would have you know you have created a miracle (the baby!!)
Instead of focusing on what you are doing wrong in the equation…. Because that is wasted energy, decide on what it would take for you to create this miracle. Focusing on where we have gone wrong, fallen down or made poor choices is futile because it all exists in the past. There is very little to be gained in the creative process by analyzing where you have been. Instead, look toward the miracle and begin to make new choices that are aligned with the creation of this miracle, EVERY MOMENT. To relate this process to creation of life….. it would be like looking at past relationships and where you went wrong, what you did wrong, who you chose that was wrong etc…. and you can see that this is counter productive and a waste of energy when the Miracle is in front of you. Instead you would focus on the partner you want, the experience you want and the partner you want to be…. And then you would focus your attention on the anticipation of the baby that this way of being will be and begin to get excited. Looking to the past is exhausting, never ending and as I said, wasted energy because if we knew better at the time, of course we would have done better, so you can never go back and undo what has been done. However, you can look to the future and create a Miracle…..One is negative and has no answer, end or solution. The other is positive, powerful and self propelling!!! Which feels more empowering and creative to you?
Once you have decided on the Miracle you wish to create, it’s time to take a good look inside. Every tool, capability and capacity exists deep within you only you haven’t had the awareness or exposure to this innate creativity like you have your ability to make a baby because our society has become so distracted with going to a job we don’t like to feed a family we weren’t ready for who requires a house and car we can’t afford. We are so distracted from our inner world, by our outer world, we just missed the Truth. We didn’t attend a class at school that included listening to our inner tutor. We only attended classes that taught us to listen to external educators, who had been educated by other external educators, who had been educated by other external educators…etc. etc generation after generation. Now, I’m not saying reading, writing and arithmetic are not important, what I am saying is that there is a vital education we have failed to include! Before we started school, we just trusted our instincts to cry when we felt it was appropriate, to eat when we were hungry, to jump, run and play at will and to see the world as our very own personal play ground. By the time we started school, we had to learn to control our emotions, conform to instructions that were contrary to our intuition and we were made wrong for independent thought which led to our feelings of insecurity, an inability to trust our own judgment and a belief that we are not really good enough. We sacrificed being in control of ourselves and the ability to make things happen that felt inspiring and empowering because we conceded that others knew better than we did! Well, here is your first lesson in Creating Miracles Class 101A…….. Just like your ability to make a baby, you have the ability to make a Miracle …..however, there is just one caveat……. You must become “Intimate” with the part of you that is the creator. You must learn to trust, relate, commune and play with the creator that you are, not just in this moment, but in every moment. Lets face it, your life has been inadequate at best and tragic at worst so far…. What have you got to loose? Try it on… you never know what will be-come possible if you don’t give it a go. It’s like that relationship you always wished you’d gone for, but you let it slip through your fingers. You know the one….. When we look back, most of us have “the one that got away” …. The man or woman we loved from a distance but never expressed or explored. In this case, you’re guaranteed to be accepted, loved in return, never rejected and never let down…… because it’s YOU getting intimate with the REAL YOU. The Creator!!
Becoming intimate is waaaaay more involved than just flirting with your inner power, requires waaaaay more trust than just lip service and a willingness to get it wrong some-times though you keep trying. Just like any truly intimate and connected relationship, intimacy over the long term requires commitment, devotion, willingness to participate and sometimes finding yourself in unfamiliar territory but being willing to explore the possibilities that lay beyond what you believed the boundaries of love would be.
There is only one love. This may be hard to understand, but again, just try it on for a moment. There is only one love!!! That is the love of Self. The creative love. The love that moves mountains, changes minds, calms the wild beast and makes the world go around. Until we can experience true intimacy with the creator that we are, all love that we experience outside of ourselves in special relationships will never be enough. We will always find ourselves wanting, being needy, insecure and failed in some ways because a cup that is empty can never overflow giving what it doesn’t already have. We are all empty cups in our world, looking for love in all the wrong places because we have never been inwardly focused to activate the miraculous life giving power that resides at our core. From the time we are capable of our first memory, we become outwardly focused and our modern day relationships are a reflection of this floored premise. How many relationships end or struggle through infidelity? How many relationships end due to neediness and insecurities? We are all looking for something we think we don’t have, in another……. Clearly, it’s not working and there is one primary reason….. We seeking fulfillment and completion in the arms of another where it cannot exist because their cup is empty too…. It does not stand to reason that two empty cups equal a full one!
True and Miraculous love starts with an inner intimacy and acknowledgement of the Creator that we are. From there we are able to give more than we can know. I say this because we have never experienced this level of connection and acknowledgement of the Creator in ourselves or in others. We have just stood in judgment and condemnation making ourselves and others wrong for failing to meet our expectations, demands and conformities with what is considered the ‘norm’ and what is considered successful.
To establish ‘intimacy’ with the Creator that we are, there is recipe:
1. Acknowledge the truth about yourself… You are a Creator!
2. Participate in every moment of your life as a Creator!
3. Don’t accept anything less and do whatever it takes to maintain your focus on the Miraculous outcome you intend to create for yourself (NOTE: You won’t know how to create the Miracle because you’ve never been down this road before. It’s new to you, so don’t expect to know the HOW. Your job is simply to acknowledge WHY you are a Creator (HINT: You are a Creator in order to Create! Create life, create abundance, create joy, create happiness and anything else your heart desires!)
4. Acknowledge WHAT you intend to create
5. Then get busy at BEING the Creator. Remember there is nothing more for you to DO! Creation is not about overwhelm, over work and over achieving….. Creation is about ‘ease’, ‘flow’ and ‘intimacy’
6. PARTICIPATION IS YOUR ONLY REQUIREMENT!

Now, you can ignore this message or you can act on it. Either way you will be creating your experiences. You cannot stop your creativity and you cannot manipulate it. You can only acknowledge its presence within you because like your hands, your feet and your awareness, it is with you and a part of you. It is the means by which you experience your joy, abundance and your inheritance and your failure to participate does not negate it’s power, it simply holds you separate from it leaving you in a condition and experience of lack and wanting.

It’s time to decide!

It’s time try it on!

What have you got to loose?

Dive deep into the message that drives you and give a powerful voice to the inspiration inside! Hold nothing back as you move the hearts and minds of millions!

February 18, 2018 by Sam Jones

Here I am, sitting on my balcony on the Ruby Princess Cruise ship, docked in the beautiful port of Katakolon Greece. I’m sitting in the sun contemplating life, as I do…. And I get this blinding flash of questions, which prompted me to write this article. As I write it, I’m blown away because I don’t know if I will get the answers by the time I get to the end of it. I sure hope this rabbit hole leads to a rainbow…. For both our sake!!!

Ok…. Here goes:

Who does the driving? Does the body drive the mind and determine our actions etc (like hunger…. The body drives the desire to eat) or does the mind drive the body? Does the mind determine that it’s time to eat, and therefore habitually we eat?

I’ve used hunger as this example but lets look at love…. Does the body determine the feeling of love or does the mind drive love? Who is driving us? Is it the mind or is the body??

Well, I would naturally lean toward the mind being the driver, because I know, that the body does have cellular memory, but innately it is a neutral vehicle consisting of blood, bones, tissue etc. So, if this is true, and science tells us that it is…. Then it must be the mind right?

Ok, down the rabbit hole we go!
What is the mind? Possible answers could include:
Me, my personality, my beliefs and my attitudes and values ..

This leads to the next question:
Where did they come from and are they true? They are just perceptions based on past experiences and someone viewing the same experience would have a different perception about it…so our beliefs and values are unique to us, but certainly not a universal truth.

The next question is:
What is my personality? When we cut you open, we don’t find your personality. All we find is a neutral body…. We stitch you back up again, and bingo… you’re back again!!
1. Where did you go?
2. How come you have to be conscious in order to be inside the body and
3. How come we can’t actually find you?
4. How come you’re not physical, like your leg is physical?
5. If you’re not physical, what are you?

My brain….

This leads to the next question that your brain is just a grey ball of neurons, tissue and an incredibly mysterious network of electrical reactions which, when stimulated, will cause both physical and emotional responses….. When we are walking around each day, who is doing the stimulation? If you automatically

respond with “me, I am doing the stimulating”…. Go back to the first possible answer above!

So, it doesn’t matter which way you answer this question, there is a response which arises in a ‘rabbit in a headlight’ look that leads to no answer or possibly an answer that involves another Intelligence that is outside of the body, but expressed through the body.

Lets go down this rabbit hole for a second and flirt with its potential:

If there is a grander intelligence outside of the body, but expressed through the body, then this intelligence is doing the driving!!! Do you know what this means??

The same intelligence that drives me, drives you. This means that we are not separate at all, in fact, quite the opposite! If that same intelligence that drives you, is driving me, then surely that intelligence has a purpose and drives us all toward that purpose…..
What could that purpose be? What are we really here for? It can’t really be to make a difference and to contribute because I would imagine the grander intelligence has that under control…. But why do we all have this inner desire to help each other and make a difference then? Could this be a part of the educational reason we are here…. To discover that there is a grander intelligence that expresses through us, and when we discover this, we realize there is no need to try…. No need to compete, no need to struggle and paddle up-stream just to get ahead in life and perhaps we are just here to enjoy it….. to play instead? Could it be that simple??
If the same intelligence that drives me, is driving you, it’s no wonder that we all have the same Ultimate desire to participate in the greater good of the world
If everything we’ve ever done has been as a result of this grander intelligence, then I’ve never really been in control…. I’ve believed I have been in control and responsible, but the truth is quite the contrary!
I have been running around believing that ‘if it’s going to be, it’s up to me’ but if it’s going to be, it’s up WE!! Me and the grander intelligence!! If this is true, who is the grander intelligence and I wanna know it…. Intimately!!! Where is it? How can I connect with it? Is it in me? Is that feeling of depth inside? My Soul? Is it that feeling of love?
We are NOT alone!! We are not separate and in fact we live in an environment which is actually about inclusion, not exclusion but our belief that we are separate trying to make life work is an illusion and we have been fooling ourselves…… why? Why would we believe that we should be disconnected, when we really aren’t and never have been! How has this disconnection and separation served us? It hasn’t actually. It’s been our undoing all along throughout time…. When the opposite has been true all along. How come we didn’t see this before?

So, now, I’m thinking a little further….. How do we explain murderers, thieves, abuse etc? How do we explain the people who don’t care about the greater good?

Well, if we are to look at the body as an example of what could possibly be a snapshot of the Universal body…. Every cell in the body has a job. Every cell knows its job and no one cell is actually different in structure or make up to

another regardless of whether it’s a cell that makes up the skin or lungs or the legs…. Each cell is identical, yet they all have different jobs. They all work for the greater good of the body and will sacrifice themselves for the greater good if necessary. There are also cells in the body, which, when given destructive conditions, will begin to consume more than they need (just like our society) and we call these cancer cells. They are so destructive, they will in fact destroy everything in their path, consuming everything in their path, until they destroy themselves, by destroying their host. These cells are the ultimate kamikaze cells! Similarly, in society we have people, that given the right conditions, will turn on humanity until they ultimately destroy everything in their path until they destroy themselves and the host…… in other words, global demise (think terrorism now!).

However, like the human body, when we change the conditions of the body by participating with the grander intelligence in a profound way, meditating, eating real foods, cleaning up our anger, our perceptions and our beliefs about truth, we can potentially turn off the activity of this destructive force with success….. perhaps, we can do the same when it comes to humanity and society….. Perhaps if we were to realize that we are not doing the driving….we have the potential to WAKE UP to a new and enlightened way of living in this world and with a collective commitment to this clean up, we can turn these kamikaze people around, or off and begin to live in peace and harmony?

Is it possible that when we believe we are doing the driving, which results in our fear, anxiety, depression, sickness, dis-ease, we believe we are ultimately alone, separate and left alone to wonder this planet in search of purpose, money, success and freedom, yet never finding it….. only finding sporadic moments of love and laughter contrasted by longer periods of loss, fear, anxiety, striving and struggle? Clearly, this way of living and believing, is not working for us. In fact, it is creating that destructive environment where we are turning on ourselves, consuming more than we need because we believe we are in lack and ultimately leading to an existence of implosion and self destruction!

When we actually question the very nature of existence in terms of who is thinking you? Who is driving you and what makes us all the same….instead of what makes us different….. as we did at the beginning of this article we cannot avoid confronting the possibility of another intelligence participating in our lives yet we are ignoring it. We are not acknowledging it therefore, not understanding and relating to it, yet it is possible that this grander intelligence is the very source of our unity, harmony and greater good! There is another way of existing in this life that has been there all along. It is not new, it is not foreign to us, and it is no stranger. It has been closer to you than your own nose and you just didn’t see it because it’s always been there!!

Think about it. How do you know, who you are? Really. How do you know you exist? Really? How do you know what truth really is? If you hadn’t been taught by your family, school, university, and perceptions of your experiences, what would you believe truth to be?

My point here is that everything is made up! It’s been passed from generation to generation through story, education, conditioning and perceptions, but how do we know that any of it is actual truth? We don’t!! We only know what we know…. When we cross over into this line of questioning, we are moving into the realms

of what we don’t know, we don’t know but the magical part about this questioning is that no question has ever been asked, without the potential of answer existing somewhere!

No text book can answer this question, no study can reveal the truth about ‘who is doing the driving’….. only your internal experience will have you discover the awareness that exists in you and the more you’re willing to explore this question, the closer you will come to knowing the answer for yourself and I believe…. Knowing who you truly are, and that you are WAAAAAAY more than you have given yourself credit for!!

Is this the answer I was hoping for when I first started writing? I don’t know…. Somehow I feel incomplete yet I know this has opened a door that I’ve never walked through before. There is a different shade of light on the other side of this door which I am willing to enter because one thing I know for sure….. this world requires us to wake up and experience wholeness and harmony….. and the way we are interacting and have been for generations is leading us to one outcome…. Self destruction. If we are to act for the greater good of the whole, more and more of us need to clean up the environment in which we exist. I for one am willing to answer the calling….. how about you?

If we keep doing things the way we have been doing them, we will keep getting the results we’ve always had……. HOW IS THAT WORKING OUT??

Dive deep into the message that drives you and give a powerful voice to the inspiration inside! Hold nothing back as you move the hearts and minds of millions!

February 18, 2018 by Sam Jones

Attending presentations is a great way to learn about a particular subject, topic or concept. As an entrepreneur, however, it’s high time that you step away from your cozy seat as a member of the audience, move toward the stage and take the place of the person speaking!

Delivering presentation provides you with an opportunity to tell your business and ‘brand’ story – to introduce your business, products and services to the public, to discuss the solutions you are offering, to establish your credibility and trustworthiness and to create leverage using your existing patient base.

Being an effective public speaker will allow you to share what you know, contribute to the community you are part of, and deliver value– even before they become part of your network. Welcome to THE number one, proven way to position yourself as an expert.

Are you already shivering in stage fright from the mere thought of standing all alone and being vulnerable in front of a group of strangers? You’re not alone – some personalities are born for the stage while a lot more experience fear, anxiety and insecurity about the concept of public speaking.

What differentiates the business leader from the average shopkeeper, however, is that business leaders will take action steps to build the skills and attitude needed for them take the speaking limelight.

Here are three steps you can take today to pave the path toward engaging, powerful and downright transformational presentations:

See public speaking in a different light. I’ve experienced the magic of making a connection through public speaking from both ends, as a public speaker myself and as a member of the audience. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not just the audience that gains from the experience. I see it as a journey that we’ll both take, each leaving with takeaways at the end of the presentation. For the listener and viewer, it may be the knowledge and lessons that the speaker shared with them; for the speaker, the scope of influence and positioning gained from being seen as a subject matter expert is invaluable and, knowing you’ve enhanced the lives of those in your audience is an extraordinary experience of contribution and achievement!

Try it! There’s nothing like experience to show you how it really works. You don’t have to prepare a presentation for next annual Chiropractic Conference…. You can start with a small group or even the staff in your clinic. MY suggested exercise: Structure your presentation using my 3 key points:

Why is this information important
What are you talking about
How to implement your strategy

Deliver your ideas to your team or small group and ask for feedback. Treat it like a ‘pilot’ for the real deal. Be open to what comes back; make the necessary changes and then practice, practice, practice!!

Never stop learning. Once you understand that public speaking is the FASTEST and most effective way to build your business, start looking for opportunities. Attend presentations, read materials, sign up for tutorials, talk to experts. Listening to people willing to share their knowledge, seeing how others do it, and finding your own style is a no-fail way to find your own voice.

P.S. Learning how to deliver your message and finally knowing how to do it successfully, is a great adventure. Don’t forget to have fun along the way! The more you do it, the easier it becomes, I PROMISE!!

Dive deep into the message that drives you and give a powerful voice to the inspiration inside! Hold nothing back as you move the hearts and minds of millions!

February 18, 2018 by Sam Jones

Get this!!

When I believe my thoughts, I suffer

When I don’t believe my thoughts, I don’t. This is true for every human being

What the mind believes it sees!

When the heart and the mind are the same, in other words, believe the same thing, that is the end of duality.

Duality, stress, anger, anxiety, etc is anything that goes against our innate nature and we feel it. We know we are out of ‘alignment’… our emotions let us know that we are out of alignment and it’s the indicator to look inside to ‘realign’ – It’s call of the chiropractic adjustment to the Soul

Pain and suffering are the contrast to the Universal Intelligence which is always born out of fear and misalignment to the truth and reality. Fear is the projection into the future of an outcome that will have us lose what we have or not get what we want. Nothing more. Ever!

Fear = losing what we have or not getting what we want.

Fear = is the sublaxation of life and it interferes with the fullest expression of innate intelligence

RECIPE:

We believe a thought
Life shows us what we believe
The thought is confirmed because now we have proof.

If this is the recipe of our existence, surely we have to change the ingredients and it starts with the source thought which we believe at point number 1.

HOW: Question the thought with a simple yes or no answer without the story about it and see what comes, authentically.

Now go to the direct opposite of that original thought and wait for life to respond. Universal Intelligence is waiting for us to SHOW UP! The Real US!

We know the opposite is true because we have experienced it and we cannot pursue something that doesn’t exist…eg: a blue sun or purple grass. The painful contrast is the illusion and we are running around relating to it like it is ‘the’ truth and we are wasting our lives!

It’s time to see WHAT IS…… instead of what isn’t!!!

OMG…… I got this ages ago, but today I’ve got more of it!! Sooooooooooo in love with my recipe!! Soooo loving the steps and soooo loving the meaning and explanation of fear!! SHUT THE F….RONT DOOR!!!

Dive deep into the message that drives you and give a powerful voice to the inspiration inside! Hold nothing back as you move the hearts and minds of millions!

February 18, 2018 by Sam Jones

After 10 years of doing this diet, that diet, lemon detox, blood type, paleo and low carb and HCG, I finally got sick of it!

I got sick and tired of being bloated, overweight, lethargic and worst of all, up set each time I sat down to eat a meal. Every thing I ate left me bloated, even tomatoes and lettuce in the end!

It was my birthday, 1^st February and I had had enough of listening to everyone else about what I should and shouldn’t eat. I have amazing friends that are experts and even they couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t loosing weight! So, I decided to take food in to my own hands and throw out every diet and recipe book in my house, I was fed up!

At the age of 23 I chose to begin a vegan lifestyle, but I had no idea how to do it. I didn’t want to eat animals anymore and didn’t want to be someone who contributed to the death, slaughter and insane cruelty that our animals are subjected to through de-sensitised farming practices. The only problem was I simply replaced meat with bread, and didn’t educate myself properly.

Fast forward 20 years and it’s my birthday, I’ve had enough of listening to everyone else, and I choose Vegan again. For the same reasons, only this time, I choose to educate myself on how to eat well, be well and healthy.

In my exploration and investigation I discover there is more protein available to the body in Kale than there is in a steak and no brutality was inflicted on the Kale in order for it to reach my plate…. HAPPY DAYS!!

I enlisted the coaching of a Vegan food coach who recommended a way a daily eating and I’ve been following a very straight forward regime ever since. I’ve never felt better, I’ve never had more energy, clarity, connectedness to nature and humanity and I’m absolutely LOVING eating food that has life in it!! I’ve lost 8kgs without even trying and I’m still dropping !

My daily diet consists of fresh juicy fruit for breakfast, as much as I want! Banana, papaya, peaches, pineapple, acai, berries, and I make smoothies, fruit whips using my Thermomix or sometimes, I’ll dehydrate 2 bananas that I’ve blended into a liquid and made crepes which I will use to stack high with fresh berries, fruit whip and a little home made, dehydrated granola on the top.

Then at lunch time it’s all about the greens. Chard, baby spinach, mesclin lettuce, kale, cabbage, beet greens…. Sometimes lightly steamed and some times raw… with all the colours of the rainbow as extras like carrot, beetroot, red and yellow capsicum, tomato, corn all topped with my favourite dressing of Olive Oil, shallots, fresh orange juice, salt n pepper

Dinner is similar to lunch though I do like to add baked potato, sweet potato or pumpkin with any number of devine dressings that I have made. Right now, I’m loving my Miso and sesame dressing.

I may have a desert of homemade coconut ice-cream with my own home-made chocolate grated over the top. YUMMO!!!

Snacks are a little coconut yoghurt, fruit, rice-cakes with avocado and tomato and anything that I feel like provided it’s not high in fat and fresh.

Am I tempted by ordinary foods?……….NO WAY!! I watch the way other people eat and I feel compassion for them and the cruelty they are obliviously endorsing just so they can eat a steak or a roast. I am never tempted by dairy, pizza or burgers because to me, they are the epitome of pain and suffering for all involved including me and I’m just not prepared to go there. The food is disgusting, it smells revolting and the affect on the human body is startling. The more I discover about my choices, the more I’m convinced people should switch to a plant based way of eating!! There are no limitations, no restrictions, only beautiful healthy food prepared for us by nature, as opposed to processed, poisoned and toxic food prepared by a science lab, an abattoir or a some other profit driven entity that cares very little for the health of society!

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February 18, 2018 by Sam Jones

Since I was a kid, I always felt there was a ‘higher’ power that was participating in my life. I had a sixth sense about it and when I was introduced to the bible when I was about 4, it made sense to me…. Well, some of it did!

The older I got, the more aware I became that something ‘more’ than human was responsible for spinning the earth, gravity, the beauty of trees, the intelligence in a rose and beating my heart in rhythm! I found the bible had some great pieces but it didn’t answer my questions in a way that I was satisfied with. The story of the bible, the metaphors, the examples, instructions and directions all gave me clarity and in some cases a path to follow, but it wasn’t the book of rules for living that I really wanted.

As someone who is an avid researcher, experimenter and explorer of knowledge, and always have been, I found myself following my nose to a variety of ‘Spiritual’ book shops, where I came across two very small little books: The Impersonal Life and The Way Out…. Neither have a noted author however, the first flick through was enough to draw me in.

Both books speak of the God inside and the Power that exists in each of us, if we are willing to pay attention. Wow! I was blown away and excited at the same time because it was the first time I’d read anything that placed my experience in every way, squarely in my own hands and it also gave me the awareness of something bigger participating in my life with me! I didn’t really understand it all fully at that stage as I was just 21 but it certainly rang true with me and felt right for me!

I told my mum and my sister who were just like me in their pursuit of the spiritual truth and the between the 3 of us, we felt like we were on our way!

This was the beginning of the journey for me which lead to other books, video’s, view points and teachings and some I agreed with, some I didn’t but the best part about the journey, is I had begun to trust myself and what rang true for me as opposed to someone else’s opinion!

Over the course of the years I’ve loved writings of Deepak Chopra (LOVE HIM!!) Marianne Williamson and A Course in Miracles (AWESOME!!!), Nirmala’s Nothing Personal, Louise Hay, Bruce Lipton (BRILLIANT) and hundreds of others which have all contributed to where I am right now.

I’m still experimenting and exploring lots of different books and beliefs and just love being so open to entertain the different information out there. I guess the most important thing I’ve learned as a result of this journey is to TRUST MYSELF above everything else. I guess what I’ve come to believe is that no other human being that is alive can really know the Ultimate truth. No one else has all the answers and no one else can honestly claim to know the answers of the Universe and the meaning of life and death. Not really. We are all just human beings in search of connection but no one can know the Ultimate Truth.

Having said that, there are certainly those who say that they channel Higher entities and I have no idea if they do or they don’t but I do find myself questioning how it is that our knowledge and inspiration collectively continues to expand and develop… Take the Secret and Abraham-Hicks as an example. Also, I find myself questioning the incredible information available through Eastern philosophies and teachings and have to believe that there is a ‘magical’ way that such amazing information reaches the masses continuously. It’s has to get here somehow and maybe, just maybe there are those among us that do channel enlightened messages!! It’s nice to believe that could be true while at the same time, I think it’s important to be as discerning as possible so as not to be sucked in to charlatans, money grabbers or cults because there is also corruption in this world and while it has never crossed my path, I do know others that have fallen victim due to their own vulnerability and innocence.

I have to say, that there are countless times that I’ve shared information from the stage which has been profound (and I only discover the profound-nicity when I listen to the recordings!) which at the time felt like the brilliance wasn’t coming from me! To add to the conundrum, afterwards I have no memory of what I’ve espoused!

It’s a beautiful feeling really. A feeling of absolute lightness, peace, serenity and clarity without question. I feel as though I’ve left myself from an intellectual perspective and all I feel is a pure sensation of love and connectedness. I know that sounds weird considering most people would be terrified if they were to stand in front of 2000 people and find themselves going blank, but it’s a pretty regular occurrence for me!

I must confess that this is one of the secrets to my confidence and relaxation on stage. I deliberately ask to be used by those in higher places and I promise to get out of the way so that whatever message is necessary for that audience can be delivered without any interference from me. It’s a ‘prayer’ that I utter to myself before I take the stage and when I stand in front of the massive rooms of people, I feel incredibly honoured and humbled that I have the ability to let myself go and make room for a magical message!

Am I channeling? Who knows? All I know is that I am always thirsting for growth, I’m always trusting myself and I am always open to new inspiration and I guess, it’s the one thing that continuously drives my business and my life in every way and I feel like I’m the luckiest person alive! I don’t know if this is channeling or not s I wouldn’t know how to ‘really’ tell. All I know is that when I speak from this place of nothingness, I get the greatest results and when I listen to the recordings, I get the greatest learnings! Bring it on whatever it is and my wish for you is that you discover the truth that exists inside of you and you live like the most magnificent expression of all that you are…. REALLY ARE!!

Much love!

Dive deep into the message that drives you and give a powerful voice to the inspiration inside! Hold nothing back as you move the hearts and minds of millions!

February 18, 2018 by Sam Jones

They say a picture paints a thousand words, however it is your voice that delivers them and the way you deliver them that packs the most punch.

How do you feel about public speaking? Are you one of the majorities who cringe and shake at the thought of it, or one of the minorities who jump at every opportunity to share their message with confidence and volition? With the support of Carren Smith and The Art of Public Speaking seminars, the minority of confident and professional presenters is growing at an enormous rate locally, nationally and internationally.

Funny, captivating, engaging motivated and enlightened. These are just some of the words used to describe the CEO of Quantum Leadership Group, Carren Smith.

Carren and her team will deliver The Art of Public Speaking Seminar in Brisbane on 19^th and 20^th February 2011 and on the Sunshine Coast on the 5^th and 6^th March 2011 and they are receiving enormous accolades from local speakers, authors, entrepreneurs and business leaders.

“I’m so humbled by the response we’ve had for these seminars over the 3 years. It is obvious that there are many people eager to develop their communication skills from all walks of life. We have designed a program suitable for anyone and everyone from sales people and entrepreneurs looking for ways to grow their business, to business leaders and all members of the community who want to find a new level of confidence inside themselves”.

As with all great things Australian, the American market piques its curiosity and Carren is no exception here. In April 2011 Carren has been invited to the USA to launch Quantum Leadership Group and her seminars!

Listen to this great Teleseminar hosted by Red Hot Events and discover how Carren turned her life around and how developing your public speaking skills can do the same for you.

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The Art of Public Speaking Seminar is more than just a “how to speaker better” seminar, it is a whole weekend of personal development and self realisation.

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If you’re ready to discover the tools to find, embrace and express your voice with confidence, we would love you to join us at The Art of Public Speaking Seminar. Visit us at www.qlg.com.au to find out the dates and locations closest to you!

Dive deep into the message that drives you and give a powerful voice to the inspiration inside! Hold nothing back as you move the hearts and minds of millions!

February 18, 2018 by Sam Jones

In and of themselves, feelings and emotions aren’t good or bad, helpful or unhelpful, they are just expressions – it’s what we do with them that counts most!

Like most emotional eaters and over eaters, we consciously or unconsciously use our emotions as a trigger or reason to eat which either rewards the emotion or punishes it. Either way, WE ultimately pay the price with weight, health, increased emotional responses or at worst, irreparable dis-eases.

So, as I mentioned in my blog, the problem is not what we eat, but why we eat and in order to bring about any lasting change, we MUST address the emotional triggers regardless if they are positive or negative emotions.

So, lets get started shall we?

In this blog, I am going to focus in on emotional eating for reward. Lets start with the good stuff!!

I’d love to know if this scenario sounds familiar to you:

You’ve just scored an amazing win either at work, in your business, your family, or, you’ve been given something you’ve wanted for a long time and you’re just lit up like a Christmas Tree about it. You may even have achieved a milestone in your diet plan or graduated from school or study. Perhaps things in your relationship are starting to look up or you kids have achieved something fabulous…. It really doesn’t matter what it is that has occurred, you’re in a great place and you know it! You have worked hard, you deserve this feeling and you want it to last forever! So………let’s celebrate!!

You may go out for dinner and do the full three courses, you may have that extra few glasses of celebratory champagne topped with a decadent block of chocolate and strawberries. Maybe it’s even a trip to the local organic café and you order up big! Nut milk coffee with oat biscuits, organic chicken salad with spelt bread and extra dressing, a side of sweet potato fries, a large vegie juice, a big wedge of cashew cheese cake and another nut milk coffee (Ok, that’s where I am right now. I’m at an organic café and watching a woman who is quite overweight making love to a feast in front of her which is pretty healthy but when it’s all taking up 4 settings and she is here by herself, it’s over eating big time!).

Or your win may not even be that significant, but you feel great anyway, and you wonder over to the fridge, scouring it for morsels of opportunity to feel even better and indulge in the internal acknowledgement that food delivers faithfully. It doesn’t matter if no one else acknowledges your achievement, your special friend, food, will always be there for you….. right?

Oh it’s so sad as I write this blog because seeing it in writing in front of my eyes makes me see the ludicracy of the relationship I’ve had with food. It became my addiction, my confidant, my lover, my comfort and my greatest fan!

When we achieve something that we think is awesome, it’s the Dopamine in our brain that makes it feel fantastic. As a natural habituated response, we want that feeling to last, so we find food that immediately triggers the brain to release more dopamine, and for as long as our stomach can handle it, we continue the onslaught because each time we reach for another mouthful, another burst of Dopamine in injected into the bloodstream and we feel fabulous!

So, how can we feed this need to sustain the awesome feeling of achievement without using food as our addictive/addicted response?

Well, it takes effort and….. it is most certainly achievable!

Here are a few steps to help get us started:

Recognise when you feel ready to reward yourself. Pay attention to the emotional responses you’re experiencing. Don’t allow them to occupy space in your body rent-free! Emotions are like squatters, they will turn up unannounced, sometimes uninvited and stay for an indefinite period of time if the accommodation is left unchecked. So, it’s time to begin examining your emotions and their comings and goings so that you remain the land-lord! They can also leave an incredible mess, trash the house and leave you with a lot of ‘clean-up’ if they are the destructive types!
Become aware of your habituated responses. Just pay attention to them. Initially, don’t try to change anything. Just notice what you do, when you do it, and how it feels as you’re doing it. Perhaps you can even journal this process so you have more than your memory to rely on. That would certainly be my recommendation because our minds can be forgetful at best and deceitful at worst and if you could trust your mind to give you the way out of this way of operating around food, it would have done it for you already!! Bitter pill to swallow, but true!

Dive deep into the message that drives you and give a powerful voice to the inspiration inside! Hold nothing back as you move the hearts and minds of millions!

February 18, 2018 by Sam Jones

We’ve all been told over and over again that to lose weight and feel healthy, we’ve just got to eat real, whole and healthily food and exercise regularly!

Now, all the facts are there, and it sounds pretty easy. So why does is it feel SO DIFFICULT?

Well, I want to tell you why. The truth is, it’s because for some of us, our relationship with food goes a whole lot deeper than just the facts. There are feelings and emotions involved – and we all know too well that whenever feelings and emotions are around, things start to get really complicated.

The ‘some of us’ (over 80% of us actually) that have this emotional connection with food, we’re called ‘emotional eaters,’ and when it comes to trying to lose weight it’s an adventure that requires a holistic approach which includes the psychological as well as the physical.

If you eat when you’re bored, or to lift your mood, or to comfort yourself, or when you’re happy, or when you’re stressed, or even for reward, you fall in to the category of an emotional eater.

If you feel ashamed to eat in front of your friends or your partner, if you feel out of control when it comes to food (or just certain types of foods) and if you are internally punishing yourself for every sweet and sugary craving you give in to (but you just. can’t. stop.) it’s very likely that emotional eating has found its way into your life, your body and your mind.

But you know what? That’s OK. Up until two years ago, I was an emotional eater too. There, I said it! I’d battled for years with my weight and tried every single diet on the market, but it was only when I finally became aware of the much deeper ‘emotional eating’ issue, that I could even begin to start the road to healing it to deal with it.

So you’re an emotional eater. What now?

Do not worry my gorgeous, because you are in safe hands. And together, we’re going to put an end to emotional eating once and for all!

If you’re sick and tired of feeling like a failure with every diet you’ve tried, if you’re fed up with feeling sluggish and lethargic, if your willpower has been totally sucked dry and if you find yourself sobbing as you cram your muffin tops into your jeans – then I’ve got something for you that I know you’re going to love!

I’ve put together a whole program dedicated to making your health and weight loss simple, it’s called ‘Eat with Ease’. Out of everything you’ve tried, you’ll breathe a sigh of relief because this program finally works! Eat with Ease covers every single aspect of how to make a transformation that lasts: including your mind, your body, your food, addictions, your movement, your past, your present, your future, your emotions, your feelings, your knowledge and everything in between!

To tell you more about the program, and to provide you with some really simple steps to get you on the right track to feeling happy, healthy and wonderful at last, I’ll be releasing some videos over here on The Healthy Living Club every week this month. Cos’ you know as well as I do, after all this time, you really deserve to feel AMAZE-BALLS!

What if I believe I’ll never succeed at feeling good?

Ah, see that’s your emotional brain talking. Yep, the those thoughts that tell you that you’re worthless, a failure, will never look and feel the way you want and leave you feeling miserable are the culprits to fuelling the emotional eaters fire! I remember them all too well, and I’m afraid they’re part of the package that makes up your relationship to food. But, don’t fear, because I’ve got that covered too, and we’re going to delve deep into your mind and kick the ‘mean bit’s’ butt all the way to you feeling as special and as gorgeous and as worthy as YOU ARE!

You can keep an eye out for my guidance videos by checking back here each week. But in the meantime, here are some of my top tips to kick start your journey to health and self love!

RECOGNISE the emotional responses you experience. Every time you go to the fridge, ask yourself why you want to eat? Is it because you’re actually hungry, or, is it because you’re bored, sad, happy, excited, nervous or stressed? Or even, because it’s become a habit. Chances are you’ll surprise yourself how often the answer to ‘Am I hungry?’ is NO.

REMEMBER your responses. Notice what you do (i.e. eat), when you do it (i.e. every day when you arrive home from work), how it feels when you’re doing it (i.e. you feel guilty because you’ve eaten so well all day.) Keep a record of these habits and feelings in a journal to find patterns you could alter.

REPLACE food as your go-to ‘pick me up’ with something else you enjoy. We have four senses aside from taste, explore them to boost those dopamine levels. Take a bath in deliciously scented aromatherapy oils, play and dance around with your kids, get lost in an exhilarating read or listen to a playlist of your favourite songs.

There are a myriad of ways to tend to your emotions that do not involve eating.

So go ahead, give yourself and your body a break, you really DO deserve it!

Want to find out more about my Eat with Ease program? I’ll be running a LIVE webinar on 19^th February at 6.30pm to tell you everything you need to know and to answer any of your questions!

To secure your spot on the webinar, email your name and contact details to info@carrensmith.com

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