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It's been an
exciting time since my last entry. Choosing Easy World has now been
launched and it has been fun receiving reports of how people have
discovered it and bought it. It's VERY magnetic, and is drawing people
in to its very Easy World force-field! It's not too late to collect the bonuses when you order your copy now!
I'm going to make this pretty quick because I have to go to bed so I can be up and ready for the camera for an interview tomorrow a.m. at 7:15. Have to be at the studio by 6:55. And you know what a night owl I am if you've read this blog for any length of time.
If you're in the Denver area, I hope you'll watch me on Channel 20 at 7:15 a.m. tomorrow, Wed., August 11.
And more importantly, please join me at Tattered Cover at Highlands Ranch at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow night for a mini-seminar and booksigning! If you're not in the area, please let your Denver friends know about it and tell them they need to know about Easy World!
The 10 Radiant Seconds event went splendidly. If you didn't make it to the live event, or just want more of it, you can watch the recordings of it here.
I've uploaded the videos of two--make that three--of the special guests who contributed their time and talents to the event. They graciously made videos of themselves in honor of it and of the launch of Choosing Easy World. I'll be putting a couple more of these videos up, but here are 2 of them now.
Radiant Marci Shimoff's video--in it she talks about the big paradigm shift that's afoot, and how radiating Love and choosing Easy World factor in.
AND, The Easy World Song, starring wonderful Teresa Albright and LaDon Jones (it may take a couple of times through for this to grow on you, but it will), and it is very catchy--will stick in your brain to keep reminding you of your choice to live in Easy World! I've noticed a big difference since I've been singing it pretty much non-stop--even in my sleep! Enjoy!
I'm going to make this pretty quick because I have to go to bed so I can be up and ready for the camera for an interview tomorrow a.m. at 7:15. Have to be at the studio by 6:55. And you know what a night owl I am if you've read this blog for any length of time.
If you're in the Denver area, I hope you'll watch me on Channel 20 at 7:15 a.m. tomorrow, Wed., August 11.
And more importantly, please join me at Tattered Cover at Highlands Ranch at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow night for a mini-seminar and booksigning! If you're not in the area, please let your Denver friends know about it and tell them they need to know about Easy World!
The 10 Radiant Seconds event went splendidly. If you didn't make it to the live event, or just want more of it, you can watch the recordings of it here.
I've uploaded the videos of two--make that three--of the special guests who contributed their time and talents to the event. They graciously made videos of themselves in honor of it and of the launch of Choosing Easy World. I'll be putting a couple more of these videos up, but here are 2 of them now.
Radiant Marci Shimoff's video--in it she talks about the big paradigm shift that's afoot, and how radiating Love and choosing Easy World factor in.
AND, The Easy World Song, starring wonderful Teresa Albright and LaDon Jones (it may take a couple of times through for this to grow on you, but it will), and it is very catchy--will stick in your brain to keep reminding you of your choice to live in Easy World! I've noticed a big difference since I've been singing it pretty much non-stop--even in my sleep! Enjoy!
This weekend was really cool. It was INATS (International New Age Trade Show) West weekend, which, as long-time readers of my blog know, means Donna Michael, my buddy since 7th grade, was here in Denver for it. She was one of the entertainers..
We had our customary girlfriend day on Thursday, and ended up going to Golden again even though we had considered heading up to Boulder to check out Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant. (Turns out it was fine we missed out on Leaf as Rick and I are going to Boulder this week to take Allison, Stepdaughter #2, who is now vegan, to dinner there.) So Donna and I enjoyed our lunch, sitting outside overlooking Clear Creek Whitewater Park, watching the tubers shoot the little rapids in front of us. It was a perfect weather day--warm, dry, and sunny with a breeze. Magic!
We then went to Red Rocks Amphitheatre--Donna had not been there before and it's a must-see, especially for a musician like Donna! So beautiful and the energy is sublime there--lots of music vibes and happy feelings stored in those ancient rocks!
On Saturday and Sunday, I went to INATS and my desire to "play with the big kids" (which you read about in this blog entry) found a new level of fulfillment! Okay--I didn't play with them much, but met and talked to them! Here I am with Louise Hay, Denise Linn, and Joan Borysenko:
I also was delighted to get an email from Gay Hendricks saying that I can add him to my list of spiritual author all-stars
who will be participating not only in the book launch, but the 10
Radiant Seconds event! So far we've got Gay, Marci Shimoff, Joe Vitale,
Peggy McColl and Patrick Combs lined up for 10 Radiant Seconds PLUS my
awesome musician friends, Laraaji, Donna Michael, Brenda McIntyre and
Teresa Albright with LaDon Jones. I'm so excited about this!!! You can bet that there will be more forthcoming about this event...
This girl really knows how to start her day! I dare you to watch this and not feel the energy rising.
No--I take that back. I dare you to go to your bathroom and do your own version of this!
No--I take that back. I dare you to go to your bathroom and do your own version of this!
I've been going back through some old
files and finding lots of cool content I just never figured out how I wanted
to share. Below is part of my conversation on a forum with a guy who was
in a conundrum about two women, Rachel and Jessica. Here was the gist
of his question, which seems is a common one for people wanting to apply
the Law of Attraction:
And here is my response to him:
Because we can't manifest a certain individual in our lives, does that mean our means of creation is limited? If our means of creation is limited then we are truly not 100% free to create any experience in our lives.
And here is my response to him:
We are not intrinsically limited in our creative ability. We can, indeed, manifest anything we desire. The trick is to understand what that really is.
Our desires are always aligned with Source, but our *translation* of those desires is colored by our extremely limited ego. Until we are operating at high enough frequency to have the viewpoint from which we can see from the git-go that Jessica is the correct match to our desire, we would do well to express our intention to have the best possible match to our desire and trust that it will manifest perfectly. Trust IS a huge challenge for ego, but such is the task of the spiritual warrior!
At lower frequency, at which we are always operating when we are operating in ego's domain, we just see Rachel and think SHE'S the match to our desire, when the truth is, at the higher level where our creative power resides, we know that Jessica is really the correct match. To the degree that we ALLOW the vibrational match to manifest in our experience without the ego resistance of "But I just HAVE to have Rachel," the faster our true desire will manifest.
At the higher levels of our being, we are purely creative and all-knowing, all seeing. But the level where most of us are operating now, with soooooo much ego input, we are largely blind. Allowing ego to translate our desires is a ticket to frustration as ego is extremely limited in what it sees. It operates totally on evidence rather than true vision. Yes--ego is not a lot of help in manifesting what will truly bring you joy.
SO, you might be able to force things and get Rachel, but you will find that she is not the match to your true desire.
Yes--we can create what we truly desire, but ego is the wrong one to tell you what that is!
Here's the trailer for Eat, Pray, Love! At first I was challenged to imagine Julia Roberts as Liz Gilbert, but I think it works--what do you think? So eager to see the movie!!!
I was recently interviewed about Easy
World by Isabel Morales and it's now in the archives at Joy Vibe Radio
and ready for listening! I think you'll enjoy the energy--truly a "joy
vibe"!
Isabel is one of several who hosts on Joy Vibe, which was started by Sierra Goodman, the amazing woman who runs a dolphin and whale sanctuary in Costa Rica and who lost 180 lbs. through using LOA principles. Isabel, who I met through the old Powerful Intentions community, and I have great chemistry and she is very attuned with Easy World, so that made for a really fun time.
Living
in Easy World with Julia Rogers Hamrick on Joy Vibe Radio
Enjoy!
Isabel is one of several who hosts on Joy Vibe, which was started by Sierra Goodman, the amazing woman who runs a dolphin and whale sanctuary in Costa Rica and who lost 180 lbs. through using LOA principles. Isabel, who I met through the old Powerful Intentions community, and I have great chemistry and she is very attuned with Easy World, so that made for a really fun time.
Living
in Easy World with Julia Rogers Hamrick on Joy Vibe RadioEnjoy!
I am down 3 sizes, I'm continuing to
detox, problems I hardly even knew I had are clearing up, and I feel
better than I have in a long, long, LONG time. So I just have to share
what I've been doing! I meant to do this before but the energy didn't
show up with the inspiration, so, true to Easy World principles, I just
waited till it did. Now's the time!
Since the clinic in Spain, where I fasted for 17 days, not including the 2 days leading into the fast and the 4 days coming out of the fast, I've been eating mostly raw veggies with a few (healthy) cooked items added in to keep me grounded. I'd say I'm at about 75-80% raw at this point and it feels SO good! I haven't been following a rule book--indeed, the whole turning point for me was when I surrendered my healing to my Spirit and committed to following its guidance step-by-step, in the moment.
That was probably the biggest healing factor of all since I had been living as a "house divided" for so long--knowing that I was eating to satisfy my emotions and hide from my real feelings instead of to support my health and honor my body temple. It was the one holdout in my life--the one area I had not truly allowed my Spirit to be in charge of. Finally being willing to allow myself to flow back into alignment with my Spirit and the divine blueprint for my health has freed me in a way that one cannot imagine until one experiences it.
I'm eating lots and lots of salads--and pretty much constantly craving them. While I was fasting, I wasn't craving stuff that most people might crave--I was craving salads! (I believe the fast was pivotal in breaking my addiction to certain things like fats, heavy protein, dairy etc.) In addition to eating salads, I'm drinking them, too! Drinking them?
I've been consuming a preponderance of my greens in "green smoothies." Green smoothies are blended greens of various sorts and fruit, blended in the VitaMix (powerful blender that can blend hard veggies, etc., into liquids very rapidly). Our first favorite (yes, Rick is drinking them, too!) is kale, banana, and strawberries (plus water and flax seeds and a little agave nectar to sweeten if needed). It's hard to believe that is good until you try it! You can't taste the kale--only the fruit.
Our newest favorite green smoothie is a recipe from Victoria Boutenko's book Green for Life. It's spinach, lime, banana, and apples. It tastes like a cross between key lime pie and Margarita mix! Victoria is the "mother of the green smoothie movement." She did research on chimpanzees (because they're the human animal's closest relative) and discovered that their diet is predominantly greens and that they often wrap their bananas in green leaves, thus giving her the idea to make greens palatable by blending them with fruit. Way to go, Victoria! Green smoothies are making a huge difference in a multitude of lives by giving bodies what they need to be healthy in an easily assimilated form. When you break down the cell walls of the greens by blending, you release the nutrients to be effiiciently absorbed. (We don't usually chew long enough to accomplish that!)
So...I highly recommend eating lots of raw veggies, especially green smoothies, but most important, surrendering your eating to your Spirit and watching your amazing transformation unfold as I am!
I created a Facebook Fan Page today. Please become a fan!
Since the clinic in Spain, where I fasted for 17 days, not including the 2 days leading into the fast and the 4 days coming out of the fast, I've been eating mostly raw veggies with a few (healthy) cooked items added in to keep me grounded. I'd say I'm at about 75-80% raw at this point and it feels SO good! I haven't been following a rule book--indeed, the whole turning point for me was when I surrendered my healing to my Spirit and committed to following its guidance step-by-step, in the moment.
That was probably the biggest healing factor of all since I had been living as a "house divided" for so long--knowing that I was eating to satisfy my emotions and hide from my real feelings instead of to support my health and honor my body temple. It was the one holdout in my life--the one area I had not truly allowed my Spirit to be in charge of. Finally being willing to allow myself to flow back into alignment with my Spirit and the divine blueprint for my health has freed me in a way that one cannot imagine until one experiences it.
I'm eating lots and lots of salads--and pretty much constantly craving them. While I was fasting, I wasn't craving stuff that most people might crave--I was craving salads! (I believe the fast was pivotal in breaking my addiction to certain things like fats, heavy protein, dairy etc.) In addition to eating salads, I'm drinking them, too! Drinking them?
I've been consuming a preponderance of my greens in "green smoothies." Green smoothies are blended greens of various sorts and fruit, blended in the VitaMix (powerful blender that can blend hard veggies, etc., into liquids very rapidly). Our first favorite (yes, Rick is drinking them, too!) is kale, banana, and strawberries (plus water and flax seeds and a little agave nectar to sweeten if needed). It's hard to believe that is good until you try it! You can't taste the kale--only the fruit.
Our newest favorite green smoothie is a recipe from Victoria Boutenko's book Green for Life. It's spinach, lime, banana, and apples. It tastes like a cross between key lime pie and Margarita mix! Victoria is the "mother of the green smoothie movement." She did research on chimpanzees (because they're the human animal's closest relative) and discovered that their diet is predominantly greens and that they often wrap their bananas in green leaves, thus giving her the idea to make greens palatable by blending them with fruit. Way to go, Victoria! Green smoothies are making a huge difference in a multitude of lives by giving bodies what they need to be healthy in an easily assimilated form. When you break down the cell walls of the greens by blending, you release the nutrients to be effiiciently absorbed. (We don't usually chew long enough to accomplish that!)
So...I highly recommend eating lots of raw veggies, especially green smoothies, but most important, surrendering your eating to your Spirit and watching your amazing transformation unfold as I am!
I created a Facebook Fan Page today. Please become a fan!
Last night, as I
watched one of our two remaining elderly pet mice struggling to return
to the sock hideout where she seems most comfortable, in what appear to
be her last days, I found myself crying and feeling really bad for her.
"Knock it off," my inner voice said. "You do not do her any favors by feeling bad for her. She's not a victim--she's having her own experience of being God in mouse form in the reality matrix called duality."
But it felt good to me--a relief, at least--to allow myself, if only for a moment to have those feelings and shed those tears. Her struggles weren't alleviated by my having them, but perhaps my own were. Resisting Difficult World only puts you deeper in Difficult World! And wallowing in it beyond the point where the energy is released does the same thing. Pay attention to where you are in your process to know whether you're in resistance or non-resistance as it can flip in a nano-second. Non-resistance is the key to higher frequency.
As human beings, with the capacity for compassion and empathy, we do walk a fine line between allowing ourselves to relieve the stress that builds up as we spend time in Difficult World, triggered by what we see in the mirror of our surroundings, and maintaining our confidence in the Divine Order of it all. Because even when we don't understand it, all that occurs really is in Divine Order. When we fall into the trap of seeing what is happening as wrong, we ensure that we are more ensconced in Difficult World than ever. And when you're in Difficult World, you can be sure that difficulty and pain will be there with you.
So, after indulging for a moment in feeling sorry for Nettie (the mouse), I realized that, indeed, I was not helping her or myself beyond my release of built-up energy that flowed out in my tears and my temporary indulgence in victimhood. To empower the situtation, I needed to be clear so I could do what is needed.
As I thought about this, I thought, too, about the earthquake in Haiti, and I realized that feeling bad about it and empathizing with the people who are involved at close range is of no value beyond releasing my own stress and being non-resistant. It surely doesn't help them.
You might say, "Well, those feelings might motivate you to do something in a practical sense to help."
Yes--but remember, your wisdom and access to divine guidance is available at higher vibrational frequency, not lower. So, after releasing the sad energy, the way to assure that what you do to help is in alignment with the Design for Harmony, re-affirming Divine Order and moving back to higher vibrational frequency is the way to assure that your actions will be of the highest possible service. Radiating Love is the most potent thing you can do, and being caught up in painful feelings doesn't allow you to do that effectively.
If you haven't yet donated to helping the people of Haiti, consider Partners In Health, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has been in Haiti for 2 decades and is staffed mostly by Haitians.
"Knock it off," my inner voice said. "You do not do her any favors by feeling bad for her. She's not a victim--she's having her own experience of being God in mouse form in the reality matrix called duality."
But it felt good to me--a relief, at least--to allow myself, if only for a moment to have those feelings and shed those tears. Her struggles weren't alleviated by my having them, but perhaps my own were. Resisting Difficult World only puts you deeper in Difficult World! And wallowing in it beyond the point where the energy is released does the same thing. Pay attention to where you are in your process to know whether you're in resistance or non-resistance as it can flip in a nano-second. Non-resistance is the key to higher frequency.
As human beings, with the capacity for compassion and empathy, we do walk a fine line between allowing ourselves to relieve the stress that builds up as we spend time in Difficult World, triggered by what we see in the mirror of our surroundings, and maintaining our confidence in the Divine Order of it all. Because even when we don't understand it, all that occurs really is in Divine Order. When we fall into the trap of seeing what is happening as wrong, we ensure that we are more ensconced in Difficult World than ever. And when you're in Difficult World, you can be sure that difficulty and pain will be there with you.
So, after indulging for a moment in feeling sorry for Nettie (the mouse), I realized that, indeed, I was not helping her or myself beyond my release of built-up energy that flowed out in my tears and my temporary indulgence in victimhood. To empower the situtation, I needed to be clear so I could do what is needed.
As I thought about this, I thought, too, about the earthquake in Haiti, and I realized that feeling bad about it and empathizing with the people who are involved at close range is of no value beyond releasing my own stress and being non-resistant. It surely doesn't help them.
You might say, "Well, those feelings might motivate you to do something in a practical sense to help."
Yes--but remember, your wisdom and access to divine guidance is available at higher vibrational frequency, not lower. So, after releasing the sad energy, the way to assure that what you do to help is in alignment with the Design for Harmony, re-affirming Divine Order and moving back to higher vibrational frequency is the way to assure that your actions will be of the highest possible service. Radiating Love is the most potent thing you can do, and being caught up in painful feelings doesn't allow you to do that effectively.
If you haven't yet donated to helping the people of Haiti, consider Partners In Health, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has been in Haiti for 2 decades and is staffed mostly by Haitians.
I need to get focused on packing and such--I feel like I've been in a complete fog and I'm just now waking up and realizing that there are only 3 days before the morning when I leave for Spain! So many details to handle. Very glad I know about Easy World. Now, to remember to choose it... (grin)
But I did just want to report the latest in the Choosing Easy World book saga.
I received the Spring/Summer catalog from St. Martin's Press, Choosing Easy World's publisher, today, and not only did they give it a 2-page spread, they had listed their marketing plans for it and they are HUGE and exciting and I feel SOOOOOOO blessed.
I also connected with the marketing manager for the first time today and in her email she said, "I LOVE the book. You have created an amazing, totally accessible and wonderful work. I'm so thrilled to be working with you on it!"
I'm in total awe of how Easy World is handling all this. Naturally, Easy World wants the book about itself to do great, but still--wow!!!
I'll see if there's a chance to write again before I leave, but I suspect my next blog entry may be from Spain!!!
But I did just want to report the latest in the Choosing Easy World book saga.
I received the Spring/Summer catalog from St. Martin's Press, Choosing Easy World's publisher, today, and not only did they give it a 2-page spread, they had listed their marketing plans for it and they are HUGE and exciting and I feel SOOOOOOO blessed.
I also connected with the marketing manager for the first time today and in her email she said, "I LOVE the book. You have created an amazing, totally accessible and wonderful work. I'm so thrilled to be working with you on it!"
I'm in total awe of how Easy World is handling all this. Naturally, Easy World wants the book about itself to do great, but still--wow!!!
I'll see if there's a chance to write again before I leave, but I suspect my next blog entry may be from Spain!!!
Please excuse my blogging lapse--I've been busy having some breakthroughs and such!
The injections in my knees have been a huge success--one more session to go this Friday, and my next healing move (at least, my next tangible one) will be to go to the clinic in Marbella and do the 21-day juice-fast. I'm getting excited and, if the truth be told, a little teeny bit scared about it. Not the fasting, just the weight I've assigned to the whole thing. The Difficult World Dictator is very threatened by this undertaking, and thus is inserting as many doubts as he can get through the wall of enthusiasm and confidence I've erected.
Here are some of his taunts: What if it doesn't work? (Julia--why would Spirit have guided you to do it if it isn't going to be effective?) What if I get better but can't keep up what I need to do in order to sustain feeling good? (Julia, then Spirit will guide you to the next doable step.) What if don't lose as many lbs. as I feel I ought to while I'm there and my knees continue to bear the stress of the extra weight and I end up needing a total knee replacement? And what if that doesn't really work? And what if I end up not being able to walk and I'm stuck in a wheelchair? And on and on. (Julia, get your mind out of the gutter--I mean, Difficult World and create it the way you want it, not how you don't want it! Anyway, this isn't a sprint, it's a marathon, and the guidance about what to do and when will come to you in the moment, when needed.)
Yet, regardless of all the stuff the DWD is lobbing at me, I feel so high-vibe and fantastically faith-filled and sure that this is right! I went to the chiropractor yesterday and though I could have walked, I allowed Rick to wheel me from the car into his office without resistance or being embarrassed or anything--something of a first. It just made sense! And who really cared? Only my vanity. Phooey on it! I want to save all my knee power for the trip. It's amazing what dropping resistance and allowing can do for one's energy. Between that and the adjustments, Dr. Stimson measured my vibrational frequency/level of consciousness (ala David Hawkins in Power vs Force) at 1280! That's over a hundred points higher than last time. I've not made such rapid jumps since he first started measuring me several years ago.
There may really be something to this notion of letting go of resistance and following your Spirit! (insert big wink)
There's more, but I'll let you digest this one and get back to you on some of the fresh insights that have started downloading into my brain...
The injections in my knees have been a huge success--one more session to go this Friday, and my next healing move (at least, my next tangible one) will be to go to the clinic in Marbella and do the 21-day juice-fast. I'm getting excited and, if the truth be told, a little teeny bit scared about it. Not the fasting, just the weight I've assigned to the whole thing. The Difficult World Dictator is very threatened by this undertaking, and thus is inserting as many doubts as he can get through the wall of enthusiasm and confidence I've erected.
Here are some of his taunts: What if it doesn't work? (Julia--why would Spirit have guided you to do it if it isn't going to be effective?) What if I get better but can't keep up what I need to do in order to sustain feeling good? (Julia, then Spirit will guide you to the next doable step.) What if don't lose as many lbs. as I feel I ought to while I'm there and my knees continue to bear the stress of the extra weight and I end up needing a total knee replacement? And what if that doesn't really work? And what if I end up not being able to walk and I'm stuck in a wheelchair? And on and on. (Julia, get your mind out of the gutter--I mean, Difficult World and create it the way you want it, not how you don't want it! Anyway, this isn't a sprint, it's a marathon, and the guidance about what to do and when will come to you in the moment, when needed.)
Yet, regardless of all the stuff the DWD is lobbing at me, I feel so high-vibe and fantastically faith-filled and sure that this is right! I went to the chiropractor yesterday and though I could have walked, I allowed Rick to wheel me from the car into his office without resistance or being embarrassed or anything--something of a first. It just made sense! And who really cared? Only my vanity. Phooey on it! I want to save all my knee power for the trip. It's amazing what dropping resistance and allowing can do for one's energy. Between that and the adjustments, Dr. Stimson measured my vibrational frequency/level of consciousness (ala David Hawkins in Power vs Force) at 1280! That's over a hundred points higher than last time. I've not made such rapid jumps since he first started measuring me several years ago.
There may really be something to this notion of letting go of resistance and following your Spirit! (insert big wink)
There's more, but I'll let you digest this one and get back to you on some of the fresh insights that have started downloading into my brain...
