Let's begin with what peace is not. True peace is not a lack of conflict. True peace only occurs when we move beyond conflict in our own hearts and minds, and can truly feel at peace within ourselves and within our own lives.

When Mother Theresa was asked why she never participated in anti-war marches she replied, "As soon as you have a pro-peace march I'll be there."

With all the prayers in the world for peace, why haven't we accomplished this? Is it possible we don't fully understand the technology of prayer? The most powerful prayer in the world is how you FEEL. If you want to experience peace in the world, you must learn how to actively feel peaceful throughout the day. You must find peaceful ways out of conflict. If you want to see a harmless, loving world, you must BE HARMLESS in your actions and conversations with yourself and with others.

There are plenty of ways you can participate in an activity supporting peace, but once you've written your letters or marched in a peace protest, what can you do? Many people feel frustrated and helpless, as if their voice and prayers aren't being heard. But your prayers, in the form of your feelings, are heard. And if your 'prayers' are feelings of anger and frustration and helplessness, you will receive more of what you've been praying for.

Based on results, isn't this true? Haven't you noticed that your feelings keep generating more of the very thing you don't want to experience? If you're praying for more money, aren't you feeling a lack of abundance? If you're praying for love, aren't you in fact feeling unloved and alone? Have you noticed these issues are then perpetuated, not solved. We cannot heal a world in conflict if we are in conflict within ourselves.

Some people become so disillusioned they become angry that God hasn't heard their prayers. Could it be that we're literally 'praying' our own experiences into existence every moment of every day and that our prayers are being answered, for positive or negative? If that's the case, shouldn't we learn to align ourselves with the power of positive prayer? The Silent Language of Peace will explain how to reprogram your thinking and give you the tools for having peace as a reality in every moment of your life.

As I've explained, the most powerful tool for peace in your life, and in the world, is your ability to feel peace continually, no matter what's going on in the world around you or in your daily life.

The toning-meditation on the last track of this CD is the most powerful tool for peace I've ever experienced. I'll explain it in more detail, but for now let me say that singing or humming with the music is very important if you want to physically feel peace, because it creates a deeply relaxing vibration in your body.

In the same way there's a fundamental difference between thinking about love and feeling love, it's the same with peace. It truly is a silent language that's powerfully perceived when it's present. The resonance that occurs in your body when you breathe deeply, sing and fully relax will ultimately become imprinted in your consciousness. And you will begin to spontaneously experience the feelings of peace you've been practicing. I've had many people comment on the difference between simply listening to the music and actually singing with it.

The content on this CD has come from my own personal experience. I've applied in my own life everything I offer here. And since I began the toning-meditation, my life has been filled with peace, joy and gratitude consistently on a daily basis for four years.

I want to share my experience so you'll see that part of being at peace is listening to your intuition. When I first began the toning-meditation I was a single mother with a 2-year old daughter. I was determined not to put her in day care, and I had her all day, six days a week. One day a week she'd stay with her father and in that one day I scheduled all my work as an intuitive counselor. I literally had no time off, day after day, week after week. I loved being there for my daughter, but I was also exhausted.

A few days after I'd started the toning-meditation I woke up in the morning and had this strong feeling to sign up for a month long membership at a ski resort in the mountains. It didn't make much sense to me, since I'd never been one to workout on a regular basis and fifty-dollars was a lot of money to me at the time. But I also knew to trust my intuition, and since I had the money, I drove up and signed up for a membership.

My daughter's father worked in the area, and when he heard I'd signed up at the spa, he offered to care for Amelia for five or six hours on a daily basis. So every day I hiked in the mountains, followed by swimming in the pool, and relaxing in the hot tub and steam room. I spent hours in the solarium hand writing a book while listening to relaxing music and looking out over the mountains. This became my every day reality.

I suddenly realized my income hadn't changed, but I was living the life of a very wealthy person. Then one day a simple thought spontaneously came into my mind that said, "You asked for peace and here it is." It was a stunning revelation. I realized it had never occurred to me to be willing to feel peace on a consistent, daily basis. I thought, It can't be this simple. But it is. I began to see that life is naturally meant to be peaceful and joyful, but I had to consciously choose peace and joy.

One day, after several months, I was in the steam room, and I met the love of my life. A man I never would have met because I wasn't a skier. We were married six months later, and we both actively practice the principles in this CD as well as doing the toning-meditation.

Because we live these principles there has never been an unkind word between us. Our relationship becomes deeper and more intimate every day, because we live in peace and harmony with ourselves and with each other.

One day I was thinking about the extraordinary fact that I'd never felt anything but love for my husband, and I wondered why that was. Though I wasn't trying to think of an answer this thought came to me. 'The reason you feel nothing but love for this man is because there is no more pain left in you to project onto him."

After we were married I thought to myself I must have finally gotten something right! Again a thought came to me that said, "It's not just what you've done right, it's every mistake you ever made that brought you to this moment." So you see, it doesn't matter what your life looks like today, you're listening to this, because you're ready to hear it. And you'll see a profound change take place if you simply apply the following transformational principles to your life.

Please understand these principles apply to you as an individual, and also to any group you're a part of. It doesn't matter whether the group is gender based, religious, ethnic, or anything else, apply the principles and you'll have positive results and experiences.

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If you would like to start seeing answers instead of problems, you must first understand that everything you experience is filtered through your perception. In other words, your perception determines your experience, not the event itself. For instance, if you had a hundred different people who have the same experience, there would be a hundred different reactions, depending on individual perception, which is based on past beliefs and feelings. 

Look at your life and determine what percent of your life is peaceful and joyful, and what percent is problematic or chaotic? Now observe your thinking: What percent of your thoughts are focused on happiness, love and joy, and what percent are focused on worry, anger, fear or resentment? How often do you have little inner conversations where you argue your point and try to prove that you’re right and they’re wrong? Notice there’s a direct correlation between the percent of what you’re thinking, believing or feeling, which is positive or negative, and the percentage of positive or negative experiences in your life.

A Course in Miracles says something to this effect, “You either learn through love or fear. If you learn through love your lessons will be joyful, if you learn through fear your lessons will be painful. Either way you’re going to learn.” So the question is this: Do you want to continue having painful experiences or would you rather learn through joy? 

Most people believe in some sort of a Higher Power or God. Even those who say they don’t believe in “God,” may very easily embrace the statement from the Bible which simply defines God as “Love.” Or they may think, “I only believe in myself.” God is defined as “I AM” in the Bible. So if you believe in your own existence, you are, by definition, believing in God. This may not be how religions define God, but this is the broad definition for our purposes here. So when I say the word, God, please apply whatever definition will allow you to hear the message!

All modalities and therapies recognize that what we’re really dealing with are patterns in consciousness. So if you want your life to change, you have to change the way you’re thinking. In other words, if you are focused on your problems and feeling stress, worry, anger, resentment...you will continue to create those experiences in your life. If you want a life full of abundance, joy, love, peace and harmony, you can create it by FEELING abundant, FEELING love, FEELING joy and FEELING gratitude! It’s as simple as that.

If you doubt your mastery in this area, just realize that you’ve already powerfully “mastered” your ability to create painful experiences by focusing on fear and negativity, so you can just as powerfully create something joyful by focusing your full attention on Love! Do this powerfully and do it with great joy!

I assure you that if you feel like you’re in the pig-pen, or you’re battling depression, or you’re experiencing lack and limitation, or wondering when God is going to answer your prayers or give you the love-of-your-life, you will only continue to experience more of the same. If you want out of the pig-pen: FOCUS YOUR FULL ATTENTION ON GOD, ON DIVINE LOVE, PASSIONATE LIFE, THE TRUTH OF YOUR BEING! Do you want the love of your life? BE the love of your life!! BE the Love you ask for!

It is through LIVING passionately, joyfully and with an abundant heart that you will draw these experiences to you! There is no other way! Say to yourself over and over, “I Love My Life,” no matter what the appearances may be: Because you created it! If you deny that what’s happening to you is a direct result of your own thoughts and feelings, you’re stuck with that creation. If you love your creation, then you can create anew.

Truth is a subjective thing. What’s true for me may not be true for you. So I’m not here to tell you The Truth. I am here to tell you what WORKS! And, based on results, does your life work? Is your life filled with joy, abundance, peace, and harmony? Do you love your life? If there’s something missing in your life, I can absolutely guarantee, I can give you an uncomplicated process that will change your life, if you simply apply the principles. Use all of these ideas, or just pick what works for you. It is impossible to apply the following ideas without experiencing positive change!! So if you do not experience a positive change, it’s because you are choosing the same fearful, worried, stressful thoughts and experiencing the same painful results. It’s as simple as that! You can create joy or pain, “...either way you’re going to learn.”

Make a commitment to yourself that you will listen to the tape daily for 60 days and diligently apply the information. Doing this for 60 days will create a solid basis for a new way of thinking and feeling. Even if you only listen to a small portion of the tape, it will remind you to realign your thoughts, which will in turn begin to re-pattern your thinking.

“The Results Book”
by Arlo Wally Minto.

If you want to start seeing answers instead of problems, let me share with you the GREATEST PROBLEM-SOLVING CONCEPT IN THE UNIVERSE. To use this problem-solving concept all you need to do is simply understand that all problems are O.K. Every problem you have is O.K. The problem, itself, is O.K.; and it’s O.K. for you to be experiencing the problem.

The reason problems must be O.K. is because your brain operates under the law, as you believe so shall it be done. Your brain is a computer-like guidance mechanism and it guides you according to the beliefs you have programmed it with. However, there are different degrees of belief. What are some of the things you believe in? You might answer God, gravity, myself, night and day. These are things we might all believe in, but there are things we believe in stronger than any of these. The simple truth is that the things we believe in stronger than anything else are the things that we fear. I will guarantee you, if you are walking down a narrow path through the woods and you come face to face with a grizzly bear, you are going to believe in that grizzly bear stronger than you ever believed in God or gravity or yourself or anything else. If you believed in God that strongly, you would be getting answers to all your prayers, but you’ve probably never prayed with that much energy and emotion. You see, fear is the same thing as belief except that you put more energy and emotion into something you fear and so it becomes a stronger belief.

You believe in God, gravity, yourself. That is believing. Then there is really believing, and really believing is worrying about something. And then there is really, really believing. And the things in life you really, really believe in are the things you fear. Realize that you use the same faculties of your brain-mind functioning to believe in God as you use to fear the dentist, except that when your believing reaches the degree of fear, you are putting more energy and more emotion into it so it becomes a stronger belief.

If you can grasp the fact that worry and fear are the strongest forms of believing, and as you believe so shall it be done unto you, then you will understand how allowing your problems to be O.K. will solve 90% of your problems in life without even directing any attention to the problem. 

The simplicity that makes this work is this: Have you ever worried about something or feared something if you knew it was O.K.? No! If something’s O.K., you don’t worry about it or fear it.

The reason you have failed to reach many of your goals in life is because you have not been aware that worry and fear are the strongest forms of belief. There is an ancient message, “That which I feared the most came upon me.” What the message is really saying is, that which I really, really believed in happened to me.

If you are constantly worrying about or fearing something, the greater energy and emotion from the worry and the fear create a predominant brain cell pattern of what you are fearing or worrying about. Your predominant brain cell patterns are your habits or your comfort zones. Fear and worry simply develop a habit of being or doing or having what you fear or what you worry about.

How many times have you said to yourself, “I don’t know why I keep doing this. I really don’t want to but I can’t seem to stop?” Haven’t you found yourself consciously praying to stop something and at the same time worrying to keep it going – praying to get out of debt and worrying to stay in debt, praying to lose weight and worrying to gain weight?

If you will allow our problems to be O.K. just the way they are, then your subconscious mind will stop worrying about them or stop fearing them. This allows your subconscious mind to stop really, really believing in your problems. Then the conscious desire or answer has a chance to become a reality. In other words, by eliminating worry and fear you allow your mind to see answers instead of problems.

Your brain is designed in a computer-like manner to seek answers, but through worry and fear you have taught it to see the problems instead. If all of your attention is focused on the problem, you will not see the answer. Worry simply develops a habit of having or doing or being what you are worrying about. When you worry, you create a predominant brain cell pattern of the problem. When you say it’s O.K. you are creating a new pattern that releases the worry and thereby releases the problem.

When you start using this concept, start with yourself, because if you are not O.K., then nothing else in the world is O.K. Have you noticed that when you are not O.K., then nothing is O.K.? When you are filled with happiness, when you are O.K., the whole universe and everything in it is O.K. So start with yourself being O.K.

After you have experienced the ah-hah that you really are O.K. just the way you are, then you may experience another ah-hah, that every other person in the world is O.K. too, just the way they are. Even though it may seem like an impossibility at the moment, if you keep applying this O.K. concept, one day you will realize that even your husband or wife, your parents or your children, your boss and even your enemies are O.K., just the way they are. In understanding this you will have developed a powerful tool in helping other people overcome their problems.

If your child is smoking and you know it’s not O.K. to smoke, what is your child admitting if he stops smoking? That’s correct, your child is admitting he was wrong. But, if it’s O.K. to smoke and it’s simply that the results of smoking through a lifetime are usually not desirable, then the child can quit smoking without being wrong.

It’s this concept that has given me so much success in communicating with youth about their problems. So many times parents will drag their child in, sure that I am going to tell the child how wrong he is for smoking or drinking or taking drugs or whatever it might be. As soon as the parents leave the room, my communication with the youth is that his problem is O.K. I mean, it really is O.K. to take drugs. It’s even O.K. to shoot heroin. The result of shooting heroin is that you will probably die within four years because that is the average lifetime of a mainliner. That’s O.K. too because we’ve all got to die sooner or later and if they choose to do it in that manner and that soon, that’s O.K. too. I also point out to the youth that the most likely result of letting go of drugs, is probably a longer, healthier, happier life.

I really communicate with youth that they are O.K. with problems or without them. It’s only that the results are going to be different one way or the other. This allows them to let go of problems without being wrong.

This O.K. concept is not new to you. When you faced a problem and you knew there was nothing you could do to change the situation, haven’t you said, “Well, there is nothing I can do about it, so I guess it’s O.K.”? And what happened? Most often this caused you to stop worrying about the problem and the problem dissolved and disappeared.

Now you might ask, “If the whole world is O.K. and every person is O.K. and all problems are O.K., just the way they are, then why change? Why put out any effort? Why do anything at all?” There is no reason to do anything, there is no reason to change, unless you want to experience something different than what you’re experiencing now. If you are experiencing an unhappy relationship and instead you would like to experience a happy relationship, then of course, you must change. If you want that change to take place without frustration and without problems, if you want that change to take place by flowing with the universe, then you must first realize that it is O.K. to be experiencing an unhappy relationship now. This will allow your subconscious mind and those people around you the freedom to begin experiencing a happy relationship.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND, ALLOWING EVERYTHING TO BE O.K. DOES NOT STOP CHANGE AND PROGRESS, INSTEAD IT ALLOWS PERFECT CHANGE AND PROGRESS TO TAKE PLACE WITHOUT PROBLEMS. If the problem is not O.K. this forces you to keep the problem in your mind and you take the problem into the future. If the problem is O.K., this allows your mind to release the problem and leave it in the past so that you can see the answer in the future.

Now you may still misunderstand this whole concept and say, “But what if someone takes unfair advantage of me - is that okay?” Sure, it’s okay if someone takes unfair advantage of you. If you had allowed it to be O.K. before it happened, it probably would never have happened. Haven’t you noticed that the people who are always worried (really believing) that someone is going to take advantage of them are the ones who are usually taken advantage of? Even more important is understanding you are O.K. and so it’s O.K. for you to do something about it. It’s O.K. for you to do something to make them stop taking advantage of you. 

You see, the whole universe is O.K. When you only use the concept halfway, you only get half the results. When you say it’s O.K. for someone to take unfair advantage of you, but it’s not O.K. for you to do something about it you are only using it halfway. When you say it is not O.K. for someone to take unfair advantage of me but it is O.K. for me to do something about it, you are only using the concept halfway. It’s all O.K. Allowing it to be O.K. for people to take advantage of you does not guarantee that no one will. However, it does stop you from believing that everyone is going to take advantage of you and, consequently, fewer people do. Letting it be O.K. to fail does not guarantee success but it will stop you from believing in failure which will certainly make your success a lot easier.

The most important reason for applying the O.K. concept is to eliminate fear, worry, guilt and judgment. Fear, worry, guilt and judging are four of the most destructive forces there are. If you allow yourself and your problems to be O.K. and other people and their problems to be O.K., you eliminate the need of worry, fear, guilt and judgment from your life.

The reason there is so much power in realizing that yourself and your problems and everyone else and the whole world is O.K. is because letting it be O.K. is a lot closer to love than what you have been calling love. How many times have you said to your husband or wife or parents or children or boy friend or girl friend, “I love you anyway.”? What you are really saying is that you are not O.K., but I love you anyway. And, friends, that is not love. Instead, when you can say to your friends, to your family, to your enemies, “You are O.K. just the way you are,” that is love.

It has been said that love is the strongest force in the universe, that love overcometh all things. If this is true, then love should certainly overcome our problems. Understand now why the O.K. concept is the most powerful problem solving concept in the universe? When you know that a problem or yourself or another person is O.K. just the way they are, you are expressing love, and love truly is the greatest power in the universe. Love, truly, overcometh all things. “It’s O.K.,” is the expressing of love.

There is a fascinating, mind-expanding aspect about love in that you can only give love, you cannot keep it. You can give love to another person but they cannot keep your love. That is why love is the strongest force in the universe. Whenever love is expressed, nothing can stop it. It keeps spreading throughout the universe because it cannot be possessed.

You may say, but when people love me and I have their love it makes me feel good. But you do not have their love because having indicates possession. If you really become aware, you will find that it’s not having love that makes you feel good, but rather it’s returning it or passing it on. This is part of the ancient message, “It is more blessed to give than it is to receive.” It is more blessed to give love than it is to receive it, because you can’t keep it anyway. The reason it is more blessed to give love than to receive it is because you are giving of your real true self. If you take a human being and take away the human part, all you have left is the being and that part of you is love. The real you within, your inner-self, still remains beautiful and perfect. If you grasp this, then you may grasp part of the message that says, “The truth shall set you free.” The truth is that the real you, your inner-self is love. And when you give of yourself you may truly overcome all things. If you will project your love into a problem, in other words, let the problem be O.K. just the way it is, you will become free of the problem. (End of excerpts)

[Note: If you’d like to be contacted when The Results Book is back in print write to: Trent & Melanie Minto * P.O. Box 205 * Nampa, Id 83653]

Once you’ve worked with the information from The Results Book, try adding The Seven Day Mental Diet to your recipe for health. 

The Seven Day Mental Diet

For seven consecutive days do not say or think anything negative. (This means if you go off the diet you have to start over!) Now don’t throw up your arms and quit here!! This IS possible. Just remember that whatever is not working in your life is directly connected to what you’re thinking. First the thought, then the experience – not the other way around! If you still disagree with this concept, ask yourself this question, “Based on results, are my beliefs generating a happy, harmonious and fulfilling life?”

Not saying anything negative is one thing, not thinking negatively, is another! The truth is you can’t help a negative thought that “occurs” to you, it’s whether or not you continue to think the negative thought. Here’s one method for consciously releasing negativity. Say to yourself, “This is none of my business.”

Now you may be convinced this problem is your business. But look at it this way; if there’s nothing you can do about it in this moment, it’s none of your business. It doesn’t matter whether it’s your bills, your job, a close relationship, or the lack of one. If you can pay that bill, pay it: If not, say to yourself, “This is none of my business.” Which really is the same as saying, “It’s O.K.” Or as The Bible says, “I can of myself do nothing.” And when you let go, realizing that you can “do nothing,” your mind stops focusing on the problem and begins seeing answers.

It doesn’t matter if there are problems in your community or if you’re concerned about the environment or world peace, the same principle works: If you can do something about it, in this moment, do it – if not, “...it’s none of my business.” 

If you’re feeling angry or stressed or feel pressured say to yourself. “I am willing to release this feeling of________________(anger, resentment, fear etc.) and I am willing to be at peace. (See the book, “Feelings Buried Alive Never Die” by Carol Kuhn.)

Willing is the operative word. If you think about a time when you were angry or depressed, I can absolutely guarantee that you were never willing to release the feeling. The reason I can say this with total conviction is that I know from experience that you cannot be willing to heal (or release a problem) without the accompanying results.

You may ask, “If it’s really this simple, why do people go on in pain and misery and suffering?” The answer is simple: their personal identity (or ego) is tied into the problem.

A Course in Miracles says, “Do you prefer to be right, or happy?” If you are suffering, I can assure you, that you either “share” your suffering with others or you have an on-going “conversation” in your mind where you “discuss” how good you are and how the other person is “wrong,” and has treated you badly. Even feeling guilty and seeing yourself as “wrong,” is still the need to be “right.” Guilt is as much a choice as happiness. And if all your problems truly are O.K., as Wally Minto says in The Results Book, then isn’t it O.K. to let go of guilt and choose happiness?

In his book, Finding True Love, Chuck Spezzano says,

Your personality has been putting together your life story for years. Typically, it is filled with painful and heroic episodes all neatly tied together to prove what a good person you are….Our life stories are largely composites of victim and martyr stories. Suffering is a veiled form of attack and so this is a way of feigning innocence while attacking.

Notice that in order to suffer or be a victim, you’re automatically creating a story in which you are right and someone else is wrong; you are innocent and they’re not. If you truly desire to have a harmonious, loving, joyful life you must give up, forever, telling your victim story. Whether it’s from a long time ago or something recent. If you think you couldn’t possibly give that one up, or that your friends really want you to share your latest drama, let me tell you something I came to realize about our victim/martyr stories.

A few years ago I was invited by Ram Dass to attend one of his workshops. I had missed the original instructions given by Ram Dass, but I was told that each person in the group was to talk for 4 minutes and the rest of us were to listen without comment or expression. I was the seventh person out of eight, and I noticed that every single person was telling a victim story. So I thought that the point of the exercise was to tell your very best victim story. (It wasn’t until years later that I heard Ram Dass explaining this exercise on a tape and I discovered that it was an exercise on listening!)

In any case, I had this amazing realization. While listening to each person tell their “story,” what do you think I was thinking about? Did I care about everyone’s drama? No. 

I was waiting my turn! 

I was thinking about how I could make my story even better and more heart wrenching than anyone before me! And then it dawned on me. If I didn’t care about anyone else’s story, obviously nobody cared about my story, except me! And when you listen to someone tell their victim story, you are either waiting for your turn or you’re looking for approval.

Dr. Spezzano goes on to say this, “In general, we are all called to change the victim, tragic, horror and heartbreak stories into healing, happy and love stories.”

Obviously forgiveness is a key ingredient in telling a happy, healing story, but how do you forgive? You may say you’ve forgiven, you may even think you’ve forgiven; but what if you don’t feel forgiveness in your heart? What if you’re still carrying around anger and resentment? How do let go and truly forgive?

I was searching for an answer to those questions. I knew I wanted to forgive, but I didn’t know how until I read A Course in Miracles, which said something to this effect: “God knows that you don’t know how to forgive. Simply be willing to forgive and God will take care of the rest.” 

What an incredible relief it was to know that God Knew I didn’t know how to forgive!! And willingness was all that was required to align myself with Divine Intervention. Then it occurred to me, if God knew I didn’t know how to forgive, God also knew I didn’t know how to “let go” and certainly the same concept would apply. Suddenly I had a new way to PRAY! 

My prayers began with “I AM WILLING…” I am willing to forgive. I am willing to hear Love’s Voice in this matter. I am willing to release my anger or resentment (or whatever it may be that’s causing this upset).

“A Course in Miracles” says, ‘As forgiveness allows love to return to my awareness, I will see a world of peace and safety and joy.’ 

Now let’s go back to the 7-Day Mental Diet. Remember you cannot say or think anything negative. This not only involves your thoughts when you’re alone, it includes listening to anything negative. Whether it’s the news or someone gossiping or someone complaining about all that’s wrong in their life. This is a challenging aspect, because you must stand your ground, even when it would be much easier to just listen. The problem is that if you listen to negativity, you are essentially agreeing with the so-called reality of lack and limitation, and this is one of those unbreakable cosmic laws. You must continue attracting that reality to you. That is the law. Whatever you say is so, whatever you ‘agree’ with, based on thought, word and deed, is what you must experience. If you doubt that statement, look at the results in your life. Keeping in mind that worry and fear are the strongest forms of belief, is there anything you believe in which you do not experience? 

When I first tried the 7-Day Mental Diet, one negative thought after the next presented itself. But I stuck with it, and not only did the negative thoughts begin to come less and less, there actually came a time when I didn’t have to remind myself to let go, or be at peace. I simply felt the perfection in everything that was happening, without a second thought. The feeling of perfection, of God’s Presence in every person, every thing and every event will become second nature.

You may wonder what you can expect from working with this tape for 60 days. From my own experience, and that of others, you may experience anything from discomfort to major upheaval. But it’s necessary if you’re going to dislodge the old patterns in consciousness. 

In the book, “You Can Heal Your Life” by Louise Hay it says, “If you can feel it you can heal it.” Therefore, old, negative beliefs that have been buried in consciousness (but are experienced as painful episodes in your life!) must surface, as your feelings, in order to be recognized and released. This is why you don’t want to project your feelings onto another, as in “he makes me feel angry.” These are your feelings. Look at them. Allow your feelings to be your friends.

So far I’ve introduced you to some excellent problem solving tools, and you should have a better sense of how to focus on answers instead of problems. Now I’d like to introduce you to the idea of moving beyond ‘problem-solving’ and into Transformation! 

The most powerful way I learned to ‘awaken’ myself was through a deepened ‘awareness’ of God, which occurred when I began genuinely listening to God. This began as a ‘conversation’ with God and deepened into Communion. This requires no special talent or training, merely the desire to be fully present and to listen with your heart. “Ask and ye shall receive.” We are not separate from Universal Intelligence and Divine Love; it’s a part of our own Being. Ask a question; then quietly listen for the answer. You’ll know when you’re listening to God because the answer will be loving and compassionate: If “God is Love,” how could the answer be anything else?

Three elements are required for moving beyond ‘problem-solving’ and into Transformation. My definition of ‘Transformation’ is essentially the on-going experience of ‘Heaven on Earth.’

1. Communion with All that Is through Gratitude.

2. Conscious Awareness of Divine Love in All Things.

3. Nurturance of Life.

Communion with All that Is through Gratitude, is a conscious realization that everything in life is perfect for your growth, because every experience perfectly ‘mirrors’ your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes. Therefore whatever you’re experiencing is for your benefit. If there’s something you no longer care to experience, bless it and make a new choice. Pain comes from denying our own creations, because it isn’t what’s happening to you, but how you react to what’s happening that defines who you are and whether or not you live your life with joy. Consciously release whatever no longer serves you (“I’m willing to let this go…”) and focus your entire attention on Love (“I’m willing to be at Peace. I’m willing to feel Love’s Presence in my life.”)

Communion through gratitude is the heart-felt recognition that every moment of Life, without exception, is supporting your growth. It’s the understanding that every single experience is Divinely Orchestrated for your Highest Good, and for the Highest Good of all; regardless of the outward appearance. Gratitude is a vital aspect of love that powerfully establishes your relationship with God. If you are consistently grateful for everything in your life, without labeling anything ‘good’ or ‘bad, then you will experience God as supportive, and through this feeling of being Loved and Supported you will attract transformative experiences into your life.

In a recent communion with God I received information that made this very clear

Feel Love’s Presence! Love is closer than your own thoughts. Nothing is as it seems. NOTHING! Because everything is an interpretation; how you say it is. The way to change what you’re seeing is to listen to what Love says it is. You don’t have to understand a situation, because quite frankly it’s impossible to understand from your position. 

Imagine a chess set and a game is being played, but rather than being above observing all the pieces, you are one of the pieces: Whatever piece you choose to be – queen, king, pawn – it doesn’t matter. In fact every piece is a player. So there you are playing in the chess game of Life, trying to manipulate and negotiate, trying to win the game, when in fact, you have no perspective. Now imagine that God is on your side. Imagine that EVERYTHING is set up to win! (Really, who could beat God?) But there you are jumping up and down trying to direct traffic, yet you can’t see the forest through the trees –or the king through the pawns! As long as you’re focused on the board (external experiences) and the one’s around you, you’re going to feel frustrated sometimes, okay others and downright suicidal from time to time.

You may have a particular Knight in Shining Armor standing right next to you, and you become so enamored with him, you forget you’re playing a game! You move right into a place of wanting to fix him, wanting him to stay with you and keep you company forever and ever. 

Yet despite your perspective, the chess game continues, the Knight is moved, you think, “He left me,” and you are heart-broken (mainly because you think you’re not worth loving.) Or maybe you are moved and you feel guilty for leaving. 

Now try to understand that no one has ever left you, nor have you ever left anyone: God simply moved the players around! In chess you may ‘sacrifice’ one player for another in order to move into a better position to win. Remember the root of the word sacrifice is “to make sacred.” No matter how chaotic or repetitious, YOU ARE SACRED!! But you keep thinking, “God must not be paying attention!” Yet you say, “God is All-knowing, All-Powerful and Eternal. That God is All-Loving. Isn’t that what’s written in all the sacred texts, stated over and over by all the Masters?

Keep knowing that Every Moment of your life is Sacred, Divinely Orchestrated for your Highest Good and the Highest Good of All. And REMEMBER: God only plays Win/Win!!

Conscious Awareness of Divine Love in All Things is the absolute expectation that everything is exactly as it should be, serving its highest purpose, and in its fullest expression of Present Perfection. It is the expectation of Good. Saying, “It’s all good,” is the same as saying, “It’s all God.” It is the perception that Life is perfect in it’s expression, regardless of appearance, because Life flows from Perfection, and is an extension of God.

Conscious Awareness is ‘calling forth’ the perception of perfection in All Things. No matter what occurs, simply Observe, allow yourself to be the Silent Witness. Bless every event and call it ‘Perfect.’

When I first tried to be ‘Consciously Aware of Divine Love’ in All Things, I found myself unwilling to forgive, and ‘stuck’ in old patterns of judgment. So I simply asked Spirit for help, and here’s the answer I received: 

The only “blocks” are the blocks that stop you from feeling God’s love. You need go no further, simply choose to feel God’s love and your willingness clears all the blocks away. That’s all there is to it. Feel God’s love and everything else will fall into place.

What if you’re not stuck at all? What if you’re not blocked at all? What if you simply are being asked to embrace Present Perfection? Could it be that simple, that basic? Yes. What if everything is moving along according to Divine Plan? What if “blocks” are just a belief; part of Maya, the Illusion? What if ‘Be Here NOW’ means feel God’s love no matter what the circumstances may be? 

Be Conscious of God. Just stay conscious, ever-mindful. The choice to See and Feel God overrides any earthly blocks, issues, cellular memory, anything whatsoever, and you move directly into Grace, Divine intervention.

“Stuck” is a choice. Simply un-choose being stuck or blocked, and choose God. Keep saying to yourself, “I choose God, I choose Love, I choose Peace.” God, Love and Peace will choose you (As Always!) Say to yourself, “I am willing to feel and Experience that nothing can block me from God’s love, for I AM Love made manifest. I AM Divine Love in expression – God would not exist without me! 

If God could not exist without you, don’t you think that God is vitally aware of every event and every thought you have? The only problem is that you think if you’re not paying attention to God – then God’s not paying attention to you. “How could God be paying attention with an entire universe to run?”

This is because you see God in your image. You think you’re alone with all of your own little problems, that you have moments of In-Sight, but then it’s back to “reality.” When in fact, the IN-sight IS Reality, and what you call “reality” is something you “make up” every day.

This is a difficult thing to see for those who are goal-oriented. Even “manifesting” is a goal. The trick is to have no goals. FEEL GOD’S LOVE and simply Allow everything to fall into place! 

Love is in the dream and Love is in the nightmare. Love is gently asking each one to wake up and come Home. You will feel God’s love when you no longer outline what it should look like. All is Love! So a ‘block’ is Love in Action – How about that?! Resentment is Love in Action; guilt is Love in Action; victim-hood is Love in action!! How can this be? Because Every Thought, Idea or Event is there for the sole purpose of bringing you home.

Love is reflected in love: But understand this, Love is reflected in hate. When someone is ‘hateful,’ angry, resentful, they are actively learning about Love. They are learning what it feels like to forget themselves, their own dear, sweet, Sacred Self. When you can recognize Love in the midst of hatred, resentment, guilt etc; when you can see Love’s handy-work, no matter what has happened, then you will know with All Your Heart that you are never separate from God, never separate from Divine Love. Hatred is only a distortion of Love. See through the distortion and see Love Present in every moment, every activity and in every encounter. And it’s this recognition that allows the one feeling separate to come Home!

There are no ‘missed opportunities,’ no mistakes: God does not make mistakes. Even when you make a ‘mistake,’ Love did that!! Love is the reason that everything is as it is: Just stop trying to change Perfection!!

You look at the world and see chaos, and think, ‘That can’t be God – God’s not chaotic.’ But God IS chaotic: Love is chaotic. You’re just the one who thinks it should be different. Don’t you think it seems a bit chaotic to a caterpillar to turn into liquid before becoming a butterfly. If the caterpillar knew what was coming, do you think he’d ever spin a cocoon and be stupid enough to stay in there? Fortunately, caterpillars TRUST GOD and that’s why we have butterflies!!

Nurturance of Life is honoring that All Creation, from the Infinitesimal to the Infinite, is the expression of Expanding Intelligence flowing from God, Divine Love. We nurture life by observing without judgment, without an attachment to an outcome, and by being lovingly detached. This is living in a state of harmlessness. Or as Jesus said, ‘Returning blessing for cursing.’ This is harmlessness in thought, word and deed. When you are nurturing life, loving All that Is, you will naturally feel yourself in the Universal Flow of Goodness. You’ll consistently find yourself in the right place at the right time, attracting experiences of Abundance and Loving Support. This doesn’t mean you’ll never experience difficulties, it just means that you will move through them effortlessly and easily.

If you observe life as the flow of energy, then it is similar to rivers flowing to the sea. In the same way that water finds its way back to the ocean, all energy, even energy filled with negativity or malicious intent, is flowing outward, seeking higher expression. 

Nurturance of life is holding absolute clarity and the consistent intention to Be Here Now. Notice that if you are really present; not thinking about the past or projecting into the future, the only thing in this moment is Love. If you are having an experience that seems devoid of love, call Love forth, say to yourself, “I Am Willing to Feel Love’s Presence in this Moment.” Then simply observe as your reality begins to shift to include Love.

When I first began working with the idea of ‘calling Love forth’ I found that I’d often ‘forget’ that I knew a better way, and I’d be ‘thrown’ into an old emotional response, rather than asking Love to be Present. So I asked, “How do I stay conscious of unconditional love in the midst of an argument?”

Keep choosing Love. Keep choosing the Higher Path, the more loving solution. There are little, tiny choices you make every moment of each day. These choices don’t seem particularly important or life changing, and they’re not emotionally charged like an argument. They’re seemingly “little” choices like how do you choose to feel about whatever is popping into your mind? How do you feel when you think about someone being unfair? You cannot change what occurred, but you can change your perception of what happened in this moment. 

There is only one purpose in all relationships, and that is to remember that each relationship is sacred, because every relationship reveals you to your own sacred self. The only relationship you will ever have is your relationship with Me. It is your relationship with Divine Love, with Passionate Life, with Infinite, Unchanging Truth that creates your relationship with all Beings. Look for Me, Search for Me, Know Me in each and every encounter. See Me so powerfully that each one you touch feels this recognition and senses the memory of something deeply profound. See beyond the games, see beyond the players and see the Heart of the Beloved. Simply observe with Love.

Is it not easier to see another as not enough: To see what they lack, the lessons as yet unlearned, than to experience their grandeur?

Look to nature if you would be the non-judgmental witness. Creation moves at it’s own pace, it gives and takes, destroys and rebuilds, kills and creates: Yet you do not judge. It simply is what is so. And when you do try to pass judgment by “helping” the chick out of the egg or the butterfly from it’s cocoon, you kill the inhabitant. If you have learned to let nature take it’s course, if you can see that struggle is an integral part of growth, strength and beauty, why are you so afraid of your own struggle and why would you try to “save” another from their own struggle?

Only judgment sees through the eyes of futility or resentment or disinterest. Love embraces ALL as perfect. In birth and death, Love is there, ever-present, unchanging. Allow yourself to be devoured by the “enemy” and you will have nothing to do but come Home to Me.

In the same way that there is a “fine line between love and hate,” there is a fine line between dysfunction and mastery! First you learn to stop being the unconscious ‘victim,’ and then you learn to be the ‘willing victim.’ Why? Because in the jaws of the lion, in the teeth of the shark, in that moment of emotional death, you will come to know that Love is as infinite and eternal as you are. And an illusion will never be more or less than what it is, ‘false evidence appearing real.’

Death is only an appearance. You have rejected people who would harm you, walked away before more damage could be done, and this was perfect, it gave you strength and insight. Now try going down in flames and being the Phoenix rising from the ashes! Let the pain tear down the walls that you have built around your heart. Be crushed and burned until you have been refined in the Flame of Love. You are here, not to find ‘true love,’ but to transmute darkness into Light, anger into Peace, resentment into Kindness, and ignorance into Divine Wisdom.

If you allow yourself to ‘die’ instead of struggling to maintain your ‘position,’ you allow yourself and the other person to move more quickly out of pain and fear, and into your true compassionate nature. By not defending yourself, you create an opening for Love’s Presence. Right and wrong are meaningless and both contain elements of the other. It is in your defenselessness that the other person will be reminded of his true nature, which is loving, kind and compassionate. And by consistently choosing to be harmless, you will remember your true nature as well, regardless of the circumstances. Keep choosing to allow your ego to die (being harmless instead of needing to be ‘right’) and you will be choosing transformation through love.

If you consistently choose defenselessness and harmlessness in your thinking, as you go about your daily routine, this choice will create a new ‘pattern’ in your consciousness. You will naturally act from this conscious re-patterning, even when in conflict, because you will be practicing it daily.

Do you have any idea how many people pray to know Me, beg for My Love, plead for My Kindness and Compassion? Yet they continually are looking ‘out there’ hoping their prayers will be granted, that God will be merciful. YOU are God’s Mercy, BE MERCIFUL and experience yourself as mercy. Be compassionate and you will know Me in your Heart. Be passionate and know Me in your Life. BE all that you ask for and it will be granted!

You cannot know Me fully until you have walked through the fiery furnace, been cast into the lion’s den and crucified upon the cross. For it is only in knowing your darkest hour and your willingness to die to all that is unreal, that you will come to Life Eternal, Love Everlasting. Abide in the Secret Place of the Most High and you shall rise on the wings of eagles.

(End of communication.)

In the spring of 1999 I discovered something that powerfully changed my life. A friend loaned me an audio series by Wayne Dyer called, Manifest Your Destiny (which I highly recommend). The very last tape explained the “how to” of manifesting. 

Here’s a very brief explanation: If you think of the 3rd dimension as a “vibration,” it’s rather slow and heavy in comparison to the dimension or vibration of desires and ideas. What is between these two dimensions (or vibrations) is the vibration of sound. Sound can be consciously used to bring our desires into manifestation. The universal sound of attraction is Ah (as in God, Allah, Jehovah). The universal sound of gratitude is Om. These sounds are sung on one note (this is also called “toning”). Technically speaking, Ah is sung for 20 minutes in the morning and Om for 20 minutes in the evening (the most powerful times being sunrise and sunset) and right before bed sing “shalom” which is the combination of the two. However, any amount of time toning is great, and you can even do this in the car while commuting. A clear intention is all that is required. My favorite way to meditate is lying down, and if I fall asleep, it’s all that much better!

In my case, I discovered that I’d sing Ah in the morning and forget to sing Om at night. Then I’d feel a bit guilty for forgetting to be grateful! So I devised my own system where I’d sing Ah and Om on the same breath so I’d be guaranteed to accomplish attraction and gratitude all at once! (That may not be technically correct, but the Universe ALWAYS understands our intentions.)

I had something I wanted to manifest, but five minutes into this “singing meditation” I thought, “What if this isn’t in my best interest?” And then I suddenly remembered something Wayne Dyer said earlier on the tape: “The difference between the average person and the enlightened master, is the average person is at peace some of the time; the enlightened master is at peace all the time.”

Then it hit me: No matter what I desired; a job, a relationship, a home, all of it’s meaningless, and potentially painful, if there isn’t a foundation of peace. And if I was deeply at peace, then everything else would have a way of working out effortlessly and easily. So I took the easy way out. I didn’t try to figure anything out, I simply decided I would do nothing more than hold an intention for peace. No matter what I thought I wanted or needed, no matter what bills needed paying, I kept holding the feeling of peace. 

Then I came across an audio series called Sound Body Sound Mind by Andrew Weil. Subliminally woven into the music is the sound the brain makes when in the delta state, the deepest state of meditation. In the delta state, one can experience spontaneous healing. And with this sound subliminally in the music, the listener’s brain will automatically entrain to it and move naturally into a state of meditation without so much as a conscious thought. Andrew Weil suggests that the listener simply hold an intention while listening to the music, and says there’s no need to “try” to meditate since your brain waves will automatically entrain with the subliminal delta sounds. (There is an entire tape dedicated to this explanation, so this is intended to just give you a brief idea of what’s behind the music.)

I was particularly drawn to a part of the tape called “The Deep,” which is all musical tones with no melody (it’s also the “deepest” part of the subliminal meditation music). Then one evening while listening to “The Deep,” it occurred to me to start singing the Ah’s and Om’s with the tones. In five minutes I moved into one of the deepest states of meditation I had ever experienced! As I shared this with friends I discovered that it didn’t matter whether a person was advanced or brand new to meditation, everyone had an amazing experience.

I didn’t fully understand why this toning mediation to music worked so well until I read the book, The Mozart Effect by Don Campbell, which says:

"All forms of vocalization…can be therapeutic, but I have found that nothing rivals toning. Toning oxygenates the body, deepens breathing, relaxes the muscles, and stimulates the energy flow. When performed by a voice rich in timbre, toning will massage and tune up the entire body…. One of the simplest ways to calm your mind, stabilize the rhythms in your body, and improve your voice is through toning or humming….

Ah The ah sound immediately evokes a relaxation response. 

Oh The oh and om sounds are considered the richest of all by many people who tone or chant.

Five minutes of oh can change the skin temperature, muscle tension, brain waves, and breath and heart rates. It is a great tool for an instant tune-up."

The following is a ten-minute excerpt from a portion of ‘Sound Body Sound Mind.’ In a moment you’ll hear me singing with “The Deep” to give you an idea of how to tone with the music. It’s not necessary to follow my voice exactly, in fact, you can choose any note that’s comfortable for you, and the duration of your singing and breathing is individual as well. I love to wake up a bit early and do this meditation before I get out of bed. I fall asleep singing as well, holding the intention of peace and gratitude. I’d suggest that once you understand how to do this singing-meditation, you purchase a copy of ‘Sound Body Sound Mind’ so you can have the full benefit of the subliminal background.