I recently interviewed Pamela Jo McQuade about her new book Spiritually Rich and Sexy: A Woman’s Guide to Becoming Infinitely Attractive
For more information on Pamela and her book, visit her web site at http://spiritualityissexy.com/.
I recently interviewed Viki King, consultant and best-selling author of How to Write a Movie in 21 Days – The Inner Movie Method. Our conversation topics ranged from her reaction when she found out her book appeared in two Sopranos episodes, advice she has for filmmakers trying to make a movie that will reach a large audience and her experience working on spiritual entertainment projects as a gifted Oracle.
Viki also gave me a sample of some of her consulting services. She gives consultations on Healing the Hollywood Heart, Help from High Places, Weight Loss and general life counsel. I asked her what advice she would give me if I had a consultation with her and asked her how I could attract abundance and money into my life right now. Her answer really resonated with me and helped me shift the way I looked at what I could offer people and how to articulate that in a way that makes sense.
You can listen to her complete answer and our entire conversation by clicking the play button.
You can also read some highlights of our interview which are copied below.
For more information about Viki King and how you can get a consultation with her or sign up for an upcoming teleconference she has called “The Movie in Your Heart”, please visit her web site at www.VikiKing.com. Her “Movie in Your Heart” teleconference will be for anyone who is considering writing a book or screenplay or for anyone who has written a screenplay or book and how they can take their idea to the next level.
Matthew Welsh: Can you talk a little bit about the inner movie method. What is it?
Viki King: “The inner movie method turns on the inner projector at your heart and it allows that you watch the movie that is in your heart in your head. So you are doing something that is very, very familiar, watching a movie. This time you are watching a movie that is very, very familiar deep within you. This is a way of connecting what is deeply what you wish to bring forth with a skill set that you have that is natural and so easy that you can even eat popcorn while you are doing it. So, the combination of bringing those two elements together allows that you easily role out with the truth with the real heartbeat of what your film is within you.”
Had a great chat about spiritual entertainment and conscious content with Melissa Laine from Conscious Content TV!…Check out the video of our conversation below where we talk about some of our favorite spiritual movies and the challenges of creating conscious content.
Kellee Maize is a rapper whose latest album, Aligned Archetype, has been downloaded over 300,000 times. With songs titled Something Sacred, Third Eye and Revival of the 5th Son, Kellee raps about topics ranging from meditation, creating our reality and aligning with our archetypes…
I recently had a chance to interview Kellee about her music. She shared with me how she incorporates conscious spirituality and activism in her songs, what artists inspired her and also offered some straightforward advice for other musicians trying to get their work out to a larger audience.
You can listen to our interview by clicking the play button. You can also watch her new music video for “Start None” from YouTube posted below.
Discover the Gift—the movie, the book, and the movement—began more than four years ago in a moment of illumination. It has grown into a project with one goal: to help people find the power to transform our world.
Discover the Gift feature-length documentary was created by award-winning filmmaker Demian Lichtenstein, with his sister, Shajen Joy Aziz. The movie celebrates the basic but vital reality that there are Gifts in each person, and in all circumstances, that are simply awaiting discovery.
Framed by the touching personal narrative of siblings Lichtenstein and Aziz as they describe their own journeys toward joy, power, fulfillment, freedom, and unconditional love, Discover The Gift offers powerful lessons from authors, educators, activists, artists, and icons including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Jack Canfield, Terry Tillman, David `Avocado` Wolfe, Mark Victor Hansen, and Niurka.
I recently had a chance to interview the co-creators of Discover the Gift, Demian Lichtenstein and his sister, Shajen Joy Aziz. In our candid conversation, they talked about why they created Discover the Gift, the reaction it has received, and their own personal journeys.
For example, Shajen shared with me that she asked her brother Demian a very direct question about when his work was going to match the powerful transformation she was noticing within him. She bluntly asked him:
“When is the man I know going to start to do that same kind of work in the world?”
Shajen added that she was seeing a big shift in Demian, yet the work he was doing wasn’t matching who he had become and who he IS internally so she asked him when that shift was going to happen.
Demian told me that that question set him into a journey of discovery and eventually helped inspire him to create a project, book and movie that would transform the world– Discover the Gift.
Throughout the rest of the interview Demian and Shajen share with me what it was like to create a transformational film, the reaction it received from Hollywood filmmakers at its premiere at Sundance Film Festival and the type of impact that movies and media can have on people.
After speaking with Demian and Shajen, it is obvious that Discover the Gift will inspire people from all backgrounds, cultures and belief systems to find their own unique gifts and offer them to the world.
You can listen to our entire interview by clicking the button below
Kellee Maize is a rapper whose latest album, Aligned Archetype, has been downloaded over 300,000 times. With songs titled Something Sacred, Third Eye and Revival of the 5th Son, Kellee raps about topics ranging from meditation, creating our reality and aligning with our archetypes…
I recently had a chance to interview Kellee about her music. She shared with me how she incorporates conscious spirituality and activism in her songs, what artists inspired her and also offered some straightforward advice for other musicians trying to get their work out to a larger audience.
You can listen to our interview by clicking the play button. You can also watch her music video for “Something Sacred” from YouTube posted below.
In 1920, at the age of 27, Paramahansa Yogananda left his home in India to travel to the United States as India’s delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals convening in Boston. That same year, he founded the Self-Realization Fellowship to spread his teachings on India’s ancient practices and philosophy of Kriya Yoga and meditation. In 1924, Paramahansa Yogananda engaged in a cross-continental speaking tour giving lectures on Self-Realization, yoga and meditation. His work led to meetings with an American President, Mahatma Gandhi and Nobel-winning physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. In 1946, he published Autobiography of a Yogi which has been translated into 25 languages and designated as one of the “100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century” by a panel of spiritual authors convened by Philip Zaleski and HarperCollins publishers.
Today, the Self-Realization Fellowship is headquartered in Los Angeles and has meditation centers and temples across the world, including Self-Realization Lake Shrine Fellowship where a portion of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes are encased. I recently had a chance to speak with Brother Satyananda, a Monastic Monk at Paramahansa Yogananda’s Self-Realization Fellowship and minister-in-charge at Lake Shrine.
In our conversation, we talk about what Brother Satyananda’s daily life is like, the challenges of being a Monastic Monk at the Self-Realization Fellowship and how Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings on meditation can help people today…Brother Satyananda also shared with me some practical advice he gives people who come to him who are facing extreme financial distress such as unemployment or loss of income….
You can listen to our entire interview by clicking the play button below. For more information about Lake Shrine you can visit http://www.lakeshrinetemple.org/
The article below is a guest post written by Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction
What does it take to manifest the love of your life? I’ve heard from first-time brides (at 49 and older!), from busy entrepreneurs whose 80-hour-a-week work schedules left little time for romance, and from divorcees and widowers who were convinced that the opportunity for true love had long passed them by. Whether these soulmate success stories come from Russia, Ireland, Spain, South Korea, Nova Scotia, Poland, Iran, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Norway, or the good ‘ole U.S. of A., I can always spot the common theme woven throughout them. Those who have successfully manifested their soulmates did so by finding a healthy balance between intending and allowing; between doing and being.
Not only did they do the necessary work; they made soulmate lists, they cleaned up the emotional baggage still lingering from past relationships, and they made space for their beloved’s presence in every area of their lives. But they also cultivated a state of what the Buddhists call “Beginner’s Mind”. They carried out manifestation exercises and rituals with an attitude of openness, eagerness, and an absence of preconceptions. Even if their hearts were still aching from a past breakup or their present circumstances were less than ideal, they didn’t allow themselves to fall into the common trap of thinking that they’d already done and tried everything, and therefore nothing new would work for them. They stayed open to the possibilities and remained hopeful, not defeated.
Occasionally I receive stories from people who fall into this latter category, from men and women who are frustrated because they’ve been actively “searching” for their soulmates without success. The theme of their stories is equally easy to detect. It goes something like this: I’ve watched ‘The Secret,’ I’ve made my list of qualities that I want my ideal man or woman to possess. It’s been almost a year and he/she still hasn’t shown up! The energetic signal being sent through these messages practically jumps off the page and, let’s just say, it’s not one of irresistible attraction!
Becoming a successful manifestor – whether you want to manifest love, money, a new career, or simply a parking space – requires a certain level of emotional maturity. Great manifestors have learned the art of managing their thoughts and emotions so that even when doubt, fear or other limiting feelings pop up, they are not swept into a spiral of negativity. Developing this kind of mental discipline requires us to make a deliberate choice to focus our attention on what we desire rather than on what we don’t want.
For example, whenever I catch myself dwelling in a negative or unpleasant thought or feeling, I say to myself “cancel-cancel,” and I then intentionally create a new vision for myself. Sometimes this simple shift in perception is all I need, and other times I reach into my toolkit of emotional release techniques and dedicate five or ten minutes to working through my mini-issue so that my creative energies stay aligned with the outcome I desire.
As someone who is consciously focused on manifesting your soulmate, you too must recognize the powerful influence your thoughts and feelings have on your point of attraction, and do your best to keep them positive. I know; the process of magnetizing your soulmate can get discouraging at times. But if you’re approaching it from the mindset of “it’s been a year and it still hasn’t happened,” you’re living in the reality of what’s missing. The universe simply can’t add more love to your life when you’re focused on the love you don’t have. Like the old tale of the farmer pulling up the newly planted seed to search for evidence of growth, the very act of “searching” evokes a feeling of desperation that blocks the natural flow of love. But if you can shift your focus to magnetizing your soulmate rather than “looking” for him or her; and if you can adjust your emotional state from impatience to savoring the waiting, love will blossom in its own time, and in colors and fragrances that will both surprise and delight you.
Those who successfully manifest love have learned and surrendered to the fact that it’s not our job to know where or how our soulmate will appear. We don’t have to micromanage every encounter or anticipate every detail. Our job is to simply prepare ourselves in body, mind, and soul and then relax into the knowledge that the one we’ve asked for – wherever he or she may be at this moment – is on the way.
Your soulmate is on the way to you from wherever he or she is right now. The details are not yours to coordinate. Your job is simply to love yourself, enjoy your life as it unfolds in each moment, hold a clear intention of the love you are manifesting, and have faith in the unseen forces that are even now guiding the fulfillment of your dream.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Arielle Ford about her book The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction
In our interview, Arielle offers practical steps you can take today to begin to attract your soulmate, explains why some people struggle to find their true love and talks about how her 80-year-old mother in law used the techniques in the book to manifest a soulmate 5 years after her husband of 55 years passed away. You can listen to our 15 minute interview by clicking the play button above.
About Arielle Ford
Arielle believes that finding true love is possible for anyone, at any age, and she points to herself as living proof. Married for the first time at age 44, she expanded on the set of skills that she used to launch her highly successful Public Relations firm, The Ford Group, and applied them to her love life. She is best known for helping to launch the careers of many bestselling self-help and spiritual authors including Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Neale Donald Walsch and many others. She is the author of seven books including the international bestselling The Soulmate Secret: How To Manifest The Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction. Arielle lives in La Jolla, CA with her husband, Brian Hilliard and their feline friends. Learn more about Arielle at www.arielleford.com and www.soulmatesecret.com.
Arielle along with Claire Zammit, co-creator of the acclaimed Calling in “The One” telecourse will host a free online teleseries called “The Ultimate Soulmate Summit” to help 100,000 people magnetize their Soulmate next Valentine’s Day!
Twenty of the world’s leading relationship experts including Dr. Helen Fisher, Drs. Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks, Alison Armstrong, Debbie Ford, Katherine Woodward Thomas, Christian Carter, and others will lead participants through the process of attracting a Soulmate over the 10 days of the summit. www.ultimatesoulmatesummit.com
Last week I spoke to Guy Finley about his new book, The Courage to Be Free: Discover Your Original Fearless Self
Our conversation really dives into the tough questions such as why people are motivated by fear, how we can overcome our fears (even if we are facing the prospect of foreclosure, financial difficulties or an unsatisfying career) and even his thoughts on the relationship between fear and beauty…
That was really an eye-opening part of the conversation for me. Guy told me that when we are in a state of fear, then we can never appreciate beauty in our life because we are living in a state of resistance. That really made me realize how much we miss out on in life when we let our self be guided by our fears. Alternatively, when we choose to let go of our fear then we become open to possibilities that would not exist by giving in to our fears.
You can listen to our who conversation by clicking the button below
Guy is also giving away a free self realization starter kit to anyone if you click here.
In 1970, at the age of only 19, Radhanath Swami left his home in America seeking adventure and spiritual knowledge. After trekking across Europe for months, he reached his long hoped for destination: India, where he lived for many years as a wandering monk. This led him to encounters with spiritual teachers such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the Dalai Lama and also took him on an adventure filled spiritual experiences and meetings with other interesting people.
Throughout Radhanath’s journeys, he learned the value of a life devoted to God and also felt a strong desire to help relieve suffering. One result of this has been that for the past twenty years he has initiated a number of acclaimed social action programs including Midday Meals, which feeds more than 200,000 plates of nutritious vegetarian food to indigent children daily; missionary hospitals and eye camps; eco-friendly farms, schools and ashrams; and a number of emergency relief programs throughout India.
Radhanath Swami recounted his story, which is filled with bizarre characters, mystical experiences, and dangerous adventures in his recently published memoir, “The Journey Home – Autobiography of an American Swami.”
I recently had the chance to interview Radhanath Swami. He shared with me what it was like living in India with no money as a wandering monk — including a scary encounter he had with a mongoose that crawled up his back. This led to a conversation about suffering where he talked about how he responded to the initial suffering he felt when the mongoose crawled on him and then fell asleep on him. 
He talked about how we can find meaning in suffering if we look for ways that it can help us grow and become more connected to God. He also shared with me how his meeting with Mother Teresa, Dalai Lama and other spiritual teachers inspired him to engage in community service projects to help relieve other people’s suffering….
You can listen to our entire conversation by clicking the button below.
You can purchase “The Journey Home” on Amazon by clicking here
