Michael Beckwith’s PBS special will begin airing nationally this March. In this TV special, he shares five steps to help individuals achieve greater harmony and happiness in their lives by connecting with their spiritual nature. He also teaches us how to manifest positive results, establish stronger connections with people, forego worry and negative projections and ultimately empower ourselves to enjoy life to its fullest.
To learn more, watch program excerpts and music videos, get local PBS airdates and receive free downloads, visit http://www.the-answer-is-you.com/
Wayne Dyer will showcase his latest book, The Shift, on QVC this weekend March 5-7th. During the show, you will have an opportunity to call in and talk to Wayne about his new book.
In his newsletter today, Wayne writes about The Shift and says, “As we contemplate leaving the morning of our life, where ego has played a commanding role, and entering the afternoon (and evening), where meaning and purpose replace ambition and struggle, we may encounter occurrences that accompany this new direction. It’s almost a universal law that we’ll experience a fall of some kind. Yet these falls or low points provide the energy we need to move away from ego and into a life of meaning and purpose.”
In celebration of the release of Wayne Dyer’s new book, The Shift, Hay House is offering you the chance to win a trip to Maui to see Dr. Dyer live. If you purchase the book from QVC and give them you’re order number, you will be automatically entered to win. For more information on this offer you can click here.
Wayne Dyer’s QVC television special will air on March 5th at 10 pm PT, March 6th at 1 am ET, 8 am PT, 11 am ET and March 7th at 4pm PT and 7pm ET.
In spite of recently being diagnosed with leukemia, Dr. Wayne Dyer is staying true to his message of the power of positive thinking. Last night ABC News aired their interview with Wayne Dyer in which ABC insinuated that positive thinking could be dangerous psycho-babble because some believe positive thinking leads to people blaming themselves for negative events in their life. Wayne Dyer responded to this critique by explaining that when bad things happen to us in life, positive thinking can help us overcome those obstacles and lead to spiritual breakthroughs that would not have occurred in the absence of the obstacles.
Wayne Dyer not only talks the talk, but he also walks the walk. His personal response to having leukemia inspires peace and optimism because he says having leukemia is not going to cause him to worry. He says he lives a worry free life and believes positive thinking helps him create more peaceful circumstances and increases the likelihood of others creating health and happiness.
ABC News posted their interview with Wayne Dyer on their website. You can watch the entire interview if you visit http://abcnews.go.com/WN/DanHarris/
ABC News will air an hour long TV special in May, or sooner, on positive thinking. It will include people against it and people in favor of it such as Dr. Joe Vitale, Rev. Michael Beckwith and Bob Proctor.
Last week, ABC News journalist Dan Harris visited Joe Vitale’s home to interview him on The Secret, the Law of Attraction, James Ray and the entire self-help movement. Joe said that Dan Harris “is an exceptional man with an amazing ability to ask questions,” but that he also asked tough questions. For example, Dan asked Joe, “You actually charge $5,000 for your Rolls-Royce Mastermind?” and “You sleep at night selling self-help books?”
They also had an interesting conversation where Dan encouraged Joe to try to appear on the David Letterman show. Joe posted that conversation on his blog which you can read if you click here.
Below is video footage of ABC News visiting Joe Vitale’s house.
Past Life is a new TV show about an unlikely pair of past-life detectives who investigate whether what is happening today is the result of who you were before. It was inspired by M.J. Rose’s book, “The Reincarnationist” and will premiere on Fox tomorrow, Tuesday (Feb. 9), at 9/8c after American Idol.
I had a chance to interview M.J. Rose about the Past Life TV series and the challenges of turning her book, “The Reincarnationist,” into a TV show. You can read highlights of our interview below or listen to our complete conversation by clicking on the play button.
Matt Welsh: So tell us a little bit about Past Life. What’s the TV show about?
M.J. Rose: Well, the novel, The Reincarnationist, has at its heart an institute called the Phoenix Foundation where a group of reincarnationists work mostly with children helping them work with their present day crises that are based on past life problems…Warner Brothers found the book and read it. They were very interested in the idea of the foundation that studied past lives and saw that as a potential jumping off point for a TV show. So, they optioned the book and they wrote a script….They took that foundation and changed it a little so it would work for TV and added some different characters for it and that’s what the show is about. So every week…the people at the foundation work on a different case with a different person who has present day issues that really have past life roots.
Matt Welsh: What were some of the challenges of turning your book into a TV show?
M.J. Rose: The executive producer and I worked for a little while on a list of all different past life stories. In all the research I did, what were some of the great stories I heard. You know, somebody who felt like they were being suffocated in their present life and did a past life regression and found out they had been buried in a tomb in Ancient Egypt. Just like a really long list of that to show the people at Warner Brothers just how rich a field it was. Basically you could find any problem in the present and come up with a past life reason for it existing. But (Warner Brothers) was interested in focusing on crimes and crisis problems. So, we did that list and (Warner Brothers) was excited by the potential.
Then (Warner Brothers) found this brilliant writer, David Hudgins, who had been a writer for Friday Night Lights and for Everwood. They gave David the book and they said we are interested in developing this. Would this be something you would be interested in?… And, David told me the story. It was very synchronistic or karmic because he really didn’t know much about reincarnation at the time, but his wife had just seen the show on Oprah and had just become really fascinated by it. So, when he showed her the book, she was like all “…I’m really into reincarnation and that’s so interesting.” So, he read the book and saw the potential and he became the writer and the executive producer. So, he and Lou Pitt went to work on creating the show.
In general, the challenge is that you can’t turn a book into a TV show. You can turn a book into a movie more likely, but a TV show has its own requirements. It’s going to be week after week…What was exciting was that David really took the issues at the heart of the book and was really inspired by it, but turned it into something that is very much his own and his own vision.
And, I love it. It’s really a great show. The pilot episode is something that television usually isn’t. It’s fast paced and a tear jerker and very emotional. There aren’t a lot of shows on TV that are very emotional that are dramas and that have action in them. So, I think that even if viewers are not interested in reincarnation, they are going to be really excited by the format and the quality of the writing and the acting and the story.
Matt Welsh: When does the show premiere and where can we go for more information on the show?
M.J. Rose: It will premiere on Fox, Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 9/8c after America Idol. After the premiere, subsequent airings of Past Life will be broadcast on Thursdays beginning February 11, 2010 during the 9/8c timeslot. For more information you can visit www.MJRose.com or my blog on reincarnation at www.reincarnationist.org
Dan Woolley can thank an iPhone App for helping him survive the Haiti earthquake. He was in his hotel room relaxing when the earthquake destroyed the hotel and caused him to be stuck underground. He got into a nearby elevator to protect himself and tried to stop the bleeding in his leg and head. He found an iPhone App that had advice for treating excessive wounds and used that information to limit his bleeding.
However, he was still trapped underneath the collapsed hotel. After a couple days of waiting in the elevator, he was not sure if he would be rescued. So, he wrote a goodbye letter to his family. His note told them,
“…Don’t be upset at God. He always provides for His children even in hard times. I’m still praying that God will get me out, but He may not. But, even so, He will always take care of you…”
Eventually, Dan Woolley was rescued after being trapped for about 60 hours.
The words that Dan uses in his goodbye letter to his family can become a very effective prayer. Dan was doing everything he could think of to use his thoughts, prayers and actions to try to get rescued, while still remaining committed to having a deep faith and trust that God would take care of of things.
Some people describe this mindset as surrendering. Surrendering does not mean giving up. It means that we do everything we can think of to try to improve our situation, but know that if we have truly done our best, then we can surrender the outcome over to a Higher Power, accept the result and trust that in doing so we are somehow serving a Higher Purpose, even if we don’t understand quite how.
Susan Boyle’s audition video for the reality TV show, Britain’s Got Talent, was the most watched YouTube video of 2009 with over 120 million viewings, more than three times higher than the second most popular video uploaded to YouTube.
Her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” on the show catapulted her from an unemployed church choir singer to an international media sensation. She almost did not audition for Britain’s Got Talent, but a former coach persuaded her to go out for the show despite Susan’s belief that “…she was too old and that it was a young person’s game.”
Susan Boyle released her first album in November 2009. It debuted as the number one best-selling CD on the charts around the globe.
Lisa Nichols’ new TV show premieres THIS Tuesday. Lisa has co-authored two best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul books and starred in The Secret. Now she has her very own 1-hour television show called Breakthrough.
Her new TV show, Breakthrough, premieres on Tuesday, December 15, 10 p.m. Eastern, 9 p.m. Central, and 7 p.m. Pacific, on the WE television network. She enters the lives of real people and in 30 days or less takes them from broken down to breaking through. She helps them overcome personal problems and help them radically transform their lives.
James Van Praagh is featured in a new television series on the E! channel titled Psychic Hollywood: The Search for Truth.
According to James Van Praagh’s newsletter,
“In this one-hour special, five celebrities with very different issues search for help from very different psychics. Actress/producer Alana Stewart, Farrah Fawcett’s long-time friend and confidant, turns to medium James Van Praagh to answer questions that have been weighing her on her since Fawcett’s death in June 2009. During the meeting with James, Alana is shocked to hear him speak about things only she and Farrah shared.”
For more information you can visit the E! Channel website www.eonline.com
James will also be interviewed on the late-night comedy talk show, Chelsea Lately tonight, Monday December 7 11:00 pm ET/PT on the E! Channel
Men of a Certain Age, a new TV show that will premiere this Monday December 7 on TNT will ask these questions.
Starring Emmy Award winners Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond) and Andre Braugher (Homicide:Life on the Street) and Golden Globe winner Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap), Men of A Certain Age is a new original series that takes a wry look at the bond between three men in their 40s who are lifelong friends — reconsidering whether or not their dreams are worth chasing.
