Archive for September, 2005

What this book’s about
The author has “whispered” to thousands of babies in her career. Here she shares with us the language of babies along with her methods for getting back to a normal life. The methods are used with love and respect for the child as a valuable human being.

What’s good about this book
This book has some great information on communicating with your baby; from the ways you can tell what your baby needs to how to talk to your baby and treat him or her like a real person. Believe it or not babies can put themselves to sleep without being rocked or anything else. I stayed with my daughter for a few minutes until she was settled down for sleep. She seemed to like this but you need to learn what works best for you and your family through intuition and experimentation of the methods she recommends.

What I didn’t like/would change/wouldn’t recommend about this book
I would recommend NOT using a pacifier. I had a nightmarish experience using a pacifier. I had decided not to use one before I read this book but tried one on the advice of the author. This was a mistake for me.

Especially good sections to read
There are several good breakout boxes on the margins of this book and I would recommend checking them out. The ones I found the most useful were the ones on the stages of sleep and the stages of waking up.

What you can skip
Nothing

When to get this book
Get this book before the baby is born so you know what to do right away. Having things set up before the baby comes can save you time and frustration

Final comments
Utilizing this book will help you to realize the true wonder of your child as you are able to recognize their wonderful contribution to your life and our world instead of wondering what you were thinking when you decided to have kids.

View book details at Amazon.com: Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

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I realized
I was called to be a healer in this world at this time. The realization was an epiphany for me in the weeks before I birthed my drum. I had the desire and I was ready to begin my healing practice but I felt my skills were incomplete. There was a piece missing, a skill set I still needed to learn. After making my drum I saw the show Spirit the 7th Fire and I began to think the missing piece might be found among the Shaman. I contacted my drumming instructor about possibly going to some events where I might encounter some Shaman and therefore my next step. I put it out to the Universe that I was ready. Low and behold, a day or so later I was in the Kimberton Whole Food Store and while walking past a display of books one seemed to jump out at me. It had a bright blue cover, the color of the sky. In fact, it was the sky behind the picture of the author. I took another look and saw this beautiful, healthy looking blonde with long flowing hair and a white outfit. I heard the words in my head, “This is it”. I said, “You’ve got to be joking. Forget it.” I was so certain that my next piece would come through the natives of this land (formerly misnamed “Indians” or “Native Americans”) that the truth took me by surprise. It’s not that I was against this person (I had never heard of her) I was just surprised that it was someone who looked so much like me (European). I walked past it and continued on with my shopping. The second time I walked by it I heard the same thing but with a little more insistence in the tone. I said, "Oh, all right" as I sometimes do when I admit I’m resisting, and I got the book. I bought it right there. I didn’t even try to get it cheaper online! Well, was I ever surprised! I finished the book in only four days, all 274 pages.

The book is delivered in two parts
Part one is Doreen’s story followed by “…scientific studies and methods that will help you regain your spiritual vision and abilities.” She hopes to inspire others to heed the inner voice telling them they are lightworkers. It includes a way to tell if you are called to be a lightworker and other tools to help you on your path. I began to face my own calling to be a lightworker and my nighttime dreams started to change. I practiced the method for clearing the chakras and noticed a smell after each chakra was cleared, an indication to me of how deeply it was working. (Don’t expect a smell from yourself. Everyone releases stuck energy in different ways. The smell is one way my body releases and has done so for more than ten years.) I was on my way to developing the next level of my healing tools and preparing to open my practice.

It’s amazing
how we can help or hinder ourselves with our own lifestyle choices. Doreen points out some changes we can make to clear our avenues of communication with the Divine, for that is where the information to heal others is coming from. Changes made gently, in a ‘one-step-at-a-time’ pace will be more lasting. Always be gentle and loving with yourself. I was left with a couple of questions which I posed on Doreen’s website and found that we can use the methods she shares to heal ourselves as well as our clients and Mother Earth. The other thing is, the more we use these techniques the better we get at them.

Suggestion to the Author
I would find it very helpful to have a companion workbook to help us practice these techniques and suggestions for who to practice them on and when to practice them. The book would also benefit from an index. Some tips for using these techniques on ourselves would also be helpful.

Comments
I highly recommend this book if you feel called to be a lightworker.

View book details at Amazon.com: The Lightworkers Way

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This review was written while I was reading the book so it is written like journal entries. -Dawn
I am reading Neale Donald Walsch’s new book Tomorrow’s God. The book is written in two parts. The first part tells us the difference between yesterday’s god and tomorrow’s god. A little way into the second half of the book Neale addresses the issue of how politics will change when the world adopts the belief in tomorrow’s god. I was struck by the analogy of our current government with a dictatorship. After finishing the segment I rushed to my computer to transcribe my thoughts. We are giving away our freedoms and why? Fear, plain and simple. It is described very eloquently in the book.

Freedom
Once the message of freedom gets out and people decide they want freedom again, we will once again create the experience of freedom. It is happening now, all over the world. The former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and many other places have already done this and so it will happen in the United States. It will happen in the United States. I hadn’t realized it was coming to that. People have been predicting for years that there would be a major shift in government. Here is their proof, here is their hope, and here is their message in a bottle. We are moving toward a place of self-governance, we are moving into being a highly evolved civilization. Rise to the challenge! To paraphrase Paramahansa Yogananda: improve yourself and you will improve thousands, more than your words can ever do. Your good example will help others to change their own behaviors.

The end of the old and beginning of the new
For years many have been predicting the end of the world. Signs were beginning to manifest. Some things predicted were coming to pass. Many couldn’t wait for them to happen so the world could become a “better place”. They were willing to go through the “fire”, just to get to a better life and the “party” on the other side. And a party was what was predicted. I guess it was supposed to be your reward for making it through. I was one of the ones waiting and willing for the world to collapse in order to change. I didn’t see any other way that it was going to happen. There I was waiting for the predictions to manifest. There I was waiting for the world to collapse as in The Day After Tomorrow before a new world could be born, Phoenix-like out of the ashes. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

A potential future that works
Through other books Neale is bringing to light a potential future, one in which everything “works” and it works for everyone. WOW!! To think we don’t have to go through mass destruction and devastation and earth changes where millions are killed and the face of the planet changes drastically for us to have the world we want! We can start changing now by individually changing the way we do things and the things we believe. I am inspired and energized with what I am reading! I feel myself changing as I read the words, conceive of the possibilities and live into the beliefs. I am acting, thinking and interacting differently in my every day life, instantaneously. It’s almost like the ideas are presented in such a way that they are rewiring me on many levels. And it’s not just the words. There is more here. I don’t know if I can language it but I’ll try. It’s like I am accessing another dimension of myself that already has this information. It’s like I already know this on some level, I already learned it but didn’t know what any of it meant and was told that some day, when I was ready, I would understand and now I am finding it is all coming back to me in vivid understanding when I didn’t know what it meant before. I’ve got it! It’s an uncovering, a revealing of something I already knew and believed at a very deep level. WOW!!

Feeling gratitude
I feel my heart chakra expanding and I feel deeply moved and deeply grateful to Neale who chose to be the voice to bring this through and to all those who will help make this “new world” and “new spirituality” a reality. I almost didn’t want to start this web site. I desperately wanted it to grow into its potential and do all kinds of wonderful things for people but I thought it would all end with “the end of the world as we know it” and it was almost more than I could bear. At this juncture I now know that this review will hallmark the opening of the Dawn of a New Day website. What better place to begin then with the beginning of the New Spirituality! And I hope you like honesty, integrity and humor, because that’s what I am and that’s where we are all going!

December 6, 2004
I just finished the rest of the book. It is so powerful. The message is that Tomorrow’s God is a loving god, needing nothing and serving all of Life. Not only have I felt myself changing while reading this book and practicing the methods in The Power of Now, Martin, the man I married, has mentioned that I have changed a lot in the last few weeks. My growth has been accelerated as my mind has been freed.

What it all boils down to is this
you have all the power and the answers inside of you. All you have to do is ask and you will get an answer. If you want to change who you are, just declare it and know that it is true. I don’t want to spoil the end of the book for you so all I’ll say here is, read it all the way to the end, then spread the word and join the team! That’s Humanity’s Team, making a difference in the outcome of the human experience on planet earth.

View book details at Amazon.com: Tomorrow’s God

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