GOD IS MY GUIDE

Written by Terri Amos


'Dear God, thank you for healing my life. I open myself up to receiverepparttar love andrepparttar 128837 guidance that you give me, so that I might be an example of peace, truth and unconditional love for my family andrepparttar 128838 world around me.'

I said variations of this prayer for a very long time. I wanted my family to feel whole and I knew it had to start with me. I knew before I could love them unconditionally, I had to healrepparttar 128839 turmoil inside of me. I discovered over time that as I followed God's path and grew in my truth, it has allowed my family to grow, too.

A year-and-a-half ago I picked up a tape atrepparttar 128840 library by Deepak Chopra regardingrepparttar 128841 seven levels of consciousness. The levels start with innocence, then move on torepparttar 128842 ego, torepparttar 128843 achiever, torepparttar 128844 seeker, and on into different levels of union consciousness. My gut told merepparttar 128845 tape was for my husband, Steve, to see.

Steve watchedrepparttar 128846 tape, got very emotional and then told me he no longer wanted to be an achiever. He wanted to be a seeker of truth. He wanted to take time off and let everything go. Some might have called this a mid-life crisis...he is a FEW years older than me... but what we both knew was that he wanted to find his purpose and inner peace.

I was thrilled for about a split second until he said, "I want to let everything go. I want to sellrepparttar 128847 house."

Yikes! Be careful what you ask for. I had prayed for some time that Steve would find inner peace. I just didn't know it was going to shake up my world so much. He wanted to get rid of my home. So much for my world of peace and stability!

As always, God works in beautiful, wondrous ways. I finally got past my tears and fears and agreed that this would berepparttar 128848 best path for us to take. We sold our house without it ever going onrepparttar 128849 market, for full price I might add, and then found ourselves on an adventure that we would have never imagined.

We thought me wanted to move torepparttar 128850 country, but then found ourselves confused becauserepparttar 128851 television industry was revealing itself to me as an avenue to share my message. We decided to stay in Southern California, but had no idea where we would live. We knew we wanted to rent a home, but soon discovered it to be very difficult to find one that was big enough for our whole family, including our little Maltese. Then, out ofrepparttar 128852 blue, a realtor called us and said, "I heard you decided to stay here for awhile. I just sold a home to a man who has now decided to go abroad. It is five years old, has four bedrooms, three baths and is five blocks fromrepparttar 128853 beach. He would like a family to rent it. Would you be interested?"

Would we be interested? We couldn't believe our good fortune.

Forrepparttar 128854 next year-and-a-half we realized it wasn't just good fortune, but it was God guiding us and taking care of us. We set an intention for ourselves that we were fully surrendering to God, so that we might live forrepparttar 128855 highest good, bringing light and love intorepparttar 128856 world.

The adventure became a roller coaster ride of ups and downs. One ofrepparttar 128857 things Steve most wanted to do in his time off was to escape and spend time on our boat. It had been in Mexico for several years and his first intention was to bring it back up to Southern California. Well, wouldn't you know it, just a few hours from making its way home,repparttar 128858 boat caught on fire and sunk torepparttar 128859 bottom ofrepparttar 128860 ocean. Steve was devastated. I knew there had to be a gift.

AUTHENTICITY = FREEDOM

Written by Terri Amos


The most courageous thing a person can do is to live an authentic life. What is an authentic life? It is a life lived from your heart, speaking your truth, standing in your truth, living in your truth.

The problem with getting to this point of authentic freedom is that for most of us, we have no idea of who we really are. To get to know who you really are you must go deep within. You must be willing to look at all of your limiting beliefs; beliefs that tell you that you are bad, you are not worthy, you are not capable, and you are not enough, just to name a few.

We take limiting beliefs on our whole lives. From early childhood we learn from our parents, grandparents and siblings. Their opinions begin to shape and define us. Then as we grow, our peers and teachers affect us most. Society also plays a tremendous role in telling us who we are. It's up to us to knowrepparttar truth.

Recently I had some Chinese food. As usual, I went forrepparttar 128834 fortune cookie first. That'srepparttar 128835 little kid inside of me wantingrepparttar 128836 sweet stuff first. 'You will get what you want as long as it is not extravagant.' I chewed on that fortune for a moment, agreeing with it. Thenrepparttar 128837 taste of those words grew sour to me. I realized this was a limiting belief. "Whoa!" I said to myself. "Is thisrepparttar 128838 truth for me?"

I knew instantly that I had held myself back my whole life, especially since my teenage years, from living with overflowing abundance. When I was a teenager my family was pretty well off. We lived on Country Club lane on ten acres. We had a beautiful home and pool, drove nice cars, my dad had his own business and my mom stayed at home with my sister and me. We had most everything we could possibly need. I also did great in school. I graduated Salutatorian, was president of this and a member of that. I wasrepparttar 128839 all-around student. However, and this is a big HOWEVER, I often felt judged for my abundance. I felt separate fromrepparttar 128840 crowd because I felt different. What I didn't know until opening that fortune cookie was that I began to limit myself overrepparttar 128841 years with what I allowed myself to have. I had a limiting belief that if I lived with overflowing abundance then no one would like me.

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