Dog had to pee... had to get up!

Sleeping in? What's that? When Chester Pug says it's time to go our for a 'smoke & a pancake', it's time to get out of bed! 7am! WTF?

But I'm up... and what another beautiful summer day it is here in London, Ontario, Canada. HOT? Yes! But I do love summer so I'm good! And as much as I would have loved a few more zzz's, getting up gave me the opportunity to do some research and contact a bunch of new people that will make great speakers on our upcoming shows this fall! Hey, if you would like to be on one of our show, or help us create a new show on a topic you are passionate about, just contact us at passiontelesummits@gmail.com okay?!

Our BUSINESS Magick TeleWebseries is filling up fast. We have tons of people signed up already, with 3 fantastic speakers that will help you shift into more of what is possible for you and your business. Check it out at http://passiontelesummits.com/.

And following this series, we have Animal Life Lessons which will blow the mind of all animal lovers out there, followed by We're Bringing Sexy Back. So for goodness sakes.... sign up already!

Of course, Michele and I are having a blast creating these series, and can't believe how fast they have caught on, and how many kewl people we have met, and how many more we are meeting... AND SO CAN YOU! Join us! Tell your friends! Let's wake people up and get them in touch with their gifts, talents, passions, abilities, and do some major life-changing stuff here! That's what we are all about!

There are so many people out there who are doing amazing things. Unfortunately, there are even more people out there who don't realize their full potential and genius.

• Don't you feel you have amazing stuff to do? 
• Don't you feel your life is boring and you need a good shake up? 
• Don't you feel people are the most valuable thing on this planet?

We WE DO... in fact WE KNOW IT!
What would be the purpose to BEING if only to be a slave to other people's ideas and points of view? To never be heard? To always sit on the sidelines or play the role of victim? What use is that shit?  Why are you supporting the bullies? UGH!

We say... UNPLUG FROM ALL OF THAT! Cut those ASS-CORDS will ya! Let go of all that crap and join us for some empowering, super awesome, lessons in wealth, sexuality and sexualness, connecting to animals, loving your body, and MORE. Lot's more! You've heard it a million times, but honestly, if you don't INVEST IN YOU, who's gonna? And what could be any better than being the most happy you that you can be? 

New TeleSummit Series for the Summer! Hooyah!

All I can say is that Michele and I ROCK! Yup. Sometimes you just have to toot your own horn. And Chester Pug agrees.... isn't he just the cutest!

But really, this summer is rock solid with 3 fantastic series I know if I heard about them, I would be attending.

BUSINESS Magick is all about creating more magick in your business. And we don't mean by DOING STUFF - we mean by finding the link between you and your business or business idea that ignites your business - as if by magick. Not trickster, illusion magic, but inner knowing, creative spark magick.

So many of us are driven by numbers... how much of a profit am I making, what was my return from doing that... and we understand, you need money! But what we forget is the passion behind why we chose this path in the first place. In the early stages we formulate ideas from inspiration and breathe life into our desires without putting a ton of expectation on it, and it becomes. And then we try to control it. That's where it all gets screwy! We don't let it BE and EXPAND. So that's some of what we are going to talk about. Plus the areas where we shut ourselves off from receiving all the goodies.

I AM SO FRIGGING EXCITED!

As a Life Coach, playing in the telesummit business is a blast. Knowing that thousands who listen to our shows are being inspired is MORE of a feel good fix than I ever imagined. And I love hearing all the good comments (and some of the snippy ones too of course) from our listeners who like the way Michele and I run our shows. We would LoVe to hear from anyone who has listened who took away something useful from either the Anchoring Prosperity TeleSummit, BEING Series or I WILL SURVIVE Marathon. We could use the LoVe boost! I mean, who couldn't right? Chester Pug loves them too!

So sign up guys. There are 3 new summer series available that will include some amazing stuff to get your business, animal connection, and sexy mojo going. CHECK US OUT.

Peace Out
Catherine

I WILL SURVIVE MARATHON EXCITEMENT

WOW!
The excitement is really building around this Marathon. Michele and I are so excited. People from all over the world are signed up to work with Angela Gower-Johnson, Blossom Benedict and Glenyce Hughes as they share their wisdom and techniques of how to release how so many of us who have experienced abuse, let go of it's control over us. The EASY BUNDLE is available until 4pm Eastern Daylights savings time tomorrow, and is a fantastic package. So many have taken advantage of it so far. What else is possible for how we can facilitate more people?

If you haven't already signed up for this Marathon, and you or someone you know has issues around letting go of the control of abuse, now is the time to do so.

It is Michele and I's passion to awaken consciousness around the world, bringing teachers who want to gift their knowledge to others. We ourselves have explored many modalities such as Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy, Blue Matrix Energy Therapy, Art Therapy, Exploring Intuition classes, Dowsing, Access Consciousness, and more. What I have discovered to be the most important step in desiring to live consciously, is simply to make that choice. Many of my students have said to me that sometimes living consciously almost seems more difficult. It's really just a point of view. When you have been living your life on auto pilot, letting others make decisions for you, reaching out to others for answers to make you happy... making the choice to be consciously aware of what you are choosing can often feel to be the more difficult choice. BEING is so much more fun though when decide it's all about play, fun and being aware. Yes, watching your coworkers, friends and family members plod along hating their lives and pretending they are happy can drive you a bit batty. Just realize that is their choice, and know what you have chosen is a wonderful example to them that there is something else, something better. If their desire to is to live consciously, they will come to you with questions. If they don't ask, leave them alone. It is not your place to change the world, only yourself. Being you is most important as I know you will discover, just as so many millions of others have. Know you are not alone in your choices.

Michele and I have many more exciting TeleSummits in the works. Do you desire to learn how to better communicate to your animal friends? Do you want to put sexualness back in your life? Are you excited to take your business to the next level and let it BE what it desires to be? Would you like to explore relationships? These are all topics will will be playing with and exploring in 2012. All you have to do is desire change, desire happiness for yourself and no one else, all life for you will become more joyful. As I always tell my students... if you don't create joy, look for joy and be joy, how can you expect joy to find you?

Love to all!
Catherine

Redefining Words

As a Personal Development Life Coach, one of the most confusing things I find students/clients come up against is 'definitions'. It's important to understand that your definition of a word is not the same as everyone else's. The dictionary tells us one thing, and we add our own dashes of life experience to the meaning to give it more clarity. What that does though is muddy the waters. And they've gotten pretty sludgy if you ask me.

How we define words morphs through time. It's progress. It's evolution. We use words in different ways, like 'snap,' and 'sweet'. We can't assume we are the only things evolving. How we communicate does also. The words we use today are 'bigger' then they were in the past... juicier. And personally, I LOVE IT. I feel we get way too caught up in word definitions and should redefine them to work in our favor. I'd like to put a positive twist onto some of the words society uses to demoralize and criticize.

The word BRAG is one example of a word I do not feel works for us any longer. In my "What's Your VIBE?" Explorashops, my students have a wonderful time giving new meaning to this word. To Brag has been looked upon as a bad thing, more as a put down and as doing something hurtful. One definition of brag is to talk with excessive pride about an achievement or possession. What's so bad about that? How is that any different from a job interview? If everyone twists this word with points of view that it is about showing off and putting down others, how are we supposed to share our accomplishments? "Oh, s/he's just bragging!" How can you sell your skills, abilities and talents during a job interview if you've been taught that bragging is a bad thing? Talking about yourself just feels wrong. No wonder so many of us live like turtles hiding in our shells. And who says when you are bragging you are putting others down? What if your intention is just to share your great news because you are excited about something wonderful taking place in your life? Can you help it if someone else is jealous because of your success? Do you see what I mean?

I like to play with words. Redefine them in fun ways that create joy in my life and the lives of others. Give them more depth. Create new ones for people to play with. Here is one... AMAZINGNESS. Good one huh? So, amaze is defined as "to fill somebody with wonder or astonishment". Perfect right? Gotta luv it. Here is how I play with this word.
A.MAZE.ING.NESS
I often wondered how the word maze slipped into something so wonderful. A maze can be fun, but it can also be frustrating and a challenge. And yes, that can be wonderful can't it? Ok, I'm going to get weird on you here, so just play with me. One of my sayings is "My life is amazing", which is what got me to looking at this word in the first place. If my life is like a maze, filled with challenges and things to figure out so I stay on the right path, how could that be better? What if instead of walking through a maze trying to figure a way out, or which is the right direction, the maze did more? What if just when I thought I was stuck, the maze presented me with a gem... an opening to something/somewhere I never thought was possible? Something that a moment ago seemed hidden from view? An opening I just couldn't see? An illusion? Oooh! Are you getting this? How fun would that be?
ING means more of something to me. More happening. See-Seeing. Talk-Talking. Love-Loving. Pretend-Pretending. So what if your maze of life was more than you thought it was? More possibilities you can't see that are available to you? You just have to stop and open your eyes to see them. Have a different point of view. A different perspective.
And NESS is like infiniteness. More possibilities. More than I ever imagined.

How does "My life is amazingness" sound to you now? More open? More expansive? More fun?

I'm not saying we want to screw up the whole English language. Although we've already done a good job of that without my help. What I'm getting at is that you don't have to take someone else's point of view or definition of anything as yours. Just because a book says one thing doesn't mean it can't be twisted and bent in your favor. And because so many of us add our touch of life experience and emotion to words, it would do us good to not take things so personally. Someone else's jealousy is not yours. Someone else's pain is not yours. If you say something with the intention of hurting someone, how is that a benefit to you? But if you say something and someone takes it differently than you intended due to their smattering of life experience on a word, how is that a judgement on you? I'm just saying!

Oh, the I WILL SURVIVE Healing the Scars of Abuse 3-Day Marathon starts this Thursday, at 4pmEDT. It is our plan to facilitate a lot of people during each show, and have scheduled 3 hours with each speaker providing us lots of time to do so. So please REGISTER FREE and join us. If you have ever let abuse of any kind take the drivers seat in your life, this Marathon is for you. AND, for only $24.99 you can be on the show and receive 15 minutes with one of our speakers. How fantastic is that? Tons less then what you would pay normally, so why not take advantage of that.

Ok, later guys. Lots more TeleSummits on the horizon. Animals, relationships, sexuality, business and more!

Catherine

Revealing Your Nasty Bits

Last night I went to bed exhausted, and awoke abruptly at 4am on the dot due to a horrific dream. I realized my body hadn’t budged from the original position I tucked myself in the night before, and was surprised I had not thrashed about due to the stirrings of my unconscious mind. Upon opening my eyes and realizing that the details of the dream had not followed me into the conscious world, I was able to breathe a sigh of relief. But the specifics of the dream world still hung in my vibration.

I rolled on my side as tears filled my eyes and spilled down onto my pillow. The heaviness of the dream and all its details filled my thoughts like a spider’s web. Experience after experience connected to person after person who I had touched in some way throughout my life, created this intricate network of events that had all been revealed to me subconsciously while I slept. The idea of how many people had been affected in some way due to me being in their lives, even if just for a moment, was mind-boggling.

What had this dream delivered? All of my nasty bits. Everywhere throughout my entire life where I had left an impression on another individual. Not loving impressions, on the contrary. My dream revealed spiteful, malicious, cruel, offensive and vicious marks I had left on others. And if that wasn’t hard enough to swallow, each and every one of these people were here having a party in my favor. Oh, not a fun filled party. A party where I was to be humiliated and made to feel exactly the way I had made all of them feel. It was horrifying. Payback is a bitch!

So, why was I crying? Because in an instant I understood that I am all of those things. What things? Unkind, cruel, malicious, heartless, insensitive, unsympathetic, detached, whiny, bitchy, rude, obnoxious, overbearing, bossy, a nag, spiteful, a complainer, gossipy... the list goes on and on. These are not qualities I would usually want to admit are a part of me. You know what I mean right? Instead we pick the few traits and qualities we deem most desirable like, honesty, lovable, considerate, multi-tasker, hard worker, and so on, and inflate them so much that they appear to overpower the nasty bits. What this dream showed me were how the nasty bits can make a much bigger impact than you would care to believe.

• Remember that day you didn’t take your friends call because you didn’t want to get into some long conversation, so you just ignored it? Well, she really needed you in that moment and had no one else to turn to. She felt alone and scared. She remembered you weren’t there for her, even if only subconsciously.
•  Remember that time your coworker came forward with an idea in a meeting, and you noted how it was impossible to make work? Well, that was their attempt at confidence, and you just knocked her back a step... again!
• Remember that time your lover tried to apologize to you, and you continued to repeat to them what they did to hurt you over and over and over again? Well, s/he decided you and the relationship weren’t worth it after that. I mean, you just rub it in their face anyways.
• Remember all those mornings when you get your coffee and you never say thank you or acknowledge the person serving you? The girl serving you is having a rough time with her bills and has no one to watch her kids so she can go out and have some time to herself. Well, she got fed up and called in sick one day, feeling very unappreciated. Guess what? She got fired.
• Remember that time you just had to be right? No matter what the other person said, WRONG. Well, that person was attempting to have a backbone instead of letting everyone walk all over them. Guess what? You made them feel foolish.
• Remember that time you talked on and on and on about yourself, and didn’t stop to ask the receiver about their life? Well, they had been feeling rather alone lately and now, you just pushed them off the fence into total disempowerment.

Every facet of this dream related to every instance where I interacted with another human being with a nasty side effect... and these people wanted justice. They horrified, humiliated, robbed and abandoned me for their own pure delight. I was left in the middle of nowhere with nothing, and everyone I loved killed. I stood alone speechless and dumbfounded. And then I opened my eyes.

So what did I learn? Nothing. I personally do not support the word “learn unless it is applied to acquiring knowledge of a new subject or skill through education or experience. What if we didn’t “learn” through interactions with other, or by opening to awareness, but instead we grew and expanded? What if we morphed and transformed into something new? That is what I did... I expanded. I morphed. I accepted all of my nasty bits and looked deeper into that inner part of me that is all things and said, “Yes, I am that.” And I was immediately thankful and respectful to all of the people who had gifted me with their presence and enlightened me subconsciously in this dream, allowing me to be vulnerable. This is part of my expansion as spirit.

I have always loved knowledge and have an ingrained persistence to never stop expanding. Self development is critical to me, and why I adore helping others reveal their nasty bits, as well as reveal to them how potent they are as a Life Coach. I sold my soul to everyone else’s definition of reality for the first 30 or so years of my life. In that time, I believe my spirit could not contain itself and has continued to bust me open at the seams every chance it gets. More and more of who I am, and how I can contribute and enjoy life and relationships here on this planet are brought to light. This dream, this slap in the face, exposed a part of me deserving of love and attention... and that’s what I’m going to give it!

Catherine

How long does it take for thoughts to manifest into form?

What a magnificent question... How long does it take for thoughts to manifest into form?

As a Law of Attraction Coach, Workshop and TeleSummit Facilitator, I've been asked this question more than any other question. How long does it take? Why hasn't my stuff shown up yet? Will it ever show up? We are so impatient.

So what I usually ask in response is, "Before you had the knowledge that thought became form, and that you ask and the universe delivers... how long did you wait?" Of course, this brings on a myriad of excuses, stories and details, all of which defend and support their not knowing. I mean, it couldn't work before because they didn't know it COULD be possible. Right? Interesting though that those who ask also say they understand the idea that Law of Attraction exists with or without their knowing.

Ladies and gentlemen... you've got to get real with yourself! That's the first thing. This is not an organized religion where you are told what to do, you do what the leader says and except the idea that you will be given access to Heaven, although some would like to pretend that it is. The law of attraction simply is. Like gravity. So the key is to do your best to challenge your beliefs and play with it and make it work in your favour. We as a species play with gravity and use it to our advantage all the time... so what makes this any different? Once we figured out how to fly, do you think everyone trusted it? Even today there are those who will do everything in their power to avoid flying. The thing is... you have to really DESIRE your life to show up differently, literally make that demand, and not know HOW, or all the details of how it's going to look when it does show up differently.

If I was to put a seed in the soil and ask you to tell me what is possible for that seed, what might you come up with?

• That is grows into a tree of some sort
• That it grows into a vegetable of some sort
• That is grows into a flower of some sort
• That it grows and is eaten by a gopher 
• That it grows and is the largest tree in an empty field where children come to play on it
• That it grows and someone cuts it down and uses it as a Christmas tree
• That it grows and it cut down and used for fire wood
• That it begins to grow and then dies due to lack of water
• That it begins to grow, then someone pulls it out of the ground because they don't want it there
• That it begins to grow and is eaten by a cow
• That it begins to grow and then is plowed down into the field
• That it doesn't grow at all

Do you see how many possibilities there are? And I could have gone on and on.

A thought is much like that. It has a life of it's own. You think a thought, you decide to pay more attention to it and play with the idea of it being more than just a thought... and then you start to micromanage it like all the possibilities of the seed. You define it in detail so it shows up the way you want it to. What you can't comprehend though is that every single one of these possibilities is possible. Each is set in motion and influences the whole universe with it's possibility. But when you plant a seed, you just put it in the ground and hope it grows. You don't think about all the possibilities for the seed. You may water it to help it along, but you don't place any big expectation on it. Even if it is going to provide food for you, you just plant it, water it and know that what happens... happens.

So the question really is, "Why do we insist on micromanaging the thoughts we want to take form?" Is it because we really only desire the end result? Which can happen if it is really what we are able to handle... with emphasis on the word "handle." So truth... what can you HANDLE? How do you know what you can handle? What if you thought "I want to live in a mansion" and POOF, there was a mansion for you to live in. Would it be perfect? Better yet, would you accept it exactly as it is? Or would you stand there and poof a different driveway, poof different surroundings, poof a different location, poof different furniture, poof, poof, poof? When does all the poofing stop? Can you handle that? Instant poof? What about the journey getting to the poof? What about house hunting, shopping for just the right furniture, paint colors, neighborhood, and all of the sensations to the end result along the way? Guess they aren't important huh?

How long do you want the experience to last? How fast do you want to understand the truth of what is going on? Caroline Myss taught me that those are the exact same question. And to give you one last goodie... The extent that you want the depth of the truth, is the extent to which you engage the speed that the experience will last.

Mind-Blowing stuff!

Catherine Garrett

Upon waking this morning, the first thought that came to me was, "What would it take for me to love me, love my life and love what is coming?"

You know, I think so many of us get caught up in GOALS and SCHEDULES and SUPPOSED TO BE'S that we don't value what is closest to us in every moment. That could be...

• that you have a great bed and woke up this morning feeling fantastic
• the magnificent feeling of the hot water on your body and the clean smells of shampoo during your morning shower
• working as the assistant building manager where I live means I don't have to drive to go to work. How great is that?
• the first sip of your morning coffee or tea.... mmm yummy!

Michele and I recently finished the BEING SERIES TeleSummit, and are working on the next one of course... setting ourselves free from past abuse. But what the BEING SERIES gave to me was the many, many ways we can appreciate who we are.

1. I discovered how much we take ourselves for granted and don't put ourselves centre stage in our relationships during our play hour with Susan Lazar Hart. 
2. how important it is to our whole being to show our sexualness and feel sexy and confident no matter how nasty we think our bodies are talking to Dr. Shelly Childers.
3. Simone Milasas showed us how fun it can be to treat our businesses like they are an extension of ourselves instead of seeing them as something we need to control.
4. Blossom Benedict shared how loving our voice and appreciating all the parts we think are quirky about it, and identifying how those are it's strengths can assist us.
5. I loved learning how to communicate to our pet friends talking to Suzy Godsey and also ways in which we can get rid of pests.
6. Talking to Solange Rocine on age and aging was so much fun. We definitely do ourselves a great injustice judging our faces and bodies all the time!
7. I loved learning about the difference between an awareness and an answer and how finding answers box us into more limitation with Brenda St. Louis.
8. Liam Phillips was amazing informing us how we lock pain and suffering into our bodies and ways we can free ourselves from that.
9. In our discussion with Pam Houghteling I learned how so many of my thoughts and emotions were generated from things that were not even my own! How amazing is that? So much is not even my stuff!!
10. And on the last day of our BEING SERIES Sabine Hildebrant helped me to take a broader look at myself and ask "What if everything that I ever thought was wrong with me, wasn't?" A truly life-altering eye-opening.

So if you didn't get a chance to register for the BEING SERIES TeleSummit, or listen in, no worries, you can still listen to all the speakers anytime you wish, right on your own mp3 player or your computer. Michele and I feel as though we are exploding with all of the clearings, tools and processes these magnificent Access Consciousness Facilitators gave to us and have been receiving tons of emails thanking us for putting this unique TeleSeries together.

Go to the BEING SERIES website

More later!
Catherine