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Welcome
to Reboot
Your Life™
Your
Inner Journey
and
Six-Sensory
Guide
to Living.
Vol. 2, Issue 2
February 10, 2008
Inspirational and Motivational
articles, quotes, and more
for living a better and charmed life.
I welcome your
contributions,
tips and ideas. Please feel free to pass them along to rebootyourlife@suesunshine.com.
I will share them in each issue.
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My
Spirit Welcomes Your Spirit!
To all
the new subscribers,
I
would like to thank you for subscribing.
For
all others,
Thank
you for
continuing to do so.
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IT ON!
If
you like
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please.) Your recommendations are how this newsletter grows. Please
feel free to forward a copy to someone you think would enjoy reading
it.
Due
to so many blessings taking place in my life this newsletter is a few
days late. Changing the format of this ezine is part of the
reason for the delay. I hope you like the new format.
I would love to hear your opinions about it, as well as to
the content of it. Email me at rebootyourlife@suesunshine.com .
A
friend pointed out to me last month about all the blessings I receive.
She is so right on about that! However, everyone has
blessings everyday of which they may not be aware. I would
love to hear about yours at blessings@suesunshine.com. You
can find some of my current blessings in the
section on Blessings.
One of my blessings is the
way Life
is Like Making Chocolate Chip Cookies is getting into the hands of more people.
You can read about that under
Book
Update.
In
the Events and Workshops for 2008 section check out your favorite author or
event. If you don't see it, email
me at rebootyourlife@suesunshine.com and
we will get it in the next newsletter.
The Head's
Up
section has a product that I use quite often. It may be of interest to
you to help you with your meditation and controlling your breathing.
It is worth checking into. And again, I receive
nothing from these
recommendations except the happiness knowing that I may be helping
someone reboot their life.
And
mentioning rebooting your life, my consulting times and fees
have changed. For
more information check
out the
section on "Intuitive
Consultations" .
All
newsletter reprint and
subscription information
is found at the end of
this newsletter.
I am currently working on setting up a website specifically for Reboot
Your Life™ with all the details of my trips and lessons.
In the meantime check the main
article for this month. It is focusing on lessons
learned from the recent trip I took and the training I recived.
There were so many life lessons that everyone could apply to
their lives. This is just a sampling.
And
as always,
my Spirit is sending
blessings, love, and
prayers to your
Spirit!
Sue
Do
you have a topic you
would like me to address in an upcoming issue? If
so please feel free to email me at rebootyourlife@suesunshine.com .
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I
have not heard from any of you as to blessings you have received.
Does this mean that out of all the subscribers I am the only
one to receive blessings? I think not!
It
only takes a few minutes to hit the link at the end of this section and
tell me about your blessings. I would love to share them with others through this newsletter. However,
if you wish to remain anonymous you may do so. Please share
with us what has been shared with you. Here are my blessings!
During
the month of January, and the few days of February that have already
passed, I have gathered more blessings!
The
beginning of January brought blessings of heat to my home. It
also brought with it the ability to let go of the concern associated
with it.
Two
book signings and the peoples' comments who attended showed me how much
my book has really touched peoples' lives. And in turn how
they have touched my life. These blessings are savored as a
chocolate chip cookie is savored: enjoying each delicious
bite and making a memory of them.
My
trip for training and certification gave me so many blessings:
too numerous to mention here! One of those
blessings, however, was the scholarship that made the training
available to me. Another blessing was my roommate who I was
able to share the daily events with. And who shared her insights about
my struggles and breakthroughs over that four day period.
Book
sales are up and how some of those books became available is a blessing
in itself.
Please
email
me what your blessings were this past month!
I
would love to hear from you!
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I have been
encouraged over the past few months to
change my rates for consultations. I now feel it is the time to
adjust the rate scale. Please contact me at the email below for further
information or to book an appointment. I look forward to
helping you Reboot Your Life™ in any capacity.
I would be
blessed to be able to help you Reboot Your Life™
in
whatever area you desire!
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Choose
to believe that "everyone is always helpful."
Therefore, wherever you go in life, people will be there to
assist you.
~ Louise L. Hay
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"I Felt Alone"
As
many times in the past I had a roommate for my recent trip and
training. The trip was to a resort and spa outside of
Chicago. The training was Sonia Choquette's Six-Sensory
training and certification program. My roommate was a lovely
young woman from Florida. This was the first time we had met face to
face though we had emailed back and forth and talked on the phone.
I arrived earlier than my roommate. Finding myself alone for
a few hours, I went scouting for other classmates. I said
hello to everyone in the hall, asked if they were there for Sonia's
training, and chatted a bit with each one. Finally one of these
charming ladies and I agreed to meet in the restaurant for a late snack.
We chatted for quite sometime only to realize the time and that my
roommate was due to check in at anytime. We parted ways and I
went to my room. There I discovered my roommate had already
arrived and wasn't in the room. After two, or was it three, trips down
to the lobby and back to the room to find her, I got the inspiration to
return to the restaurant I just left where two other ladies had been
having dinner. Perhaps one of them was the roommate I was
seeking.
As I approcached the table one of the women called out my name, Susie.
It was my roommate. I was not alone any longer.
In the past at other events my 'roomies' and myself would do everything
together. This was not to be this time. The first
day was such a shock to my system! My roommate and I went our
separate ways during the day. We were not connected at the
hip as other roommates in the past had been. How was I going
to survive this? My roommmates always took care of me!
They guided me to the places I needed to go whether to the
workshop room, to eat, or to our room. They opened the door
because I could never get my keycard to work. They helped me
with everything! I realize now it wasn't that I couldn't do
those things. They were making it easier for me to do what I
was suppose to do at these events: interact with others.
I didn't need to pay attention to such things because my
roommates were taking care of me. It wasn't just my roommates
either. It seemed everyone was helping me with these issues.
They allowed me to do my work and still function in the real
world. So why not this time, too? One word:
lessons.
That first day was a bit unnerving for me. I had to find
someone to sit with me. I had to find someone to eat with me.
I had to find someone to talk to me. Or so I
thought. On top of that I had to find my way back to the room and pray
I could open the door. Life as I knew it at an event had
changed for me. At the end of the day I was feeling a bit
lonely and unbalanced.
I didn't like having to ask others to eat with me or if I can sit with
them. I felt if I asked people I was being pushy or invasive. They had
their own friends, their own space. Who was I to intrude? Why
did I have to go through all of this? What was going on?
Then it hit me: lessons!
I needed to know how it felt for other people to approach me and ask if
they could sit with me. I needed to feel uncomfortable at
eating alone and the feeling of asking someone to eat with me.
I needed to let go of my stinking thinking that by asking I
was imposing on others. I needed to learn that it
was alright to ask, and not to take it personally if for some reason it
didn't work out. I needed to learn it was alright to eat, sit
and walk alone. It was okay.
That night as I talked to Spirit God, I asked that whoever was suppose
to sit next to me would. I asked that if I were to eat lunch
with someone they would be sent to me and ask me to eat with them.
If I was to talk to anyone in particular that they would
engage me in conversation. I also added that if none of it
was to be I was okay with it. I closed out my request by
being thankful for the people I ate with, sat with, and talked to that
day. Then I let it all up to Spirit God and went to sleep.
The next day as I sat near the back of the room on an aisle seat a
smiling lady came up and just sat down next to me without saying a
word. The whole row was empty but she sat next to me.
I believe she was one of my answers to prayer.
While contemplating this answered prayer another woman approached me
and asked if I had any plans for lunch. Upon hearing I didn't she asked
me if we might have lunch together. Another answered prayer.
As the day continued I kept to myself, which is quite unlike me.
People kept coming and sitting next to me: a
different person each time. I had many offers to get together
to eat or chat. I noticed that if any one looked up and saw
me by myself they would come over to me and include me. Later
in the weekend I asked several people why they included me like that.
The answer was always the same. They felt my energy
and wanted to be a part of it. They wanted a chance to be
with me, get to know me, and it was easier when there wasn't a crowd
around me. Some of them said they were shy or afraid to
approach me because I might think they were being pushy. Does
that sound familiar?
While standing or sitting as others milled around during exercises or
breaks, I was able to observe all the people in the room. and the
wonderful energy generated by them. I realized right there
and then that even though I was not interacting with them on a
one-to-one basis, I was not alone. We were all one.
I was never alone during those four days, not really.
It was my own perception of what being alone meant.
A hundred people attended this training. In some
way, shape, or form I interacted with each one. The lesson I
learned about being alone was a valuable one. It was much
needed. I can see that now. In a group of a hundred
people or by myself I am never alone. I have my God and I
have myself. More than that is truly a blessing!
© 2008, L. Sue Durkin
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"Just
A Side Note"
Over the past several years on my travels I have noticed people from
all walks of life, different cultures, races, and religions becoming
one family, being helpful, and joing together for a common
good. I have seen it in airports, on buses, in workshops, in
shuttle cars and limosines, and many other places. They band
together in a room, in a vehicle, or in a particular area to share one
thing, or perhaps more than one thing, between them. It is
just like one big happy family: strangers with a common bond.
So how is it the world is in such a mess? Is it because when
we leave that common denominator we have with these strangers we do not
embrace them the same? Are we as apt to invite that same
stranger for a meal, hold a door open for them, say a kind word to
them, ask to sit next to them, or even smile at them under different
circumstances?
Do we have a tendency to hold back just because we don't know them or
we have not been formally introduced? Or is it more than
that? Could it be the clothes they wear, the way they smell,
how clean they are, or the color of their teeth that puts us off?
Could it be they talk too loud or soo soft? Do they
hang their head rather than hold it up high? Do they appear less
intelligent than ourselves? Or is it something else?
I have noticed strangers with a common bond hugging, engaging in
conversation, and even sharing a meal with other people they wouldn't
normally give a second look. Why? They then leave that common
bond and walk away returning to their 'normal' habit
of treating those 'type' of strangers differently. In any
other place or time they wouldn't give these people the time of day.
Why is this? What has changed?
Are you this way? Are you put off by someone because of
looks, smell, mannerisms, etc. only to discover they share common
interests or acquaintances? Then you embrace them.
Do you ignore someone who doesn't 'resonate' with you only to
find out later mybe you should have paid more attention to them?
Why do we interact with strangers on a bus only to deliberately not
interact with their 'kind' when we are off the bus? Think
about it. What in our individual character calls us to act so
differently to the same person, or type of person?
The next time you interact with a stranger in an elevator, on a plane,
at a convention, workshop, or spa, or even at the store, think about
what your reaction to that person is. Think about why you react that
way. Go inside yourself and see what fears arise to make your
interactions or lack of interactions what they are. Do you
need to reboot a part of your life: that part that
holds you back from truly interacting and embracing others?
Think about it. Make your life interactions more
fulfilling.
Don't judge. Don't assume. Just Love!
© 2008,
L. Sue Durkin
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may use the material in this newsletter
as long as you keep the
copyright in tact.
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Life™ Newsletter
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Mishka
Productions from
Arizona, two dynamic women and great leaders in the revolution to wake
up the world to Spirit are coming to Chicago in June with Celebrate
Your Life. There will be many great teachers and
leaders, like
Marianne Williamson. John Holland, and Neal Donald
Walsch joining in the experience, so it should be a
fantastic weekend. Mark your calendars and don’t miss this
marvelous and joyous event. To register go to www.mishkaproductions.com
>>Christiane
Northrup, MD.
2008 - The Year of New Beginnings
Healing
Happens with Your Help Workshop
March 28-31
Stockbridge, MA
Kripalu
Center for Yoga & Help 800-741-7353
Join Carol to uncover the deeper messages behind a range of conditions,
including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis,
fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, and headaches.
>>Loretta
LaRouche
at the Duxbury
Performing Arts
February 29th.Show time 8:00 pm.
Gold Circle tickets-35.00 (includes 6:30 meet and greet)
Silver level seating 25.00
Tickets available at WestWind Book Shop, Duxbury, MA or call the
Loretta LaRoche Productions Box Office at 508-747-1340
Brought to you by the Duxbury Parent Connection
>>Sylvia
Browne 2008 Tour
with
Colette Baron-Reid
February 26
- May 8, 2008
Featuring Colette
Baron-Reid, Sylvia
Browne
Listen
to Sylvia as she explores the many temples and halls that exist on the
Other Side and explains how they all hold wisdom that can dramatically
improve your life!
 >>Sonia
Choquette's 2008 Tour
March 16 -
November 1, 2008
Featuring Sonia
Choquette
It
is time to release yourself and the world from negative energy and
begin to elevate your vibration and experience to a more loving and
positive level. You can make a difference now!
>>A
Weekend with Sonia's Guides!
March 8-9th 2008
Saturday - 10am to 4pm
Sunday - 10am to 4pm
Join Sonia
for the
first time ever as she makes her channeled guides
available for personal questions and group discussion. During this
intimate three day event you will meet Joachim, the primary
spokesperson for the Emissaries of the Third Ray, Elophilia, the
feminine guide from the Third Ray, Rose, who is her healing guide and
her teacher guides The Three Bishops. In this very intimate setting,
Sonia will not only channel her guides for direct conversation, but
will also have them directly transmit their frequency in order for you
to raise your vibration and heal your life. This workshop will also
include meditations introduced by the guides directly. Finally Sonia
will show you the tools for channeling your own Spirit guides. Joining
Sonia for this workshop is singer and songwriter Mark Welch. This
workshop is held at the Eaglewood Resort in Itasca, IL and is limited
to just 35 students.
>>True
Balance at Kripalu
Join Sonia in the beautiful Berkshires of
Massachusettes for True
Balance at Kripalu this June 1-3, 2007 to strengthen your chakras and
heal your Spirit. www.kripalu.org
>>Don’t
miss Sonia Choquette
and her guides,
Joachim
and The Emissaries of The Third Ray
in person as I bring the message of Soul Lessons and Soul
Purpose to a city near you.
Next dates; Australia Sept. 15th
San Francisco Nov
17th
New York Dec 1st
To Register go to www.trustyourvibes.com
For
more Sonia
during 2008 click on the following link.
http://www.soniachoquette.com/calendar.php
>>I Can
Do It! 2008 - Toronto
>>Marianne
Williamson 2008 Tour
The
Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife
March 27 -
June 29, 2008
Featuring Marianne
Williamson
In
this enriching workshop, New York Times best-selling author and
spiritual activist Marianne Williamson will explore, on a deeper level,
the life-affirming principles she first examined in A Course
in Miracles.
>>Wayne
Dyer 2008 Live Tour
Change
Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
March 28 -
October 24, 2008
Featuring Dr. Wayne
W. Dyer
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer is
presenting live lectures in several major cities
in the US.
>>Spiritual
Connections - Mexican Riviera
>>I Can
Do It! At Sea
April 5-12,
2008
Featuring Baron
Baptiste, Dr. Wayne
W. Dyer, Louise L.
Hay, Loretta
LaRoche, Caroline
Myss, Cheryl
Richardson, Doreen
Virtue, Brian L.
Weiss, M.D., Marianne
Williamson
Hay House has chartered
an entire ship for an exclusive Mexican Riviera
Cruise featuring eight superstars!
>>I Can
Do It! 2008 - Las Vegas
June 26-29,
2008
Featuring Colette
Baron-Reid, Joan Z.
Borysenko, Ph.D., Gregg
Braden, Sonia
Choquette, Alan Cohen,
Terah
Kathryn Collins, Dr. Wayne
W. Dyer, Gordon
Dveirin, Ed.D., Steven D.
Farmer, Ph.D., Timothy
Freke, David R.
Hamilton, Ph.D., Jean Haner,
David
Hawkins, M.D. Ph.D., Robert
Holden, John
Holland, Loretta
LaRoche, Glynis
McCants, Peggy
McColl, Michael
Neill, Robert
Ohotto, Gary R.
Renard, Cheryl
Richardson, Sandra
Anne Taylor, James F.
Twyman, Iyanla
Vanzant, Doreen
Virtue, Brian L.
Weiss, M.D., Dr.
Darren R. Weissman, Lisa
Williams, Marianne
Williamson
Today's most
inspirational speakers gathered together for one
incredible weekend event!
More Conferences and Workshops
as the information
becomes available.
The
small things you do every day--smiling at a stranger or paying someone
a compliment--bring you closer to your spiritual truth, the purity of
your soul.
~ Deepak Chopra, M.D.
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NEW
BOOK RELEASE!! 
Life is Like
Making Chocolate
Chip Cookies
ISBN
#
978-0-615-17262-0
Life is Like
Making Chocolate Chip Cookies
was released January 2,
2008, and I am very excited to share it
with you. This is my first channeled book. I am an interested
reader as well as the writer on this project. My Spirit guided me
through the whole process which has brought about different and
interesting perspectives on many areas of life. This book
is a guide to living the life you want told through metaphors
and real life situations. I hope
you enjoy it.
A companion book in the form
of a workbook is already being written for Life is Like Making Chocolate
Chip Cookies. We are intending to publish it
before the end of 2008. More information to follow as it
becomes available.
For more
information on how to order an autographed copy of my book go to:
http://www.weavingdreamspublishing.com
or
http://lifeislike.suesunshine.com
Also
Available (unsigned) on
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Computer
Game for Meditation
This
month I would like to tell you about a computer game to help you with
your meditation practice. This game has been out for several
years and I highly recommend it.
The Journey
to Wild Divine: The Passage is a biofeedback
program made to be used in conjunction with your computer. It
teaches and guides you in learning breathing techniques to help you,
not
only in your meditation but, in your day to day activities.
I play it for the game as well as for practicing the breathing
techniques to help me in my meditation and to function better
throughout the day.
It may appear quite pricey for a game but the biofeedback equipment is
included. It is well worth the cost. They have also
added other products to their line. When you purchase this
game or any of their other products, let me know your opinions.
If you already have any of these products, please share your
experiences using them with us. The link to check out The Journey to Wild Divine:
The Passage is www.wilddivine.com.
Mark Stanton Welch
Another Head's Up this month is about music.
Mark Stanton Welch travels all over the world using his music
in workshops. He is a singer, songwriter, and educator. His original material is currently
available at www.markstantonwelch.com.
Check it out and let me know what
you think of his music.
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Being
relaxed, at peace with yourself, confideant, emotionally neutral,
loose, and free-floating--these are the keys to successful performance
in almost everything you do.
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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Stalking Spirit
by Malcom R. Campbell
"You have
to stalk everything. Everything scatters and gathers;
everything comes and goes like fish under a bridge. You have to stalk
the spirit, too. You can wait forgetful anywhere, for anywhere is the
way of his fleet passage, and hope to catch him by the tail and shout
something in his ear before he wrests away." –Annie Dillard,
"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
Writers are
Seekers As the illusions of time and space unfold along the
writer's path, there will come a seemingly random moment when spirit
speaks and is heard.You are now forever changed. Your
journey–which you thought was focused only on words and
stories–begins to take on unimaginable new dimensions. Once
you discover spirit is real, you will also discover that you must find
it and know it. Spirit is ever illusive. It does not wait for you at
the corner of West Wood Street and Fairview Avenue or beside the White
Bark Pine in the meadow.
It is not
standing in the baggage claim section of an airport holding
up a sign with your name on it. You won't get a "wish you were here"
postcard from spirit in the today's mail. You must stalk spirit as you
might stalk a deer or a bear.
You are
most likely to find spirit when you are quiet, alert, and
observant. Set aside logic and allow your intuition to guide you While
your five senses may deceive you, use them to explore what you usually
ignore—the shadows between the leaves of a tree rather than
the leaves, the scents carried on the wind, the music in the bubbling
brook, the taste of air, the texture of rock.
Unlike
stalking a deer or a bear, you do not know—and cannot
guess—what exactly you are seeking. Spirit leaves no easily
discernible tracks to be identified with a Peterson's field guide.
Do not try
to imagine what spirit will look like, sound like, taste
like, feel like or smell like or how you might discover it within your
thoughts.
And do not
seek out spirit as you have read about it in books, seen it
in movies, or heard about it from friends. Your expectations will limit
your experience and further hide spirit.
"Expectation
can only be based on what you already know. In the end you
are after what you cannot conceive,' writes Eric J. Pepin in The
Handbook of the Navigator. "By looking for experiences you can relate
to you will overlook what you are truly searching for." Finding spirit
is less important than searching for spirit.
In fact,
the casually expectant hush of the search will change you,
enhance you, transform you and bring you closer to worlds outside your
dreams. You will find yourself writing new stories and new articles
with words you did not think you knew.
There is no
schedule, no expectation, and no goal. As a seeker on the
path, you will ultimately throw away roadmaps and guidebooks and you
will ignore well-travelled roads, trail signs and blazed trees. This is
a spontaneous path of feelings, hunches, impulses and apparent
coincidences.
Above all,
a writer must always be listening, waiting.
When you
can silence the chatter inside your head, when you can forget
yourself and all your wish lists, and when you can focus on nothing
rather than on the outcome you have always desired, you will be ready.
Spirit will not write your next book, your next blog entry, your next
story.
Spirit
doesn't take dictation, it inspires. And then, you will discover
again and again that your childlike wonder and your patient stalking of
spirit is bringing to your writing a glow, a sparkle, and a mysterious
hint of things unseen.
Article by
Malcolm S. Campbell, author of "The Sun Singer,"
http://www.myspace.com/mythrider
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