Emerging Women Live Coverage Part 2: Sera Beak – Unleashing Your Soul’s Voice

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On Saturday of the 2nd annual Emerging Women Live conference “Changing the World Through Feminine Leadership and Entrepreneurship,” in New York City, author of “The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark,” and “Red, Hot and Holy: A Heretic’s Love Story,” Sera Beak took the stage openly discussing her fear of publicly speaking and baring her soul to the audience.

“The fear and trembling, the high pitches and difficulty breathing are not just symptoms of a phobia. They are also symptoms of a woman unleashing her soul’s voice publically,” Beak told the audience. “Most of us have consciously or unconsciously suppressed our souls voice in order to fit in and be successful.”

She grew up the silent one in class, and saying what she needed in order to fit in socially. It wasn’t until graduate school that she first discovered her soul’s voice and it was through a journal her sister gave her as a gift.

“I asked where is my real voice, and unexpectedly words arose from somewhere deep inside me, and I quickly scribbled them down onto page, ‘Come closer, closer still, till closer has meaning no longer.’ I turned the page and another phrase, ‘Your voice is a treasure don’t bury it. Share it.’ I turned to the next page and smiled when I heard ‘Every time you speak your truth, a goddess tattoos your name across her belly,’” she shared. “There is nothing like hearing your soul speak for the first time. Everything false fades away and everything true comes into focus. You remember, ‘Oh yea, this is me.’ Aware of it or not you have this voice within you as well.”

Creating the space to hear and express our soul’s voice privately is one of the most important practices, according to Beak. Each soul’s voice is unique, but features the common threads of integrity, authenticity, creativity, love and freedom, and we will know it’s our soul’s voice speaking because even though our mind may think we are crazy, the body will experience a release.

Despite her journal breakthrough, Beak found herself stifling her soul’s voice professionally, and although she published a successful first book, she found herself conforming to what the “mainstream spiritual and self-help arena” wanted and even visited with a media trainer to learn how to conform to what the media wanted from her. She signed a large contract for her second book, but found herself with a “sever case of writer’s block” and when she finally did push through it and words flowed out of her, the book she created was not what her publisher wanted.

“My editor told me it was too dramatic, emotional and self indulgent, not to mention strange, difficult to relate to and completely unmarketable,” she said.

Beak explained they gave her 45 days to write the book she was contracted for or she would have to break her contract and deal with the legal battles that would ensue. She went on to eventually break her contract in order to honor her soul’s voice, and found a new publisher. She explained every time one of us unleashes our own soul’s voice, we “widen the pathway for other women to voice their souls.”

“Your soul’s voice is a transmission only you can give. An integral piece of humanity’s puzzle, your sacramental signature in the book of life, your muddy fingerprint placed lovingly into the earth,” Beak shared. “This planet desperately needs your souls unique tone in order to harmonize. Don’t change to sound like something else or to fit a unique template. Unleashing your souls voice cannot be coached or taught. It’s an ever-evolving sacred practice, a never-ending act of surrender, a life long journey for most of us, and we all need support during this messy, magnificent, natural process. No matter what comes tumbling out, we should nod with respect and say, ‘Hell yeah sister, bring it on.’’’

Read Part 1 with Kris Carr on Resilience

Read Part 3 with Gabrielle Bernstein on Miracles Now

Read Part 4 with Danielle LaPorte

Emerging Women Live Coverage Part 1: Kris Carr on Resilience

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The 2nd annual Emerging Women Live conference “Changing the World Through Feminine Leadership and Entrepreneurship,” took place October 9-12, 2014 in New York City — the brainchild of Chantal Pierrat, who served as vice president of sales and marketing for Sounds True publishing company for more than 10 years. She opened the conference explaining how fierce competitiveness used to be the way to achieve success, and now it’s about partnership and collaboration.

“In 10 years women are inheriting two-thirds of this nations wealth and it means working together collectively and empowering ourselves as an individual,” she said opening the conference Thursday night. “Emerging means to come into being, transformation, to become manifest, to come into view, to come out from under. It’s not just happening to women. It’s happening to the feminine.”

She quoted statistics such as 17 percent of boards have women represented, and only 3 percent of women are CEO’s in the United States. But assured the audience, the trends are changing at an amazing rate.

“Right now so we have momentum behind us, and that momentum is turning into an emergence,” she said. “Some studies of major corporations show those most inclusive of women at the top are performing 35 percent better than their counterparts. Diversity is the future. Polarity breeds creativity.”

Kris Carr: The Feminine Side of Resilience
Bestselling author of “Crazy Sexy Diet” and “Crazy Sexy Kitchen,” Kris Carr — known for her passion around green juice and wellness — started her keynote speech talking about the concept of emerging, and explaining like healing, emerging is a process.

“Emerging happens in cycles, it happens in seasons, and your job is to know what season you are in,” she said. “When you know the season you are in you don’t force it. You don’t push the river.”

When we honor our natural rhythm and cycle we get closer to our purpose, which has nothing to do with our vocation or mission, she shared. Our purpose is joy, and we need to evaluate everything we do in our lives from our relationships to our businesses, and ask is this bringing us closer to joy our further away from it? The same is true for the people we are hanging out with — “are they inspiring you or are they tiring you?” she asked the audience.

Our spiritual assignment is to have a dialogue with ourselves on a regular basis to check in and see what we need to feel “sturdy, strong and empowered,” because the more we have this dialogue the more we will become connected with ourselves. For Carr, she knows she needs more time alone and embracing the fact that she is an introvert rather than an extrovert, to hang with solid girlfriends, men in her life that support her, to play on a regular basis, and to have a three-dimensional life, she said.

“What is one thing you need in order to connect with your resilience and with yourself,” she asked the audience.

Carr shared her story of being diagnosed with an incurable form of Stage 4 cancer at age 30, and how she revamped her self-care and diet to learn how to thrive with the disease — eventually giving up the desire to cure it.

“Self-care became my spiritual practice at 31,” she explained, recalling the time she first met the divine feminine in herself. “I met the divine feminine and she said ‘surrender it all. There is a difference between curing and healing. Curing is the physical body — the body you will not have forever. Healing is the spiritual body, and that is what you need to focus on my love, my darling. Learn to accept yourself, my darling.’ You have to love the broken parts of yourself as well. It’s all you, and it’s all teaching you something. It’s all magnificent.”

And acceptance or surrender does not be giving up or putting up with things that you should not from others. It means we never abandon ourselves. It means making our relationship with ourselves — that connection or spiritual assignment — the most important endeavor and commitment we will ever make, said Carr.

“From that place your resilience shines. Nothing can topple you over. As you go for those dreams, take with this mentality you will and enjoy the entire process, not just the accomplishment,” she said. “My challenge I want to offer you is that as you experience this beautiful weekend, and as you get lit up and inspired by all the new tools you want to try, that you remember what you already have … remember to celebrate something you already have. The more you do that, the more you will give permission to this world to do the same.”

Read Part 2 with Sera Beak: Unleashing Your Soul’s Voice HERE

Read Part 3 with Gabrielle Bernstein: Miracles Now HERE

Read Part 4 with Danielle LaPorte HERE

New E-Course by Robert Bell on Finding Joy to Launch on Oprah.com

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As part of an ongoing program to expand its online learning platform on Oprah.com, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is offering an all-new eCourse, taught by renowned pastor and author Rob Bell, called “Practical Guide to Finding Joy and Meaning in Everyday Life,” — available exclusively on Oprah.com. It is now open for pre-registration.

Named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine in 2011 and a New York Times bestselling author, Bell is a featured speaker/tour “trailblazer” on “Oprah’s The Life You Want Weekend,” Oprah Winfrey’s eight-city arena tour traveling through the U.S.

Through humor, big ideas and practical everyday activities, this six-week eCourse will take students on a journey to joy and meaning in their everyday lives, teaching them how to shift perspectives, helping them understand themselves as spiritual beings and re-define what is truly important to them.

Bell will teach students on how they can experience life as a gift and will guide them to mastery of a new, profound and rewarding life path. Course topics include “Unwrapping the Gift of Your Life,” “Embracing Your Whole Self,” “Uncovering the Story Behind Your Story,” “Overcoming FOMO (Fear of Missing Out),” “It is Better to Give and Receive” and “Becoming a Student of Life.”

The six-week course is offered on demand and will be available starting November 2, 2014. Participants will be able to stream all of Bell’s teaching videos and access the online course materials at anytime. The price for the course is $39.99.

Rob Bell’s eCourse joins several other subscription learning offerings on Oprah.com including courses taught by professor and TED speaker Brenè Brown, spiritual life coach and television host Iyanla Vanzant, which launches on October 26, and several meditation experiences featuring Deepak Chopra.

Elevated Existence New Meditation Books & CDs Picks

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Here are Elevated Existence editor’s newest picks for books and CDs on meditation, including a new CD by Marianne Williamson, and a book by Sharon Salzberg.

“Meditations of the Heart: Liberating the Power of Love,” by Andrew Harvey & Marianne Williamson
Bestselling author Marianne Williamson joins spiritual activist Andrew Harvey as they guide listeners through a series of questions and practices to harness the love within, fulfill their purpose and help others.

“Mindfulness @ Work,” by Anna Black
The author, Anna Black, offers short and easy mindfulness meditations for people to use throughout the work day in order to strengthen focus and concentration, enhance work relationships and relieve stress.

“Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement & Peace,” by Sharon Salzberg
Introducing the eight pillars of happiness in the workplace, Sharon Salzberg shares subtle meditations for pre- and post-meeting, finding meaning in seemingly meaningless tasks, dealing with mistakes and more.

The Honest Co. New Air + Fabric Refresher

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The Honest Co., known for it’s non-toxic, all natural products for cleaning, bath and body, and the home, introduced new Air + Fabric Refreshers, natural aromatherapy and deodorizing sprays in three different scents — Orange Cypress, Lavender Vanilla and Lemon Verbena.

The sprays are hypoallergenic, non-toxic, natural and pH blanced to naturally eliminate odors and refresh fabrics without the use of harsh, synthetic chemicals or masking agents, and uses essential oils and botanicals. It also uses zinc salts to eliminate and neutralize odors.

They can be used on linens, bedding, clothing, sofas, carpets, curtains, kitchens, smoke, diaper pails, baby bedding, toys, bathrooms, car seats, car interiors, trash cans and more.

For more information, visit www.honest.com.

The Art of Manifestation

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By Sherry Winn

Many people ask me about how to manifest their desires. They want a simple formula. Something they can do a single time and get instantaneous results. Imagine doing something just one time and being an expert. Wouldn’t that be awesome?

In the 23 years I was a collegiate basketball coach, we never practiced one time and then thought we were prepared to play a game. We created what we wanted by continually practicing, revising and testing our skills. It was an ongoing process to become a good team.

Every year I coached, I learned something new that enhanced my ability. I became more effective and efficient because I had enhanced my skills through repetition and research.

Manifesting your dreams is a process. It requires awareness and the desire to improve who you are.

You might have been practicing manifesting for years without awareness because you allowed your thoughts to think you rather than being in control of your thoughts. Maybe you created unwanted circumstances or people in your life by putting all your energy into what you did not want. Maybe you manifested dis-ease because you put too much energy into guilt or shame. Maybe you formed a life of continual challenges because you believed there was no gain without pain.

Now that you are aware energy goes where attention flows, you can begin to practice where you put your attention. This requires effort. Thoughts flow through us quickly and many times these are thoughts we have practiced thinking, which means we have to develop a new habit of thinking different thoughts.

For example, if you believed there was no gain without pain, and you told yourself that message 30 times a day for 5 years, you would have lodged that thought pattern into your brain 54,650 times. In order to change the neural networks you have created through repetition, you replace your no gain, no pain thought with another thought. Instead of believing gain is associated with pain, you shift your belief system to the idea that goals are attained through sustained attention and right action. Pain does not need to be part of the process.

How do you practice manifesting?

1. Take the time to become aware of your thoughts. Write down your 10 biggest beliefs and then list how those beliefs are serving you. If your beliefs are not serving you, it is time to change them.

2. Read personal development books that focus on the positive.

3. Use your car as a library. When you get in your car, commit to listening to 10-15 minutes of an audio book that will help you grow.

4. Meditate daily. This is huge. Meditation opens your awareness and it allows you to practice letting go of unwanted thoughts.

5. Assign one notebook to your goals. Fold the page in half at the midline. Every day write down five goals written in terms of affirmations (as if the goal has already occurred) on one half of the page. On the other half of the page, write down what beliefs are preventing you from achieving your goals.

6. Note the beliefs you have that are preventing you from achieving your goals. Work on changing those beliefs.

7. Repeat your affirmations throughout the day. See the affirmations in your head. Act as if you are already living your dreams.

By practicing to manifest your dreams, you not only receive what you want, you enhance who you are. This is the true practice of manifestation — the process of becoming wiser, more joyful, happier, more loving and kind. Once you become who you want to be, you attract more of what you want.

Sherry Winn is an author, EFT Practitioner, Certified Law of Attraction and Master Life Coach and a motivational speaker, whose topics include “Making the Impossible Possible,” “Loving Challenges,” and “Catching Your Dreams.” As a former elite athlete competing at the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988 in the sport of team handball and head collegiate coach for 23 years, she possesses a deep passion for helping others become motivated to reach their highest levels of success.

Winn overcame her fears and limitations when she contracted chronic pain at the age of 33 and was told by 17 different medical professionals there was no answer. Through books, meditation, mentors and Webinars, she discovered the power of healing through positive thinking.

To receive a free 50-minute Law of Attraction coaching session, or more information about Winn, she can be contacted by email at sherrymwinn@gmail.com, through her website at www.ucancreatesuccess.com or on Facebook.