Hi, Marcia here!

I'm involved in a novel writers competition during this month of November. I'm into my 3rd of 4 weeks. I've written over 30,000 words and 27 chapters so far. And I'm loving both the process of writing every day, and the bold and the brash of my characters. However, my characters are stuck. Anyone care to make some suggestions?

This is the premise of the story:
Four friends - all living their lives in varying stages of spiritual growth, are planning to offer a weekend workshop to teach people how to: recognize limiting beliefs; to step into making choices based on vibrational matches & synchronicities; and to begin to 'see' their reality from the perspective of being a co-creator.
Currently my characters are brainstorming to build the basis of the hands-on aspect of their event. They need to find ways to involve the workshop participants in small group exercises - maybe 3 exercises over the course of the workshop. These exercises are intended to excite and spark many of the participants to move forward with the delights, challenges and persistence that those of you here on this forum (plus Mike and myself, naturally) feel so passionate about.

Personally, my own spiritual journey started over 40 years ago. At that time no one spoke about spiritual journeys. Even thinking such thoughts was considered taboo back then. There was no one to get me started in this fashion - to teach me, if you will. I had to learn on my own. Seth Speaks was my first encounter with the metaphysical. In this book I'm writing, I want to encourage others to step into this life with solid guidance and powerful teachers ready to give of their own life journeys and experiences. So I need some help if you would, please!

Here's what I require:
Do any of you have any direct experience with exercises you tried early on in your spiritual journey that you found useful in increasing your understanding and, hopefully, ignited your passion - be it Seth or Abraham or Tolle or Holmes or whatever? Would you care to share those techniques/exercises knowing that they may get published some day?

Let me say thank you in advance to any and all of you who may respond to this request.

In Light & Laughter,
Marcia

Hi Marcia

My search started 30 years ago when all I could find in the bookshops was philosophy and/or religion. Then, in the early eighties I found Joseph Murphy's 'The Power of you Subconscious Mind'. I had quite a lot of success with affirmation and visualization around that time. I suppose because it was the nearest thing to an explanation of how the mind works that I could find at that time, so it appealed to me more than the "do this and that because our religion says it makes you worthy".

Maybe not quite the exercises you had in mind, unless you count repetition of affirmations as an exercise
Affirmation was my first success in healing too (when my daughter was a baby)

Just my starting point, if it helps in any way

Good luck with the book

Love, Max

Thanks, Max! I'm looking for techniques, exercises, or even topics. Two of mine for example have been 'beliefs' and 'trust'. Appreciate your assistance!

In Light & Laughter,
Marcia

BTW: I've not read Joseph Murphy's book - thanks for the recommendation! And I'm delighted to know this journey helped you heal along the way. It does that, doesn't it!

Though affirmations are a bit tricky to do in a group of over 100 people, I appreciate that they worked for you! Thanks for sharing!

Just having written here to this group with my request, my characters are already more open and willing to receive as much guidance as they can handle. They've now added 'love' and 'relationships' to their mandatory list of topics.

Hello marcia
I got started with my journey in 93 when i came across Rick Stacks book on OOBE i had my first OOBE via a guide and was instanly hooked .

So maybe one of your teachers could be a dream art scientist,who help people get aquainted with there dreamscapes,inner training centers,symbolisim,and there multidimentional self{ie. dreamself,probable selves,past present &future selves,reincanational selves,inner self/all knowing self.

Now u have me feeling all inspired LOL
Hope i was a help


LoVe,
Melissa

Hey Melissa!
Thanks for taking the time to respond and I'm delighted that in the thinking of this, it has gotten you inspired! Don't you love it when we move to the energy of our highest excitement!

You have brought up for me a great many possibilities - way more than one character could potentially discuss or live out in one novel - no matter how long the novel ... lol! Yet you have intrigued me with some of the concepts. Definitely worthy of a serious review.

Appreciations to you for them!

In Light & Laughter,
Marcia

In Michael Talbot's book, The Holographic Universe, he describes an encounter he had at an early age with a hypnotist his father invited to their home. Demonstrating, he hypnotized the father and told him when he woke he would not be able to see his young daughter. When he awoke, even though she was standing in front of him, he could not see her. The hypnotist even put a pocket watch behind the daughter's back and had the father read the time and the inscription on the watch 'through the daughter.'

Michael Thoms interviewed Michael Talbot on his radio show, New Dimensions, and that audio is available as a MP3 (really inexpensive) on their web site. Michael Talbot gives many other excellent examples of reality benders in that interview. It's one of my favorites.

Seth's coverage of hypnosis would be a very good lead in to having the audience participate in the hypnosis exercise. Seeing a demonstration of that kind is a good way to demonstrate that there is much more to what we think reality is all about and also about how beliefs control what we see as reality.

Also as an early ice breaker, you might use 'psi cards' and have the audience break up in groups and see who can accurately name the symbols on the cards before they are revealed. Or you can use color cards - have them turned face down and have the audience guess the colors by holding their hands over the cards and "feel" the energy of the colors. Any little demonstration to open them up to the idea that they are more than what they thought they were that morning.

And then there is a small remote viewing exercise. Have someone/volunteer with an illness, malady or something sit in the middle of the circle and have the circle members scan the person's body to identify what is "wrong". You lead them through the various body systems - "Let's view the skeletal system - start with the head - if you see anything - spots, dark areas, things that don't fit - write it down. Now, let's view the circulatory system." etc. After going through the body systems, let each circle member tell what they got and let the person in the middle confirm their findings.

Then you bring in a psychic/medical intuitive - and have them scan a few volunteers. Because you started the exercise with the audience members doing their own remote viewing, it cuts down on the skepticism when you have a powerful psychic do physical readings.

Fun stuff. I've done all but the hypnosis and it creates a hunger for more.

Billie