My friend Madisyn Taylor’s new book, Learning to Live, is on it’s way to the New York Times best seller list!!! I’m so happy for her and want to help her get there. I recommend you take a look at the first 45 pages for free. And if you buy her book you receive some amazing free gifts, Mother’s MP3 download on Love is one of them. See below for the details. Enjoy!

Wouldn’t it be great if we were born with instruction manuals? Each one would be different based on what we needed to learn, but the basics would be the same: how to create healthy relationships, how to deal with sorrow and pain, how to reach our goals, and how to know what we want to do with our lives when we grow up. DailyOM: Learning to Live is the next best thing to a personal instruction manual: a guiding light to reassure us that we’re on the right path, and to help fix us when we feel broken.

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ABOUT THE BOOK:
In this new book, based on the popular Website DailyOM, co-founder Madisyn Taylor seamlessly weaves together her award-winning inspirational thoughts with her achingly honest personal story, revealing the inspiration behind many of the DailyOM messages that touch millions of people every day. DailyOM: Learning to Live is the next best thing to a personal instruction manual: a guiding light to reassure us that we’re on the right path, and to help fix us when we feel broken.

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The Path to Surrender by Robin Mastro

I have been lulled into a deep sleep and awaken to the sound of drums beating. The rhythm is unfamiliar, yet beckons me. I feel it vibrating up my legs, compelling me to listen and move to its beat. It calls me to action, but I have been blinded for so long by ways of being that no longer serve me and I walk between two worlds. The fear of letting go is palpable. It moves through my body in waves that ebb and flow. I stiffen with pain and hesitation, my mind racing to make sense of unfamiliar territory, looking for ways to find higher ground. In a moment of clarity, I am reminded to focus upon what is true to my heart as I let go and step into thin air.

What is there left to understand when the mind cannot explain its way out of a crazy world, when even the experts have lost their legacy. I have relied upon my mind to make sense of the illusion for too long. It has played its role as observer, reporter, critic, tormentor, storyteller, martyr and victim. It has taught me to crave and compete, be acceptable and accept less than I knew of my worth. It has showed me the pain of shame and duality, distrust, loneliness and alienation. I have seen myself through eyes of women and men alike, and I have forgotten to dance at the edge of the fire.

I am reminded of love that lies deep within me, breathing words of faith and surrender into my heart. Wake up, let go, remember Spirit and the tenacity of the soul. You are here to walk your own path least taken, one of courage whose foundation is built in the fires of the temple. You have come this way before in flowing gowns, down darkened hallways to sacred sanctuaries carrying lighted candles and torches to do ceremony honoring the divine and the power of the feminine.

Wake up and let go, remember the blood pulsating through you moves through the hearts and veins and minds of women everywhere, uniting us in one voice, one of peace, love and purpose. We are not the doers of the world, but the bearers of a potent force. Through us is birthed our future dream, one of change and healing more powerful than any weapon, or fear, or lie, or belief we’ve ever accepted as truth. We have all come to these crossroads where fear has left us tired and craving solace. We can no longer hope and wish for the old ways to return. They have been taken from us forever. Now, we are stronger than ever before and we can surrender to the inner voice. It won’t lead you astray. Just listen.

I lie on a bed of sweet smelling roses and dream and pray for this time to awaken in the hearts of women and men alike: A time when our collective dreaming manifests as one voice, a time when we see clearly with wisdom and knowing, a time when the rightness of our choices bring goodness and truth. We are powerful beyond measure. If we listen we will all hear the sound of drums beating, awakening us to the future that is here, waiting.

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I finally stopped and realized it has been months since my last post. I would like to claim that I have been wildly busy with all sorts of abundance, but the truth is I have been more busy than usual with a heavy dose of procrastination thrown in. The course, Falling in Love with Yourself,  Mother Mary put together for DailyOm.com was successful and enjoyed a three month run as their #1 course. I felt surprised and grateful, yet cunning fear was germinating like a seed buried in soil. The course generated interest and traffic for my website with many inquiries to attend to, yet instead of blogging about it and attempting to generate more interest, I fell off the momentum wagon and convinced myself I only had time to focus on the flurry of emails and the rest of my normal work week.

After the last workshop, Mother asked us to commune with our critical selves and discover what our biggest fears the critical self was helping us not to face. She explained that all that criticism it has kept up over the years was designed to keep us safe from the things we couldn’t face when they were first happening. The two that keep coming forward into my knowing is fear of exposure and fear of abandonment. No wonder I’ve done so little over the last sixteen years I’ve been channeling to offer Mother Mary’s teachings to the wider world. The potential for thousands to be drawn to Mother through me is likely, which plays into the fear of exposure, and the potential for those thousands to move on to something else is also possible leaving me in the feeling of being abandoned.

I realize these fears are based in my past of attracting abuse and allowing it to happen long after my childhood was over. I haven’t been in abusive situations since my mid twenties and haven’t ever been abandoned as an adult. Yet these persist. I have faced my fears in bits like bread crumbs, each one when consumed and integrated leads me home. Today as I look for the next crumb it seems larger than most. To consume these two fears by facing and possibly feeling them requires a leap of faith that they won’t consume me.

What I feel my soul is whispering to me in it’s still small voice is the realization that it is the avoidance of them that will consume me. At forty four I run the risk of bitterness as I turn away from my destiny yet again. My critical self tells me that to risk is to die, my soul tells to the opposite. I am coming to believe my soul while Mother shows my the path to forgiveness with my critical self. I am accustomed to berating myself at perceived lost opportunities instead of expressing gratitude to my critical self for a job well done. And then teaching her it isn’t necessary for her to continue. I’m being asked to assign her new duties until I can face what she has been holding in trust for me all these years. The resulting integration providing a new definition of safety, one that is based in Spirit rather than my limitations.  

I have missed my blog and the voice it gives me. It is part of my healing. Today I can appreciate my procrastination for it’s childish protective qualities and remind myself that with Mother illuminating my path I have nothing to worry about.

Happy New Year!

Namaste’ Danielle