It has truly been a pleasure to know you!

Just want to say thank you for inspiring me. I love your blog!

Bren

And thank you for putting the author’s name here of ‘Power of the Now’ – it is in my ‘reading room’!
AND – that’s wonderful news about his new book and the series on Oprah – I am certainly going to have a look at this.

Thank you too for your kind words – No, I will not quit. Yes, I have my ‘slip and slide’ days too, more so, for now – but decreasing. They will always be there though, for this is the nature of human beings – and those times make the good times even more beautiful

- and these days certainly help to fine-tune ourselves as you say – that’s a wonderful way to look at it – I will remember that, each time I catch myself falling into negative thoughts – I will say ‘stop!’ – and ask myself

- what am I feeling right now?
- why am I feeling this?
- Is there something I can do about it?
- What can I learn from this?
- If I cannot change it, can I just accept it and wait it out, knowing that it will pass for better things…..?

We shall all inspire each other!

And BIG BIG HUGS – hee hee

Meg
BTW – I just added your blog to my Technorati Favourites

SO nice to *see* and *hear* you here – I feel as though I have been hugged by you!

We are all on our journey – no one of us ahead of the other – as each of our journey’s have their own individual time tables. Each of us are creating at our perfect personal pace.

So yes there are days that I slip and slide — but those are the most fantastic days – if I can look at them – not as a mistake – but as the opportunity for me to fine-tune who I am!

The book you speak of – The Power of Now – is written by Eckhart Tolle – I read this powerful book several years ago….

You might be interested in his new book “A New Earth” – I just ordered my copy — and here is some great news – Oprah and Eckhart will be doing a 10 week session on his book at Oprah’s website and it is Free!! You can go to http://oprah.com to get all the info!

Thanks so much for visiting, for your kind words and for not quitting — You are a true Inspiration!

Big Hugs,
Ellie

you are a wonderful soul and I feel, a kindred spirit! When you write, I understand, deep within me, and I can relate to what it is that you have been/are feeling – its almost as if you ‘are’ me! But we are ‘me’!!

You sent me an email and I apologise for not responding (I think it was via bloglog, or similiar), because I posted a link to one of your articles – about ‘being worthy to be worthy’ – on my self help blog.

- and I thank you so much for your comments about my site too – I was starting to doubt whether I should keep blogging because there are so many wonderful self help sites, such as yours. But – and I wrote about this recently on my blog – this is not important – if I can help even just one person and make a difference (including to myself!) – then its all worth it.

I haven’t read your post -’life changing event’ yet, but I will, so I write with a little ignorance here. But I can understand such events, as I have had major life-chanigng events over the last 2-3 years, including an incurable illness and loss of my job – faced with no hope, possible death, being alone, inummerable complications (going blind, losing teeth, and my ‘faulse belly-button!! – think I will write a book with that title!!) – I won’t go on about my ‘sob’ story….

I too was always searching, often outside of myself, trying to find the answers. Trying to ‘fix’ myself! I hoped for a new life, but subconsciously, I didn’t feel worthy. I didn’t feel that it was possible, especially with the illness and physical complications.

I was waiting for people to come and ‘rescue’ me.
I was thinking that, with all the ‘work’ I was doing on the internet, in trying to find work from home opportunities, I was progressing.

But in reality, I was getting nowhere. I was always ‘preliving the future’, and going back to the past. And forgetting about the ‘NOW’, despite my own advice at my self help site. Easier to give advice than to take it!

The power to just ‘be’ and to ‘accept’.
To stop ‘resisting’ life – because that is so negative and focuses the wrong energy.

I thought you might be interested, in this respect, about a wonderful book I just discovered called: ‘The Power of Now’. I also have one about ‘Doing It Now’, but that one is more practical’.

Instead, the ‘Power of Now’ is quite spiritual and about just ‘being’, finding yourself in the ‘now’. – I literally cried as I read the author’s story, which involved a life-changing moment, and his story was almost identical to mine, in reaching a critical moment in life, a ‘choice’ of which path to take.

I finally ‘understood’, not at a ‘mind-conscious’ level, but at a much deeper level (its hard to explain!).

Time of past and future is a human concept – it doesn’t really exist. Thus, we need not worry about the future. We can stop our inner chatter and ‘what if’ thoughts. The answers will come.

There is a nice quote:

“Always say “YES” to the present moment. Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life – and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you”

There are many other wonderful quotes – to keep one in the now, and to help us just ‘be’ – in a place where there is no fear or suffering or pain (only in the ‘mind-ego-time’ level). That is why it is so important to live in the now as much as one can and not to miss out on life – to be ‘conscious’ at this level.

I wish I could write more on this book – I will on my blog I think, because it is literally life-changing (for people who are ready to receive the message in this book).

Anyway, I tend to digress a bit! I just want to say thank you again for such a wonderful site to visit, to uplift one’s soul, and to know that one is not alone in this world. Your experiences are so similiar to my own, within your own journey – and I would really love to perhaps ‘talk’ one day, if you would like to also?

I am so happy for you that you are finding yourself/have found yourself, and that you are at peace. Finding that inner peace is a rarity and I commend you! You are living your dreams. You are an inspiration.

And I know now that is IS possible – I too can have a wonderful life. Because while I do have a self help site and, while I do have the ‘knowledge’ and ‘experiences’/background to help others – I am still on this journey, but now with more hope and belief.

Now – I know what it is I need to do – I read your articles and believe even more that I CAN – and I take it slowly

- we must also beware of ‘beating ourselves over the head’ if we don’t always get it right all of the time. I have a motto on my site ‘Always be kind and gentle with yourself

I am not perfect. But I am not ‘broken’ either.
I am learning to be ‘me’ again, and to just ‘be’ in the ‘now’!
To find the peace that you have found

- thank you for helping me BELIEVE again

Again, I would love to know if you would like to become contacts/friends – via bloglog and/or via email – you can visit me at my site (hope you don’t mind me putting this here), where my email address is: http://selfhelp4growth.blogspot.com

(I also have a blog about my illness, a more personal account, but haven’t updated it for quite awhile – its at http://surviving-crohnsdisease.blogspot.com (again, I hope you don’t mind me putting this here, but I thought it might also help?)

(I will try to find the email you sent to me and reply)

Finally(!) – You thank us for being a part of your life. I thank you for being a part of mine – and all readers here

Warm Regards and Blessings to you,
Megan (meg)
Adelaide, South Australia
PS – and yes, I might see you at ‘rapid niche websites’ too!

Thank You!!