It is the day after Thanksgiving and I feel more grateful than ever.

Hope you all do too.

Since I am away today, wanted to share some comfort stuff that have come into my in box recently.

Sharing this stuff,  circulating it out there in the world, makes the world a better place.

At least I think that to  be so.

My dear friend Tom Stine writes, “So, if you want the single most practical “personal growth technique” there is, one that works in all areas and in all ways, then I strongly suggest you get serious about awakening. Yes, I’ve written that you have no control over awakening and that it is not something you can make happen, and that is unfortunately true. However, even going down the path and stumbling along is FAR superior to anything else out there. You need very little in the way of techniques, experience, fancy retreats, etc, to bump along the path. And you never know what will happen. I believe it is Ken Wilbur who says:

“Awakening is an accident. But we can make ourselves more accident prone.”

Jerry White, co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in banning landmines, has asked thousands of amputee survivors this exact question. His new book, Getting Up When Life Knocks You Down: 5 Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis, outlines five cycles, or stages, to help survivors overcome their worst nightmares:

1. Face Facts
Breaking through denial can be the hardest step of all. White says it took him two years to reach this phase following the loss of his leg.
2. Choose Life
Despite dark times, hold on to the hope that tomorrow will be better than the pain of today.
3. Reach Out
Resist the temptation to isolate yourself. Seek support from family, peers and other empathetic individuals.
4. Get Moving
Find the emotional determination to get unstuck from the past, get to the next day, get in your wheelchair, get out of the house and so on.
5. Give Back
The “secret sauce” for resilience. When you get out of entitlement mode and give to others, you’ll succeed with style and power.

The secret to happiness:

Make peace with your mind.
Make peace with the person you think you are.
Make peace with the world.
Make peace with life.
Make peace with everything.
Everything.

You, consciousness, make peace.
The mind can’t make peace with itself.
Make peace with all that you are.

The only cause of suffering is your argument with what is.

I suggest you love, today and every day. Just love and love more. Feel and feel more and lean into support through it all.

I love you, XO

Laura

P.S. Leah, enjoy your vacation in surfers paradise and I love your new intentions for weekly blogs…

And I am super duper proud of you for your accomplishments, the trade and all you have changed and moved through over these almost 91 days.

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Hello World.

Today was one of those days that I experienced more emotions than one can imagine experiencing in a day.

Just picture a roller coaster. I giggle about it now. All good. It is in the staying.

The highs were high and the lows were low. And it is all just perfect. I have emotions, I am not my emotions. I have feelings, I am not my feelings. So freeing. La De Da.

My call with John Gray went great. He is a powerhouse of information.

I suggest everyone go to www.marsvenus.com and read about what great stuff John is up to in the world. His cleansing retreats are fantastic and he offered a discount to those of us on the call. He has one this week for those of us in the Bay Area. Just mention it when you phone his office which is on the website.

John is full of information and he shared material about a liver cleanse, which I am happy to send onto anyone who requests it. Just email me at Laura@OnePinky.com.

I brought up the liver cleanse because of my deep desire to one start another movement called, “Save The Liver.com”. It is coming. Our recycling centers AKA the liver, need tender love and care and John agreed.

To our organs, especially our Livers, Hearts and Minds!

I am blessed, the day in America is almost complete here for me and as my dear friend Tricia Barrett said to me tonight, the sun will rise again tomorrow and it will be a new day Laura…

Thank God for new days and for the learning in them all.

Love, XO

Laura

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Leah,

I was thinking today that we should publish our back and forth posts, cause there is a lot of insight and meat here. What do you think?

I am really enjoying this ceremony of writing daily. You inspire me to want to do it even when I don’t want to. Thank you for that Sweetheart.

Speaking of Sweet, I hope my mailing resonates with many readers on the dangers of Sugar…and everything in moderation…however, people need to be aware of the impact we are having on our bodies with food, with our thoughts, with our actions.

My dear friend Joe Tye is amazing. He gets it. He gets this mind, body spirit connection and wrote a great piece that he gave me permission to share with you all today…

In honor of Halloween, Joe wrote about his experience getting bit by a spider in the grand canyon and the impact and insight that had on him…Since tomorrow is Halloween and black spiders are part of the Halloween culture, I thought this was a good time to share this with you all. And a little bit of background, Joe goes to the Grand Canyon every year, sole and he also leads hikes there.  One of these years I want to go with him and I will.

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