Dining & Living with Passion

by Alan Cohen

“Excuse me sir, we are going to need this spot”, a deep voice awakened me from my sunset reverie. I looked up, brushed the sand from my cheek, and saw a young man in black tuxedo trousers and a short white waiter’s jacket, his head crowned by the palm tree swaying behind him. I picked up my towel, moved ten yards to the left, and watched him and an assistant set up a dining table on the grassy hill. They prepared the table with fine white linen and cutlery as if it was overlooking not the beach, but the New York skyline.

“Is there some kind of party happening?” I asked.

“It’s a wedding anniversary.”

“How many people are you preparing for?”

“Two.”

“Two?”

“Yes, it’s the couple’s twenty-fifth anniversary. The husband is surprising his wife with a private catered dinner overlooking the beach.”

In just a few hours, on a verdant knoll overlooking Wailea Beach in Maui, a happy woman would have the surprise of her life. I imagined the couple strolling along casually when the husband says, “Why don’t we sit here, honey?” As she sits, perplexed, a gourmet restaurant crew emerges from the behind the bushes and serves them a meal fit for a king and his queen, before one of the most spectacular backdrops on the planet.

Let’s hear it for romance, folks.

Passion – The Juice of Life

Passion is a very holy thing. You can lose many material things, but if you lose your passion, you’re a goner. It is the very juice of life, the electricity that sparks all human growth, expression, and achievement. Passion is the hand of God reaching into humanity to elevate it to divinity.

The film Sirens makes the statement that God is knowable through the appreciation of beauty and wonder right here on earth. Based on a true story, an uptight Anglican minister and his even stuffier wife are dispatched to mend the evil ways of an Australian painter who has attained notoriety for drawing nudes. When the couple arrives at the painter’s compound, they find that he has surrounded himself with all manner of color and delight, including nude Elle McPherson (why not have it all?). During their stay, the priest and his wife undergo a striking transformation – they begin to appreciate the earth as an expression of Spirit. Instead of convincing the painter that he is a sinner, they open up to a new discovery of divinity. While they intended to shut his heart down, he set theirs on fire.

Jay Larrin sings a marvelous song, “Don’t Let the Song Go out of Your Life”. It reflects some important questions asked by shaman Angeles Arrien: When did you stop singing? When did you stop dancing? When did you grow uncomfortable with the sweet territory of silence? When did you stop being enchanted by stories?

In one way or another, all of us have sold out on our passion. Perhaps even at an early age, we traded our joy for approval, acceptance, and the illusion of security. But the only real security is in living life from the heart, not hiding out in convention.

The good news is that it is never too late to have a happy childhood. While we can stifle our passion, we can never extinguish it. At any moment we can take it back and start to live as if our life depends on it. Then we become a master painter, all of life our palette.

Romancing Life with Passion

In the Los Angeles Airport, I saw a young man propose to his girlfriend by holding up a huge “Will you marry me?” sign when she met him at the jetway. My friend Karl proposed to his wife (in front of a video camera) atop a high ropes course. (Symbolic?) Another friend spelled out his proposal in a flower arrangement on the deck of a cruise ship, and then invited his beloved to stand on the pier and gaze down at the ship.

Real romance is not confined to sunset dinners and marriage proposals. True romance is a quality of aliveness that we bring to everything we do. We can bring passion to our career (indeed it is a coffin if we do not), to our home, and to our spiritual life. If your spiritual path is not loaded with passion, you cannot truly call it spiritual. The word “enthusiasm” comes from the Greek, “en Theos” – in God. This means that whenever you are enthusiastic, you are in God. Therefore the most powerful way to bring God to life is to do what you are enthusiastic about.

Let’s have a passion revolution. Random acts of kindness have gotten a lot of press over the last few years. Now let’s go for the gusto and get on with random acts of passion. Why settle for kindness when you can be a twenty-four hour lover?

Make a list of the ten most outrageous things you could do for yourself and your loved ones. Then get on with living your visions. Before long your entire life will be set at a table with an unexcelled view.

In Mango Court by the “Island Naturals” Natural Food Store

• Nurturing the willingness to let go
• Controlling the mind, and
• Learning how forgiveness of self and others releases us.
• Releasing the Need

“I cross bridges with joy and with ease.”

I love “how to’s.” All the theory in the world is useless unless we know how to apply it and make a change. I have always been a very pragmatic, practical person with a great need to know how to do things.

The principles we will be working with at this time are:

Nurturing the willingness to let go

Controlling the mind, and

Learning how forgiveness of self and others releases us.

Releasing the Need
Sometimes when we try to release a pattern, the whole situation seems to get worse for a while. This is not a bad thing. It is a sign that the situation is beginning to move. Our affirmations are working, and we need to keep going.

Examples:

We are working on increasing prosperity, and we lose our wallet.

We are working on improving our relationships, and we have a fight.

We are working on becoming healthy, and we catch a cold.

We are working on expressing our creative talents and abilities, and we get fired.

Sometimes the problem moves in a different direction, and we begin to see and understand more. For example, let’s assume you are trying to give up smoking and you are saying, “I am willing to release the need for cigarettes.”

As you continue to do this, you notice your relationships becoming more uncomfortable. Don’t despair, this is a sign of the process working.

You might ask yourself a series of questions like: Am I willing to give up uncomfortable relationships? Were my cigarettes creating a smoke screen so I wouldn’t see how uncomfortable these relationships are? Why am I creating these relationships?

You notice the cigarettes are only a symptom and not a cause. Now you are developing insight and understanding that will set you free.

You begin to say, “I am willing to release the need for uncomfortable relationships.”

Then you notice the reason you’re so uncomfortable is that other people always seem to be criticizing you.

Being aware that we always create all of our experiences, you now begin to say, “I am willing to release the need to be criticized.”

You then think about criticism, and you realize that as a child you received a lot of criticism. That little kid inside of you only feels at home when it is being criticized. Your way of hiding from this had been to create a “smoke screen”.

Perhaps you see the next step as affirming, “I am willing to forgive…”

As you continue to do your affirmations, you may find that cigarettes no longer attract you, and the people in your life no longer criticize you. Then you know you have released your need.

This usually takes a little while to work out. If you are gently persistent and are willing to give yourself a few quiet moments each day to reflect on your process of change, you will get the answers. The Intelligence within you is the same Intelligence that created this entire planet. Trust your Inner Guidance to reveal to you whatever it is you need to know.

Exercise: Releasing the Need
In a workshop situation, I would have you do this exercise with a partner. However, you can do it equally as well using a mirror, a big one, if possible.

Think for a moment about something in your life you want to change. Go to the mirror and look into your eyes and say out loud, “I now realize that I have created this condition, and I am now willing to release the pattern in my consciousness that is responsible for this condition.” Say it several times, with feeling.

If you were with a partner, I would have your partner tell you if he really thought you meant it. I would want you to convince your partner. Ask yourself if you really mean it. Convince yourself in the mirror that this time you are ready to step out of the bondage of the past.

At this point many people get scared because they don’t know HOW to do this releasing. They are afraid to commit themselves until they know all the answers. It’s only more resistance. Just pass through it. One of the great things is that we do not have to know how. All we need is to be willing. The Universal Intelligence or your subconscious mind will figure out the hows. Every thought you think and every word you speak is being responded to, and the point of power is in this moment. The thoughts you are thinking and the words you are declaring at this moment are creating your future.

Your Mind Is a Tool
You are much more than your mind. You may think that your mind is running the show, but that is only because you have trained your mind to think in this way. You can also untrain and retrain this tool of yours.

Your mind is a tool for you to use in any way you wish. The way you now use your mind is only a habit, and habits, any habits, can be changed if we want to do so, or even if we only know it is possible to do so.

Quiet the chatter of your mind for a moment, and really think about this concept: YOUR MIND IS A TOOL YOU CAN CHOOSE TO USE ANY WAY YOU WISH.

The thoughts you “choose” to think create the experiences you have. If you believe that it is hard or difficult to change a habit or a thought, then your choice of this thought will make it true for you. If you would choose to think, “It is becoming easier for me to make changes”, then your choice of this thought will make that true for you.

Controlling the Mind
There is an incredible power and intelligence within you that is constantly responding to your thoughts and words. As you learn to control your mind by the conscious choice of thoughts, you align yourself with this power.

Do not think that your mind is in control. You are in control of your mind. You use your mind. You can stop thinking those old thoughts.

When your old thinking tries to come back and say, “It’s so hard to change,” take mental control. Say to your mind, “I now choose to believe it is becoming easier for me to make changes.” You may have to have this conversation with your mind several times for it to acknowledge that you are in control and that what you say goes.

The Only Thing You Ever Have Any Control of Is Your Current Thought
Your old thoughts are gone; there is nothing you can do about them except live out the experiences they caused. Your current thought, the one you are thinking right now, is totally under your control.

Example:

If you have a little child who has been allowed to stay up as late as she wishes for a long time, and then you make a decision that you now want this child to go to bed at 8:00 every night, what do you think the first night will be like?

The child will rebel against this new rule and may kick and scream and do her best to stay out of bed. If you relent at this time, the child wins and will try to control you forever.

However, if you calmly stick to your decision and firmly insist that this is the new bedtime, the rebellion will lessen. In two or three nights, the new routine will be established.

It is the same thing with your mind. Of course it will rebel at first. It does not want to be retrained. But you are in control, and if you stay focused and firm, in a very short time the new way of thinking will be established. And you will feel so good to realize that you are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.

Exercise: Letting Go
As you read this, take a deep breath, and as you exhale, allow all the tension to leave your body. Let your scalp and your forehead and your face relax. Your head does not need to be tense in order for you to read. Let your tongue and your throat and your shoulders relax. You can hold a book with relaxed arms and hands. Do that now. Let your back and your abdomen and your pelvis relax. Let your breathing be at peace as you relax your legs and feet.

Is there a big change in your body since you began the previous paragraph? Notice how much you hold on. If you are doing it with your body, then you are doing it with your mind.

In this relaxed, comfortable position, say to yourself, “I am willing to let go. I release. I let go. I release all tension. I release all fear. I release all anger. I release all guilt. I release all sadness. I let go of all old limitations. I let go, and I am at peace. I am at peace with myself. I am at peace with the process of life. I am safe.”

Go over this exercise two or three times. Feel the ease of letting go. Repeat it whenever you feel thoughts of difficulty coming up. It takes a little practice for the routine to become a part of you.

When you put yourself into this peaceful state first, it becomes easy for your affirmations to take hold. You become open and receptive to them. There is no need to struggle or stress or strain. Just relax and think the appropriate thoughts. Yes, it is this easy.

Physical Releasing
Sometimes we need to experience a physical letting go. Experiences and emotions can get locked in the body. Screaming in the car with all the windows rolled up can be very releasing if we have been stifling our verbal expression. Beating the bed or kicking pillows is a harmless way to release pent-up anger, as is playing tennis or running.

Awhile ago, I had a pain in my shoulder for a day or two. I tried to ignore it, but it wouldn’t go away. Finally, I sat down and asked myself, “What is happening here? What am I feeling?”

I realized, “It feels like burning. Burning… burning… that means anger. What are you angry about?”

I couldn’t think of what I was angry about, so I said, “Well, let’s see if we can find out.” I put two large pillows on the bed and began to hit them with a lot of energy.

After about twelve hits, I realized exactly what I was angry about. It was so clear. So I beat the pillows even harder and made some noise and released the emotions from my body. When I got through, I felt much better, and the next day my shoulder was fine.

The Secret of the Dream Catcher By Keith Varnum

A Dream Catcher is a hoop—a circle of life—on which is woven a web. Adorning the hoop are feathers, bones, crystals and other sacred items that represent your dreams. The web acts as a filter. Good dreams are captured in the web, sliding down the feathers and into your life. Nightmares pass through the web.

A Dream Catcher can be a unique wall hanging. A good luck charm. … Or an effective manifestation tool!

Using a Dream Catcher as a tool can bring you what you want in life.

The difference in the power of your Dream Catcher lies in knowing the secret.

The Secret

The secret of the Dream Catcher is like all profound spiritual truths—it’s not really a secret at all!

Metaphysical truth is truth that’s beyond (meta) physical. It’s hidden from sight—that is, hidden from ordinary physical sight. Not concealed deliberately, but effectively.

 Hidden by what? By the perceptual filters of our social upbringing. Our cultural programming. The beliefs passed on to us through parents, schooling and mainstream media.

The Good News

The Good News is that since all spiritual truth is only truth hidden from ordinary view, all you have to do is change your ordinary point of view to find it!

If you alter your perspective on the journey of life, you can easily discover all the “secret” truths that will make your life happy, healthy and abundant. A change in your perspective changes your perception.

That is, if you vary what you’re looking for—and therefore, how or where you’re looking for it—you’re more likely to find it.

For example, if you’ve been told that the secret to life is out there somewhere, you’ll look out there for it. If you’ve been taught that the power you seek is in a thing, or another human being, or organization, or belief—you’ll be searching for it in an object, person, group or concept.

Switch Your Viewpoint

You may or may not have found what you are looking for. If you haven’t, try modifying the perspective of your search.

For example, if you switch your viewpoint to seeking the secret within yourself, you may quickly find the gold you’ve been longing for.

Where Is the Dream Catcher?

Where is the Dream Catcher? … in the hoop and string of the spider’s web you have woven? … or in the weaver?

Who (what) is the Dream Catcher? … is it the physical Dream Catcher … or the maker of the physical Dream Catcher?

You Are the Dream Catcher

You are the Dream Catcher! You are the One you have been waiting for. You are the One you’ve been searching for.

Yes, I know, you’ve heard this before. You’ve read it countless times. You totally believe it. I understand.

Go Beyond Just Believing

It’s one thing to believe this. Yet, it’s another to experience it.

This is where making a physical Dream Catcher enters in.

This is where the “secret” of the true Dream Catcher comes to the rescue!

When you construct a traditional Native American Dream Catcher out of reed, yarn, leather and feathers, you’re actually only creating a physical representation of the metaphysical Dream Catcher—you!

Here’s the Magic

With the right conditions and attitude, the physical Dream Catcher becomes you-the-metaphysical Dream Catcher. The result is that all your dreams show up in your life … on earth … in this “Dimension of Manifestation.”

When you build a physical Dream Catcher with the viewpoint that you are revealing the actual Dream Catcher, you then experience becoming the powerful Catcher of Dreams that you truly are.

When you make a Dream Catcher with the perspective of uncovering the hidden power in the Universe, you discover the truth—you are the source of the power behind the holy object, behind the group leader, behind the trappings of tradition, behind the sacred belief. You are the Holy Grail!

Go for the Proof

It’s one thing to know this. It’s another to do it. It’s still another to create the personal direct evidence of the enormous creative power of being the Dream Catcher in a real and tangible, provable way.

What’s the proof of this approach? … the love, prosperity, health and peace you’ll attract immediately into your life!

When you realize (make real) that you are the true Dream Catcher, you can re-dream your financial life. Love life. Body. Age. Relationships. Livelihood. … anything you want! Your life immediately changes in front of your eyes.

 Don’t Take My Word for It

Make a Dream Catcher yourself. Make your self into a Dream Catcher! Catch Your Dreams Create your own unique Dream Catcher—a power object that will help you “catch” your dreams

It’s easy: Make a hoop (circle of life) out of a flexible tree branch or thick vine. Weave string into a web (of life) within the hoop.

For pointers, watch a spider spin its web. Go on a Vision Quest outside to find natural objects that represent the dreams you intent to attract with your personal power. Weave these symbols into your dream-catching web with love, intention and appreciation. Viola! Within minutes or days, your heartful wishes will come to you.

Dream, design and construct your Dream Catcher with the intention of “catching” what you really want in your life.

As you catch “Bright Energies”—love, health, happiness, peace, joy, wealth—you’ll weave these Energies into your personal Dream Catcher … and your everyday life.

Each person’s Dream Catcher will be unique to each person’s unique desires and intentions.

Native Magic

In Native American lore, the spirit medicine of the spider is to remind us that we are the source of our life adventures. The spider’s message is that we are the weavers of our own web of life experiences. We are the creator of our own reality—the authors of our own karma.

If we want to change the life experiences that we’re attracting, we need to change the web of thoughts, feelings and actions that we’re sending out into our world. By the Law of Attraction, the vibration at which we’re vibrating will attract people and events vibrating at that same vibrational frequency. This is the magic of you being the Dream Catcher.

Heaven Is a Here&Now Vibration The vibration of your Dream Catcher creates the reality of your dreams. The energy you’re in when you make the Dream Catcher attracts your dreams into manifestation.

Catch a Native American Catch a Native American (or a student of one) to show you how to create the physical and metaphysical Dream Catcher. … Or catch the knack from your own Higher Knowing!

Learn how to weave a web that brings all your heart’s desires—and catches your life purpose and passion.

Catch Up with Your Destiny!

Grab an opportunity. Release the patterns that attract people and situations you don’t prefer. Catch a Glimpse!

Catch a glimpse of how bountiful your life can be! Seize the day. Catch true love, a heartful livelihood, lasting health and wealth. Catch a Ride!

Catch a ride on your own Magical Mystery Tour! Discover the revitalizing force of “Bright Energies.”

Catch Your Youth!

Grab another chance. Seize the moment. Feel, look and be young and vital again.

Catch the Past!

You’ve lived here many times. Retrieve the value from those lifetimes … the wisdom, clarity, hints, tools, discoveries. awareness, learning, knowing. Mine the treasures of your past to update your awareness, learning and knowing in this lifetime.

Catch Your Future!

You’re the one who creates your dreams coming true. It’s your energy! The vibration that you generate from inside yourself. Your energy is a magnet. The high quality of energy you’re putting out attracts quality people, situations and a physical experience to match.

Catch the dreams that will make your heart and soul soar. Dream Catching is playful, practical and powerful! It works!

Weave a New Web of Joy Spiders build new webs at dawn to catch the dew that catches the early morning sunlight.

You build a Dream Catcher at the dawn of your new awareness to catch the Spirit that catches the “Bright Energies” of joy, compassion, peace, delight, innocence and passion.

As with the spider’s web, your Dream Catcher captures the Bright Energies of life and filters out the Dark Energies of doom and gloom.

As the first rays of sunlight hit the dew in the web, the “bad” dreams dissolve. As the first rays of Your True Spirit hit the Bright Energies of your Dream Catcher, the nightmares of life dissolve.

Make a Dream Catcher

This Manifestation Magnet will remind you how to continue to Catch Your Dreams! Use this ancient tool of transformation. Live your life to the fullest. Share your beauty, compassion and inner talents to transforms the world.

As the Song Goes…

Catch a falling star (light, a piece of heaven) Put it in your pocket (embody it, become it) Never ever let it fade away (don’t allow it to diminish) For love may come an’ tap you on the shoulder Some star-less night! Just in case you feel you wanna’ hold her (the joy) You’ll have a pocketful of starlight!

For our best and highest good all ways…

In every moment.

Ilumine Ao, Al Diaz

by Al Diaz
What I am doing right Now I wasn’t fully aware what was going on when it all started. As recently as 2005 I never would have dreamed of having 3 books published or leaving today for a book tour at the Hawaiian islands.

But it has to start somewhere…it has to start somehow.

So I ask you to live your dream…live your vision. Listen to your Heart and fulfill all that is for your best and highest good.

So as I embark on my “Transformation Book Tour” that I trust is phenomenally successful and for the best and highest good of all, let’s do it together so that you are living your destiny. I even welcome to share your experiences…

I Love you as you are…and we’ll be in touch soon.

For our best and highest good, all ways…
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz

“Transformation, Essays on Love, Healing and Water”

Discover what 15 visionary authors consider important to transforming your life and our world. The wisdom and practical applications presented in Transformation offer true hope for our planet, all forms of life, and the collective consciousness of human beings.

The publisher’s brief was that they each had one brief chapter to write about “Transformation”, clearly and simply, so that the reader would understand and be able to utilize the wisdom effortlessly in their everyday lives.

Al Diaz author of “BEing: The Titus Concept” is one of the 15 chosen authors. In his chapter “The Power That Circulates Within Us”, Al reminds us that we are unconditional love, that it is our divine birthright. He shares with us a powerful and simple technique to help us bring that Life Force of unconditional love to the surface.

Art Kunkin, founding publisher and editor of The Los Angeles Free Press, says “I had the pleasant realization after reading Transformation that each of the 15 authors had presented themselves as a potential friend. Their stories were so open, so heart-based, so full of wisdom, that I knew any of them would welcome my phone call or email…”

Buy “Transformation” now!
“Transformation Essays on Love, Healing and Water” is available for only $15.95 plus shipping from www.ilumine-ao.com/resources/transformation-book

“Transformation Essays on Love, Healing and Water” is a remarkable book written by 15 amazing authors with different insights that will truly transform you to the next level that you desire.

This weeks Guest Article
The following note is a response by a good friend of mine Santhan Naidoo in regards to what is going on with our world. Santhan is Heaven Admin for Heaven’s Letters and I had the pleasure of having him in my home for a couple of weeks and sharing insightful perspectives. From me to you Love is the answer…all ways.
Read this great article by Santhan Naidoo

For our best and highest good, all ways…
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz

The Waking Dream You Walk Through

by Santhan Naidoo

I’ve traveled approximately 23712km (14733 miles) within the last two months. From Buenos Aires to London to Bruge to Paris to Istanbul to Tel Aviv to Bucharest to Johannesburg to Los Angeles and so on. I lived in the homes of people from all around the world, listened to their stories, shared their pain and celebrated their laughter.

That there is change coming to our world, yes we all agree. The nature of life is change. In this world, there are the opposites which have been playing against each other from the beginning of creation. Each has their season. There is a season of more light and a season of less light. Through both seasons there is always light. Even when the world is completely cast in shadow there is light.

What we see happening in our world is a transition to a new season of light. In this season the tree of creativity and love blossoms, and their fruits form…
Read full article…

“The Transformation Book Tour”

3 Hawaiian Islands
Join Al Diaz and co-authors of “Transformation, Essays on Love, Healing and Water”

Kauai

Saturday Jan 30th to Sunday Jan 31st
6th Annual Inspiration Kaua’i Wellness Expo – “To Your Health”
Expo hours: Sat & Sun, January 30-31, 9am-5pm
www.inspirationjournal.com

“Unconditional Love with Clarity and Focus” workshop with Al Diaz
in the Expo theater: Saturday, January 30, 1-3 pm

Monday February 1st
Transformation ~ Messages and Inspiration
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Dolphin Touch Wellness Center, 4544 Kukui Street, Kapaa, HI 96746
www.DolphinTouch.org

Island of Hawaiʻi

Thursday February 4th
Transformation ~ Messages and Inspiration
Kona Stories  6:30pm – 9:00pm  808-324-0350
79-7460 Mamalahoa Hwy. #103 Kealakekua, HI 96750
In Mango Court by the “Island Naturals” Natural Food Store

Oahu

Friday February 5th to Sunday February 7th
Social / Networking Gathering with local experts in their field TBA.

What’s on Insightful Radio this week

“Transformation Book Tour”
Due to the “Transformation Book Tour” there will not be any Ilumine Ao radio shows on Monday Feb. 1st & 8th. But, do consider and listen to any of the prior shows.

Living Your Joy

by Al Diaz
Today I shared the following on my Facebook wall…

“By bringing forth the Joy from your Heart it will shift the energy of those around you which in turn will shift the energy with those around them. That is how powerful you are…what you emanate has an endless effect.”

The response I received was amazing… almost like the light bulb went on. I got the impression that they were realizing just how powerful they are to make a difference in our world.

Do you understand how powerful you are? Do you kNow you have the abiltity to make a difference in our world? Reflect back when you have been angry, sad, or hurt what did that do to those around you? To some degree those who stayed around you were brought down with you and for those who were repelled by the energy moved away. That is the power of your energy… so if you live and function from the Joy of your Heart what do you think is going to happen?

You will welcome, receive, accept, experience and bring more Joy into your Life, and those that are repelled from your energy will just melt away.

Everybody else has the same ability as you do… which means that as others match and express the Joy that you do it effects those around them and the ripple effect continues on and on…

This ripple effect can happen at any level and every part of our Life thus having the ability to shift or raise the collective consciousness.

Please read this again and understand what is BEing said…because you are an amazing gift to our world and can contribute so much.

You are the one we have been waiting for… we are the ones we have been waiting for. We have arrived.

For our best and highest good, all ways…
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz

“Transformation, Essays on Love, Healing and Water”

Discover what 15 visionary authors consider important to transforming your life and our world. The wisdom and practical applications presented in Transformation offer true hope for our planet, all forms of life, and the collective consciousness of human beings.

The publisher’s brief was that they each had one brief chapter to write about “Transformation”, clearly and simply, so that the reader would understand and be able to utilize the wisdom effortlessly in their everyday lives.

Al Diaz author of “BEing: The Titus Concept” is one of the 15 chosen authors. In his chapter “The Power That Circulates Within Us”, Al reminds us that we are unconditional love, that it is our divine birthright. He shares with us a powerful and simple technique to help us bring that Life Force of unconditional love to the surface.

Art Kunkin, founding publisher and editor of The Los Angeles Free Press, says “I had the pleasant realization after reading Transformation that each of the 15 authors had presented themselves as a potential friend. Their stories were so open, so heart-based, so full of wisdom, that I knew any of them would welcome my phone call or email…”

Buy “Transformation” now!
“Transformation Essays on Love, Healing and Water” is available for only $15.95 plus shipping from www.ilumine-ao.com/resources/transformation-book

“Transformation Essays on Love, Healing and Water” is a remarkable book written by 15 amazing authors with different insights that will truly transform you to the next level that you desire.

This weeks Guest Article is
Developing the Wisdom of the Heart
To live from the Heart and have ego serving you is the optimal way to BE.
Read this great article by Phil Lane Jr.

For our best and highest good, all ways…
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz

Developing the Wisdom of the Heart

by Phil Lane Jr.

A wise elder once told me, “Grandson, the longest road you will ever have to walk is the sacred journey from your head to your heart.” Another elder said, “We will never solve the many critical and life-threatening issues before us solely through the intellect; for every problem the intellect solves it creates ten more.” Unto itself the intellect is a sacred gift of the Creator, but, equally, without an open, visionary, and creative heart, there is no wisdom. Both the mind and heart are sacred. Both are inseparably connected.

To help us develop the wisdom of the heart, the wisdom of peace, we must turn to Mother Earth. “You know Grandson, the Great Spirit, Wakan Tanka, has given all people wisdom,” my grandfather told me. “To every living thing he has given something special. Some people receive their knowledge and understanding through books. In your life, Grandson, you too must read and study books, but remember to take with you on your journey only those things that bring more unity within yourself and others, that bring goodness and understanding and help us to serve one another in better ways.”

Read full article…

“The Transformation Book Tour”

3 Hawaiian Islands

Join Al Diaz and co-authors of “Transformation, Essays on Love, Healing and Water.”

Kauai

Saturday January 30th to Sunday January 31st
6th Annual Inspiration Kaua’i Wellness Expo – “To Your Health”
Expo hours: Sat & Sun, January 30-31, 2010 9am-5pm
www.inspirationjournal.com

“Unconditional Love with Clarity and Focus” workshop with Al Diaz
in the Expo theater: Saturday, January 30, 2010 1-3 pm

Monday February 1st
Transformation ~ Messages and Inspiration
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Dolphin Touch Wellness Center, 4544 Kukui Street, Kapaa, HI 96746
www.DolphinTouch.org

Island of Hawaiʻi

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Monday 1/18/2010 at 5pm PST

Al Diaz and co-hosts Kismet Salem and West Marrin share their insights on “Transformation”.
To find out more click these links:
Kismet Salem’s biography on Ilumine Ao Talkshow page
West Marrin’s biography on Ilumine Ao Talkshow page

From me to you Love is the answer…all ways.

For our best and highest good, all ways…
Ilumine Ao, Al Diaz

The Waking Dream You Walk Through

by Santhan Naidoo

Dear Mark,

I accept your invitation to rewrite this from another perspective.

I’ve traveled approximately 23712km (14733 miles) within the last two months. From Buenos Aires to London to Bruge to Paris to Istanbul to Tel Aviv to Bucharest to Johannesburg to Los Angeles and so on. I lived in the homes of people from all around the world, listened to their stories, shared their pain and celebrated their laughter.

That there is change coming to our world, yes we all agree. The nature of life is change. In this world, there are the opposites which have been playing against each other from the beginning of creation. Each has their season. There is a season of more light and a season of less light. Through both seasons there is always light.  Even when the world is completely cast in shadow there is light.

What we see happening in our world is a transition to a new season of light. In this season the tree of creativity and love blossoms, and their fruits form. As the clouds of ignorance, attachment, pride, anger and envy are dispersed, the ones who lived in their shadow scramble and struggle to accustom to the season of light. There are desperate actions to prevent the light from shining through. These desperate actions are very visible in our world today.

God has given the highest of His creation the power to rise above all conditions. That power when awoken in man, lifts man up to his divinity from where he casually watches the play of life. The divine man knows his true nature and knows his Creator and sees that everything is always in divine order. The monster called fear becomes his puppy.

As there are desperate and fearful actions, so too are there harmonious and loving actions at work in our world today. The ones who have cast aside their winter garments are kindling the flickering flames of faith that remained alight through the season now coming to a close. It is not a mindset of fear, hiding, protection, separation and preparation for disaster that guides these ones actions. Celebration, sharing, creativity, unity and community are the thoughts they hold as they guide the world through the transition into the season of more light.

Through my travels, I have seen clearly a common resonance amongst people of all cultures. There is a love vibration bringing us closer to The Creator and the source of all power. This love of God is breaking through all boundaries and uniting us across distance, languages, cultures, religions and ways of life. Its like we are moving closer to a common point of reference (the highest reference point that exists!) and forgetting our differences. In the light of The Creator one begins to see that the world is a game and existence is eternal.

Here’s what God says…

” You walk through the Halls of Heaven every day. I would say that you reach the top every day, and yet there is no top of Heaven to reach. Heaven is borderless. Even as you walk the common borders of everyday life, you are not obliged to the borders. You think you are, yet every day you cross the Seven Seas that make up the life you know. You are not a one-level Human Being. You travel in circles of the Universe. You might as well know that you travel with Me, and I with you. You are Earthed and Heavened at the same time. ”

The Waking Dream You Walk Through
Heavenletter #3266 Published on: November 3, 2009 http://www.heavenletters.org

Oceans of Love,

Santhan

For our best and highest good, all ways…

Ilumine Ao, Al Diaz

Developing the Wisdom of the Heart

by Phil Lane Jr.
A wise elder once told me, “Grandson, the longest road you will ever have to walk is the sacred journey from your head to your heart.” Another elder said, “We will never solve the many critical and life-threatening issues before us solely through the intellect; for every problem the intellect solves it creates ten more.” Unto itself the intellect is a sacred gift of the Creator, but, equally, without an open, visionary, and creative heart, there is no wisdom. Both the mind and heart are sacred. Both are inseparably connected.

To help us develop the wisdom of the heart, the wisdom of peace, we must turn to Mother Earth. “You know Grandson, the Great Spirit, Wakan Tanka, has given all people wisdom,” my grandfather told me. “To every living thing he has given something special. Some people receive their knowledge and understanding through books. In your life, Grandson, you too must read and study books, but remember to take with you on your journey only those things that bring more unity within yourself and others, that bring goodness and understanding and help us to serve one another in better ways.”

“Wakan Tanka,” he continued, “also gave our Native people, and all other people who live close to Mother Earth, wisdom and knowledge through dreams, visions, fasting, prayer, and the ability to see the lessons the Creator has put in every part of creation. Look at those trees standing over there; the alder does not tell the pine tree to move over; the pine does not tell the fir tree to move over; each tree stands in unity, their mouth pressed toward the same Mother Earth, refreshed by the same breeze, warmed by the same sun, with their arms raised in prayer and thanksgiving, protecting one another. If we are to have peace in the world, we too must learn to live like those trees.”

“Look, Grandson,” he said, “at the beautiful teachings the Creator has put in the little stream. Feel the water and see how gently and lovingly it touches your hands. It travels through deserts and mountains and many places, but it never turns its back on anyone or anything. Even though it gives life to all living things, it is very humble, for it always seeks the very lowest spot. But it has great faith, power, and patience, for even if a mountain stands in its path, it keeps moving and moving until finally that mountain is washed into the sea. These are the spiritual gifts the Creator has given each one of us. If we are to be happy within ourselves and with one another, we too must develop these sacred gifts.”

In all of our actions, we must seek to be living examples of the changes we wish to see in the world. By walking the path, we make the path visible. We must find the courage and dedication to use the wisdom of our elders on the path of a peaceful and equitable future. Using that wisdom, we will find we have the power to carefully and lovingly remove the barriers limiting our development as human beings and communities. The greater the difficulty in our path, the greater the opportunity for our growth and ultimate victory; we can always become more than we have ever been.

We know from our ancient teachings that the sacred eagle of humanity has two perfectly balanced and harmonious wings — one representing woman, and one representing man. In our relationships as women and men, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, we must join together to eliminate all forms of disrespect, mistreatment, or lack of sharing in the responsibility of raising the world’s children.

It is my deepest prayer that with every new sunrise, we can recognize more and more that the most sacred and holy of all the wonderful gifts the Creator has given us is the birth of a child. Everything we can do to provide our children and communities the best possible future is a sacred gift and responsibility.

For is not the moment long, long overdue, my beloved relatives, through the unfailing power and love of our good creator, for us to free ourselves completely from the hurt of both the past and present, so we may truly soar like majestic eagles to the promised greatness of our sacred destiny and future?

More Than Potential

by Al Diaz
You represent more than potential… you are a fact in the making. You have the innate ability to make a difference in our world but most importantly make a difference in your own Life.

That potential you have is unique to you that no one else can do or have. Others may seem to be able to do what you uniquely do and maybe even come close or similar… but there is something very special with how you do it.

That is your gift… the natural born gift you came here with. Utilizing that gift is how you will fulfill your destiny; it is the power of your BEing and one of the reasons you will look forward to another day.

Even when you are going through uncomfortable situations or experiences your gift will get you through them, but do you even know what your gift is? Most people don’t… for most people what Life presents to them they think that is how it is suppose to be. I will take it a step further that perhaps they think that others are just luckier or blessed and a better Life is not for them.

If you are happy and at peace where you are at in Life then I congratulate you!

But if you have an inner feeling that you desire or require better then it is up to you to have a “Transformation” in your Life. It is up to you to make that decision or choice for a better Life or a better world. It is up to you to raise your level of awareness so that you will change or shift for a better you. It is up to you to BE all that you were meant to BE. It is up to you to utilize your natural born gift…

When you make that choice and live that choice then you will have made the “Transformation” and exceeded your potential to truly feel the Love, Peace and Joy that you desire…

For our best and highest good, all ways…
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz

Book Launch
“Transformation, Essays on Love, Healing and Water”

Discover what 15 visionary authors consider important to transforming your life and our world. The wisdom and practical applications presented in Transformation offer true hope for our planet, all forms of life, and the collective consciousness of human beings.

The publisher’s brief was that they each had one brief chapter to write about “Transformation”, clearly and simply, so that the reader would understand and be able to utilize the wisdom effortlessly in their everyday lives.

Al Diaz author of “BEing: The Titus Concept” is one of the 15 chosen authors. In his chapter “The Power That Circulates Within Us”, Al reminds us that we are unconditional love, that it is our divine birthright. He shares with us a powerful and simple technique to help us bring that Life Force of unconditional love to the surface.

Art Kunkin, founding publisher and editor of The Los Angeles Free Press, says “I had the pleasant realization after reading Transformation that each of the 15 authors had presented themselves as a potential friend. Their stories were so open, so heart-based, so full of wisdom, that I knew any of them would welcome my phone call or email…”

Buy “Transformation” now!
“Transformation Essays on Love, Healing and Water” is now set for global release on Friday January 15th, 2010 and available for only $15.95 plus shipping from
www.ilumine-ao.com/resources/transformation-book

Purchase your book between Friday January 15th and Sunday January 17th and Al will send you an autographed book along with a personal and special gift from him.

“Transformation Essays on Love, Healing and Water” is a remarkable book written by 15 amazing authors with different insights that will truly transform you to the next level that you desire.

It’s All Up to You

by Diane Chambers
For most people, deciding what to do in life is a pretty tough decision, and one that requires more than a few moments’ thought. Maybe that’s why so many of us avoid thinking about it. Besides, when we simply react to life as it presents itself, we can make life itself responsible for what happens to us, rather than taking any responsibility ourselves. How many times have you heard the following statements?

“I’d be able to afford a nicer car if my boss would give me a raise.”
“The factory laid me off, so the bank foreclosed on my house.”
“She got the promotion because she’s always kissing up.”
“It’s not what you know, but who you know.”
“They hired a snot-nosed kid right out of college to be my boss.”

These seemingly good excuses often elicit a sympathetic response, but if you examine them closely you will find that they contain a common thread: everything is someone else’s fault.

Before you can identify the need and desire to make a change, it’s imperative that you get past the blaming stage. Blaming keeps you in the past.

No matter how much you believe in your excuses, you simply cannot deny that your success depends on the choices you make. You may have a tougher time than others because of barriers beyond your control (race, gender, age, and so on), but probably your toughest obstacle is the one you’ve created for yourself by failing to believe in your potential.

To overcome this obstacle, you’ve got to allow yourself the luxury of dreaming. If you’ve been struggling for some time, it might be tough to begin this process, but it’s free and can be a lot of fun.

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