We have just added a free workbook to the site so you can work on change-with-a-plan if you wish for 2010.

It’s a: Prosperity Journal Workbook, which we think is extremely important going into 2010 given the financial issues of 2009 for so many people.

The workbook is small, but it will serve as an outline to help you determine who you want to be and what you want in your life.

If you plan, odds are excellent that you will get where you want to go.

The methods used in this little guide have been used successfully by the founders of Wisdom to Change for many years . . . and by thousands of people around the world.

Change is going to happen even if you do not plan; you can help it change by intent to suit your wishes with the help of this workbook.

December 2009 ended with a rare blue moon, that was made even more rare by the fact that this blue moon coincided with a partial lunar eclipse and it was on the last day of the International Year of Astronomy.

The moon is not actually blue . . . Arvind Paranjpye, scientific officer of the public outreach programme, IUCAA, said “It is a very rare event and hence it derives its name from the phrase ‘once in a blue moon’. It is basically a calendar event and has no astronomical importance as such.

“It specifically appears once in 2.7 years,” said Mayuresh Prabhune, secretary of Khagol Vishwa, an amateur astronomer’s club.

But this blue moon is special because it is accompanied by an eclipse, an event that has not occurred in the last five to six decades. A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the moon passes through some portion of the earth’s shadow. This can occur only when the sun, earth and moon are aligned exactly or very closely aligned with earth in the middle. Lunar eclipse occurs only on a full moon day. “The full moon has to happen on the first or the second day of the month and the month must be of 31 days for such an event to occur. It has perfectly matched this month and hence the rarity,” Prabhune added.

Most calendar months see just one full moon. The 29.5 day cadence of the lunar cycle matches up almost perfectly with the 28 to 31 day length of calendar months. Sometimes, however, the one-to-one correspondence breaks resulting in two full moon days in one month. December was one such month. The first full moon of last month appeared on December 2.

The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.

Amen.

So many of us select a part of us to change and ignore the rest of our “self.” It doesn’t work that way. You are a whole package. Picking one side of your self to work on without addressing every side of you just isn’t effective. Your foundation will crumble somewhere. Sure, select one of your corners at a time, strengthen that, and move to another until things are as strong as they can be. But, again, improving your diet, for example, and ignoring exercise or living in unclean surroundings, or continuing to date that verbally or physically abusive other will still leave you weak and wanting. Who needs that!

This comes about today because of recent observations with friends who have health issues most of their lives and who live in very dirty surroundings . . . filled with grease, grime, dirt, pet dander, spilled food in cupboards (left for months or years at a time), etc. They have respiratory problems in the main. While I agree that challenging your system through exposure to germs is probably necessary to develop immunities, and that a too-clean environment is counter-productive to developing such immunities, I am also positive that ongoing exposure to dirty living quarters is dangerous to your health and often presents itself in the form of asthma, psychological stress, and any number of issues. It also, as noted in many articles, is a place that becomes embarrassing for family and friends to visit.

One of the important first steps to to get rid of clutter. Years ago I read an book indicating that if you have not used an item within 365 days (which accounts for holidays), you do not need it. I took that to heart, cleaned out all unused items and have maintained that for years. Cleaning my house is easy as a result. Many books (and services, if you have the budget for outside help) exist to help you, including:
Organize Now!: A Week By Week Guide To Simplify Your Space And Your Life

If you really hate housecleaning, and many people do (and that is just fine), and if you can’t afford a cleaner, do yourself a favor by owning only what you really need, have time for, and which has it’s own place (you remember the old adage: A place for everything and everything in its’ place.). That will make your cleaning infinitely easier.

I’m sure your local hardware store can give ideas to make cleaning easier. If you’d prefer to shop from home, Amazon.com has a wide range of Cleaning Supplies. Perhaps there will be a new idea or something that makes it easier for you. And the exercise is good for you. When asked how she stayed so beautiful, one of the French movie actresses (which I believe was Simone Signoret) said that she does her own housework and gardening.

And music helps. I’ve painted whole houses to The Police albumns.
Music to Clean House By . . .

Your friends and family do love you, but there is only so much they can do. It is painful for them to see you let go and pretend to not care about yourself.

In addition to receiving certification for NLP and EFT, and developing methods of working with new discoveries with DNA, we are focusing on certification for specific types of exercise to help balance one’s system.

This started when I met a fitness trainer who mentioned one of her clients who had fractured a leg bone a couple of years ago. The woman started therapy and continued with her therapy at a local gym. The result was all of her strength back in her leg and a very fit body. But the trauma of the fall remains in her mind and she actually has trouble just walking down the street near the curb because she is again afraid of falling. Simple mind control can pull that woman away from that fear. Physical trauma, such as trauma from an auto accident, does live in your body until you acknowledge it and let it go.

Fears in normal circumstances are unreasonable . . . such as a fear of falling, fear of water, fear of heights, fear of snakes . . . unless it’s a boa constrictor climbing up the tree you’re in. (And, actually, boas cannot easily kill people, cattle, etc., although I can assure you that I would not wait around to prove that theory.)

The point is that your fears will cripple you, your life will lose luster, and you can control/change them forever.

During a recent trip, the power of being on a small piece of land in the middle of an ocean became quickly apparent.

I was on the Big Island of Hawaii on top of Mauna Loa, overlooking the caldera of Kilauea . . . perhaps the earth’s most active volcano with the earth’s core just inches below my feet and heaven overhead. My reading during this trip included Asara Lovejoy’s “The One Command” which instructs to stand and imagine flowing into and anchoring to the earth’s core and from there soaring to the heavens so that you are simultaneously grounded and soaring.

Before leaving on a research trip to Hawaii, I practiced the exercises at home in California with significant emotion. However, there are only few places on this planet where earth’s core–earth’s fire–is mere inches below one’s feet. An active volcano is one of those places. And there are only few places on this planet where the heavens overhead are in such close proximity to magma. Wedged between fire and heaven in such a dramatic setting can only be life changing.

During time in Hawaii, I was also reading James Michener’s “Hawaii” to remind me of the beginnings of these magic islands. Michener points out that Hawaiians–without Christian influence–were thoughtful and graceful people with their own powerful beliefs. The spirit of Hawaii is in a little book I found while in Hawaii.

A Little Book of Aloha: The Spirit of Healing by Renata Provenzano

It is a small book with wisdom that carries through the ages written in both Hawaiian and English.

Ola mai iloko mai: Health comes from within.
Ho’Okahi no la’au lapa’au, o ka mihi: The first remedy is forgiveness

My focus in this process will focus on changing your DNA and regaining your health (assuming you had health in the first place and, like me, took it for granted and let it slide.

After hearing Dr. Wayne Dyer say a few months ago that you can, in fact, change your DNA, I have been searching for everything available on that subject. For years, I have thought, “If only I could update my hardware/software.” Well, I can. You can. DNA is constantly in flux, just like tides. It IS ever changing, depending on individual input, and we can control our input.

The New York Times, Science, The Daily Telegraph and even various business blogs and articles have carried reports detailing breakthroughs in understanding how life first came to be and addressing intelligent change.

Stephen C. Meyer is Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute. Seattle. In Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, Dr. Meyer shows how each successive attempt to solve the mystery of the origin of life has exposed the Achilles heel of evolutionary science: its inability to account for information apart from mind.

“DNA functions like a software program,” says Dr. Meyer. “Software comes from programmers. Information generally — whether inscribed in hieroglyphics, written in a book or encoded in a radio signal — always arises from an intelligent source.”

Using the same scientific method that Darwin himself pioneered, Meyer shows that modern discoveries about DNA have revived the design hypothesis, thereby providing modern scientific support for religious belief.

A leading proponent of intelligent design, a geophysicist and a Cambridge-trained philosopher of science, Dr. Meyer presents a compelling case that will generate heated debate, command attention, and find new adherents among scientists and open-minded readers around the world.

For those having difficulty with a transition to the idea of complete self-control . . . meaning your life is just that — YOUR life — consider this version of the theme: From the back cover of Fazale Rana’s The Cell’s Design: How Chemistry Reveals the Creator’s Artistry.
Today’s biochemists have uncovered startling molecular features inside the cell that can compel only one reasonable conclusion–a supernatural agent must be responsible for life. “The Cell’s Design” explores the scientific and theological impact of these discoveries. Instead of focusing on the inability of natural processes to generate life’s chemical systems (as nearly all apologetics works do), Fazale Rana makes a positive case for life’s supernatural origin by highlighting the many biochemical features that reflect the Creator’s signature. His book extends the case for design beyond irreducible complexity. These never-before-discussed evidences will evoke awe and amazement at God’s creative majesty in the remarkable elegance of the cell’s chemistry.

“In Darwin’s day, a living cell was thought to be quite simply–for all practical purposes–little more than a microscopic blob of gelatin. Rana lays out what contemporary science has learned about the cell’s design, and he poignantly and provocatively shows that it is the handiwork of not only an Intelligent Designer but specifically the God revealed in Scripture.”

–Hank Hanegraaff, president, Christian Research Institute

Fazale Rana’s welcome sequel to Origins of Life makes a significant contribution to the growing scientific literature pointing to intelligent design.”

–Kenneth Boa, president, Reflections Ministries

Fazale Rana is vice president of research and apologetics at Reasons To Believe. He is the coauthor, with Hugh Ross, of “Origins of Life and Who Was Adam?”

Change your home, transform your life.

We all know that when we walk into a lovely home, we enjoy the look and feel of it. Well, feng shui not only applies to the appearance of the home and placement of furniture, but, where it is placed, in what position, the color of each piece of furniture, and just as importantly, feng shui is about the space around furniture, in which direction, and in each room it is placed.

The energy that the empty spaces around the furniture create and the specific rooms the placement is made are important as well.
The Feng Shui House Book: Change Your Home, Transform Your Life by Gina Lazenby

The Promise of Energy Psychology: Revolutionary Tools for Dramatic Personal Change by Feinstein, Eden, CraigThe approach presented in this book shows how to work with your body’s energies to shift your neurology and actually alter the patterns in your brain that maintain unwanted habits, emotional responses, and self-limiting ways of thinking.

This book was written by three of the legends in the energy psychology fields: Energy Medicine gurus Donna Eden and David Feinstein and the founder of the world’s most widely used energy psychology techinque, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Gary Craig.

Energy Psychology is an emerging paradigm based on using physical interventions to change our thoughts patterns and feelings usually in much less time then conventional talk therapies. This book is the most authoritive and user-friendly way to teach yourself about this remarkeable new development.

The unique approach presented in this book shows how you can work with your body’s energies to shift your neurology and actually alter the patterns in your brain that maintain unwanted habits, maladaptive emotional responses, and self-limiting ways of thinking.

Although feng shui is an elaborate art, it is not difficult to grasp when its rules and principles are systematically presented. The aim of this book is to set forth these principles and rules in a practical, step-by-step manner so you will be able to use feng shui effectively and confidently to arrange your home and your life.

You may have read or heard that there are three different schools of feng shui: the form school, the compass school, and the intuitive school. However, this book postulates that there is only one authentic school of feng shui, which derives from the ancient Taoist tradition. It embraces a full range of techniques that include Chinese astrologly, compass methods, from methods, and divining techinques.

Feng Shui Step by Step : Arranging Your Home for Health and Happiness–with Personalized Astrological Charts by R. Raphael Simons