A 2,800 Years Old Super-Centenarian Living in our Midst.

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A mind-blowing true story of a 2,800 years old super-centenarian living in our midst.
Conversation with a security consultant Ben Abba about his forthcoming book Secrets of an Immortal.

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Meeting some of the oldest living people on the planet.
Among them – a 2,800 years old man who looks like he is in his sixties.

CAN THIS BE TRUE????
REASEARCH AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE SAY YES.

-Is it possible to defy death?
-The oldest people on Earth view death differently
-Living while the ones you love die...the way the oldest people on Earth handle loss
-The Knight’s Templar experience as told by a former Knight Templar
-changing identities, changing names
-an eyewitness account of the events described in the Bible
-working on changing time with Leonardo da Vinci
-the daily habits of a 2,800 year old man
-the secrets still untold

Intrigued??? Listen to the show and stay tuned for more to come!
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A mechanism inside my brain???

"- We are not here to save anyone. We are here to love. To heal ourselves and to hold the light for others. And then the light will point the way."
- Auriela McCarthy


A mechanism inside my brain???

Hello dear friends,

Another week has passed. Every week we have new people joining the School. The other day I ran into a friend who thought that since she hadn't started at the beginning it was now too late. Good thing she told me that, so I had a chance to reassure her.
Remember, you are always welcome. There are no prerequisites for coming to a class. You come when the timing is right for you. Just trust your intuition and you are draw to come, then by all means, come, don't talk yourself out of.

It's Thursday and I am still basking in the afterglow of our last Tuesday night. What an evening we had!
We looked at the Self-Esteem, what it actually is and why it is often so illusive, and boy-oh-boy, how much there was to look at.


EVENT INFO

The School of Hope and Inspiration
Tuesday, June 30
Gathering: 6:30PM -7PM
Class: 7PM - 9:30PM

We will meet at the same location in Southern Marin.
RSVP for address and directions.
Auriela@AurielaMcCarthy.com

I appreciate if everyone RSVPs, so I know how many seats we need.
Please, be on time, we will start promptly at 7pm


Here is this week's food for thought:

Imagine that somewhere inside your brain a mad scientist has planted a very unusual measuring device. This device works non-stop, does not require a battery and as along as you are alive it is going to continue taking measurements.
You can neither fool it, nor disable it. It dies when you die and not a moment sooner.

And what does it measure?
It measures and rates your performance as a human being in this world.
Not your success with your career, not your achievements, not how much money gave to charity, but - what kind of person you are.

Among the things it measures every second of your life are the following:

Are you being honest? Are you willing to be responsible?
How well do you think? How deeply do you feel?
Do your feelings run your life or can you hold them in proper perspective? Are you being trustworthy?
Kind and compassionate? Or are you hurtful to other people?
Do you keep your word? What principles do you hold and how often do you live by them?
Are you able to ask for help and to receive it when offered?...

You get the picture.

If you can imagine an internal device that's set to measure all this and more about you, then you are getting a glimpse into the inner workings of your Self-Esteem.

Regardless of whether you are aware of it or not, every second of your waking time you are rating yourself as a human being along the lines I have just described.

You may tell a lie and get away with it. But not as far as your Self Esteem is concerned. Because YOU know you have been dishonest and that gets you low marks from yourself.
You may have just hurt your partner and gotten away with this, - but not as far as your Self-Esteem goes. Because as soon as you made that nasty comment - your Self-Esteem plummeted.
You might have avoided taking responsibility and let someone else do what you should have done, but the moment you turned your head away from it your "goodness" measurements dropped.

Others may never find out that you have been dishonest. They may let you get away with how you act... But not you.

You won't let yourself get away with anything when it comes to how you rate yourself as a human being.

And if accepting your weaknesses and forgiving yourself is hard for you, and if you continue to act in ways that gets you "low marks" from yourself - sooner or later, as your Self-Esteem drops lower and lower, you will start feeling as if you are "unfit to live" and will begin looking for sources of Self-Esteem in all the wrong places.

For example: You will try getting it by making more and more money, by driving a better and more expensive car, by owning beautiful homes, by receiving Awards and Medals for your achievements, by becoming more and more successful...and discover that none of it gives you your Self Esteem.

All the things I just mentioned are important, admirable and valuable, but only as feedback about how good you are at what you are doing - NOT as a source of you Esteem.
They have to do with your skills and talents and with your determination to succeed.

But they have nothing to do with what kind of person you are.
Which is what your Self-Esteem - the love you "earn" from you - is all about.

If you are reading this and thinking, hey, as long as I have my success, why should I even bother? Why can't I just enjoy the success and forget about all the rest? Who even cares about my Self-Esteem?

You do.

Because Self-Esteem is a need, not a preference. Not something that would just be "nice to have."
You need your Self Esteem. As do I. As does every human being alive.
Need it as much as you need food, water and oxygen.

And it is not something you can negotiate.

Without food and water and oxygen the physical body will die.
Without Self-Esteem you may keep your body for a number of years, but you will be walking though life absent and dead.
Nothing will be enough. Nothing will satisfy and bring lasting pleasure.
Something will be always missing, and you will be unable to feel good about yourself regardless of the facade you show to the world..

When you seek Self-Esteem in the places it can't be found your life becomes riddled with anxiety, guilt, fear, doubt...all these so-called "bagaboo emotions" that suck away your joy and end up ruining your life.

You know people like that. You are probably thinking of someone right now who fits the description. It breaks your heart to see them this way.

I am not exaggerating and yes, it is scary.

The good news is that Self - Esteem (if it is weak) can be strengthened and rebuilt.
You have to want to do it, of course.
And as always the first step is telling yourself the truth, recognizing where it is lacking in you and consciously going about it building it back.

Every week I send you food for thought.

If you want to improve your Self-Esteem, why not start with working on your thinking?

"But everyone can think..."

Are you sure?

Everyone can run or dance or slide down the hill in a toboggan. But only a few become Olympic Champions or world famous ballet dancers...Those who do - practice, don't they?
They practice until it becomes their skill and then their art.

Being able to think is no different.
Being able to think well is an ability that can be developed by practicing it.
Think. And evaluate your thoughts. See if what you are thinking is based on fact or on your projection.

Let's take an old joke as an example: "Just because I am paranoid doesn't mean they are not after me."
Correct. So think. Are they?
Am I really in danger here or am I making it up out of my out of control fear?
Do I need to take action to protect myself or do I need to let go and lighten up?

If you start doing this, you will also built a stronger base for Self-Trust and you will also become more Trustworthy.
See how connected it all is?

I give you food for thought in every letter.

You can take any idea or concept I write about and massage it, try it on, linger with it - THINK on it!
Think about what you just read about Self-Esteem.
Does it make sense? How does it apply to you? To other people you know?

Being able to think is part of having strong Self-Esteem.

Look at the questions in the beginning of this letter that help you build your Self-Esteem and answer them the best you can.

This alone will move you forward beautifully.

I will give you more tips on how to work with it in the next letter.

And keep sending me your thoughts. I love hearing back from you and I always respond.

All for now.
See some of you on Tuesday.

Much love to you, always,
Auriela.

What Does It Mean to Have Self-Confidence?

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The show describes the characteristics of a self-confident person taking a deeper look at each and giving powerful examples.

The qualities below describe the person with self-confidence. These qualities when well- developed ill have a profound impact on your life.

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The Power of the Possible
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The show ends with a powerful meditation to develop and to increase these qualities.

1.Courage:

-refusing to live the life that other people expect you to live
-following your own voice, going for your own dreams
-going forward even if you don’t have all the answers
-going forward even if some of the answers you have are wrong
-refusing to ignore and dismiss your talents and gifts, living your life in
a way that your gifts are expressed

2.Hope

Self Confident people are optimistic, positive and filled with hope:
-they do not treat hope as the last resort, but as a powerful tool of manifestation
-they have a well-developed ability to expect good results and positive outcomes
-they acts in anticipation of the outcomes they expect

3.Trust

Self-Confident people have a well-developed sense trust:
-they trusts themselves and those worthy of their trust
-they do not ask you to trust them, but they are trustworthy
-they do not rely on trust without a solid basis for it nor do they expect others to do so

4.Humility.

Self-Confident people look at each situation with fresh eyes.
Each experience is treated like a brand new one, without the overtone of an expectation based on the past.
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Courage and Trust

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Hello, dear friends,

Again I start by thanking you so much for your support! As more and more of you are responding to my emails, I am getting more and more inspired and excited about this work.

Once again - I am humbled by what happens every Tuesday night.
It almost makes no sense for me to announce the topic of the evening
in advance. Last time I had a definite plan to work with Self-Esteem - such an essential piece of our foundation, and instead Courage and Trust called on us demanding we go into greater depths with each.
And we did.

Courage...Trust...We use these words so often.
But have you actually paused and thought how each of these powerful concepts applies to you directly?
How do they affect the way you live your life?
The way you act? The way you respond to situations and to people?
Make decisions (or don't?)

EVENT INFO

The School of Hope and Inspiration
Tuesday, June 23
Gathering: 6:30PM -7PM
Class: 7PM - 9:30PM

We will meet at the same location in Southern Marin.

RSVP for address and directions.
(415) 407-8255
or
email Auriela@AurielaMcCarthy.com
I appreciate if everyone RSVPs, so I know how many seats we need.
Please, be on time, we will start promptly at 7pm

Here is this week's food for thought:

I came upon a shocking piece of data recently.
Over 91% of people spend the majority of time every day doing 2 things:
Being frustrated by their co-workers and thinking about quitting their jobs.

Imagine that?

That means they are unhappy almost the entire time they are awake.
I won't even go into what a waste of time and energy it is.

But think.
What does it mean "being frustrated" by other people?
It means blaming, complaining, "venting" (such a charming word.)
It means getting a cheap hit of power and a temporary and false release from the anger and the disappointment with yourself. Because focusing on others is a distraction from what's actually going on inside you.

And why are you angry and disappointed with yourself?
Because - you are hating your current situation - your job, or something else equally important -and doing nothing about it.
And you know it better than anyone. That's what you really hate, not your co-workers, nor the job itself.

Because you want to be inspired.
You want to inspire yourself by doing something exciting, courageous, powerful.
Inspiration is that breath of fresh air that makes us straighten our shoulders, see what's Possible, feel happy to be alive.

Acting courageously is inspiring. Stretching yourself is inspiring.
It is inspiring to others and - more importantly - to you.
This doesn't mean sabotage yourself and leave your job this moment without any plan or any idea of how you'll make your ends meet.
Nor does it mean waiting forever to quit either.
It means making the right choice and starting to move in that direction.

Remember: having Courage doesn't mean having all the answers before you act.
It means going forward in the direction of your dream even if you don't.
It means refusing to give up and to conform. It means refusing to settle.

And for this you need Trust.

Courage and Trust and so connected. I am speaking of your ability to trust yourself.

Can you?

Because if you can't yet, it is much better to tell yourself the truth so that you don't set yourself up for failure.
For example: If every time you meet someone new you tell yourself that he (or she) is "the one," this is definitely not the area where you can trust yourself.

On the other hand, if you are with a person and everything looks perfect on the outside, everyone keeps telling you how lucky you are and what a great "catch" he or she is...while every fiber of your being knows - you don't belong with each other and that you have no soul connection - maybe indeed this IS the area where you CAN trust yourself.

But will you have the courage to act on your knowing?

One thing to always remember regardless of where your self-discovery takes you is Being kind.

Be kind to yourself. Accept your humanness, give yourself plenty of room to heal, to grow, to change.
Don't expect immediate, dramatic changes.
Small steps, Loving and kind steps in the right direction will take you there faster than a huge leap across the abyss ever will.
You may not make it, you may crash and hurt yourself and decide to never again....
Don't do that. If you are tempted to - it's your ego talking. Tell it "thanks but no, thanks."

But keep on moving!

And that's what we looked at and worked with during our last evening, and in a very fascinating way it set the stage for working with Self-Esteem next time.
You will see how it is all connected when I write about it.

All for now.

See some of you on Tuesday! (And yes, the group is growing so beautifully!!! )
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Conversations with Lisa Nichols, "9 Steps to Living the Life You Love"

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Conversation with Lisa Nichols, author of No Matter What. 9 steps to living the life you love.

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-Making a choice to go after your dream “no matter what”
-Flexing your “bounce back” muscle
-Navigating life’s bumps
-Lisa’s exercise to let go of what’s holding you back
-Powerful NLP technique to change the beliefs that do not serve you
-Lisa’s journey towards forgiveness

-Important information for parents of teenagers: transformational workshops for teens
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The Importance of a Good Foundation - Self Confidence

Hello, dear friends,

Another week has passed.
The School is growing beautifully and steadily. I am so happy and fulfilled after each Tuesday night, I feel like flying.

EVENT INFO

The School of Hope and Inspiration

Tuesday, June 9th

Gathering: 6:30PM -7PM

Class: 7PM - 9:30PM

We will meet at the same location in Southern Marin.

email Auriela@AurielaMcCarthy.com for more information or with your RSVP. I appreciate if everyone RSVPs, so I know how many seats we need.
Please, be on time, we will start promptly at 7pm

Here is this week's food for thought:

Every builder knows the importance of a good foundation.

It has to be strong, level and stable for the building to stand straight and be safe for people.
If the foundation isn't level - the building will be crooked. If it isn't stable the building may fall down.
If the foundation is weak and breaks - the building breaks with it.

In that respect, we, human being, are not that different.
We too need a good foundation in order to function well in our lives.

And what is our foundation made of? Many things, clearly.

Among them, very importantly, is - KNOWING that you have value and worth,
Really knowing this, in your gut.
Also: feeling good about yourself, having confidence, knowing you are going to be OK, no matter what...

If these qualities are well-developed, your foundation is strong.
If they are not - you have a shaky foundation and are probably having a hard time dealing with a lot of things in life.
You also, most certainly don't like yourself.

An inspiration came to me last week to now and then teach an evening on one of the elements that make our foundation.

Last Tuesday we began with Self-Confidence.

How important is Self-Confidence?
About as important as being able to walk straight, breathe fresh air and know that you do have a future...

Yes, that important.

To put it simply, Self-Confidence is knowing that you can cope.
No mater what happens to you. Knowing you can survive no matter what.
Having this gut-level knowing. And living from this place.

Not many people have self-confidence.
Do you?

If you think about a self-confident person, who comes to mind? Anyone?

It will be a person who is not in their ego, not self-centered or conceited,
nor acting as if the world revolves around them... ( all of which are anything but..)

Think about a woman or a man you believe is a self-confident person.

What makes them so?

If you are not sure, here are the 4 qualities each of them would have to various degrees:

1.Courage.

They have the guts to live the life THEY want to live. (Not the life other people expect them to.)
And they move forward on their dreams, act in spite of their fear.
They may not have all the answers, nor have "all the ducks in a row ..."
More often than not their "right" answers turn out to be the wrong ones...

But it doesn't stops them.

2.Trust.

Self-confident people trust themselves. And trust those that are trustworthy.
They follow their intuition. Making a mistake does not terrify them...
They know the Universe is a friendly place.

How do they know it? They just do.

3. Hope.

Thanks to Barak Obama the very notion of hope is back in our consciousness.
Finally, it is no longer -the last resort, no longer something to do when everything else fails.

Hope is such an immensely powerful tool to create our lives with. And it is intricately connected to the Future.
People who can't hope and have no sense of their Future, don't change and don't heal.

Just think about it.

If you are a self-confident person, you are going to hope for and expect good outcomes. It will be automatic, like breathing.
You will expect the good, you will hope for it, and you will usually attract it. How else can it be?

Is it arrogant? Not at all. It is actually the opposite.

Because the fifth quality you will have as a self -confident person, is humility.

4. Humility.

Staying in the present and responding to each situation as if nothing like that ever happened before.
Not coming at it with the built-in expectations based on "how it always works."
For example, just because your friend is always late, he may be on time tonight.
Or - just because your neighbor never helped you with anything when you asked her, she may do it now.

Because in your confidence, you know you can cope with whatever happens, awful or wonderful.

Last Tuesday night we massaged each of these ideas and concept. Tried them on, found examples.

Sometimes discovering how little confidence you have is very painful.

But wouldn't you rather know it, so you can do something about it?
Telling yourself the truth may bring sadness...
So what?
Now, you have something to work with. Something to heal in yourself, something new to develop.
And that's exciting! And powerful. And - it can be done!

Equally important, if not more so, is discovering how much self-confidence you already do have!
I cannot stress enough how life-changing ( no overstatement) it will be if you were to sit for a bit with each of the qualities and notice not just the ones that are missing or weak, but the ones that work!

Print out this email. Look at the list.
Discover your strengths and own them. Celebrate them - and they will blossom more.
Then take a look at your weaker sides and begin to build them up.

And then one day, when a situation calls for action, you will find that you don't react the way you used to in the past.
You are now responding from a place of confidence. Handling things, doing what needs doing, being in your power...

So much will change in your life once you develop self-confidence. And if it is already beautifully there - becoming aware of it makes it stronger,

In our next class: Self-esteem.

Unfortunately, this is one of the most misused words in our culture. (And if you come to the class, you may discover it may not be what you expect.)

You can do a full day workshop just on Self- Esteem and still not cover everything.
I will do my best in the format of one evening:).

If you live in the Bay Area and have been planning to come - this one is definitely not to be missed.
I will say that much: Understanding what Self-Esteem is (and is not) and working with it was one
of the most important steps in my spiritual journey. Life-changing information and tools.

All for now.
Look forward to seeing some of you on Tuesday,

Love, Auriela.

More on the "Unspeakable"

"- We are not here to save anyone. We are here to love. To heal ourselves and to hold the light for others. And then the light will point the way."
- Auriela McCarthy
A School of Hope and Inspiration
More on the "unspeakable"

Dear friends,
The School of Hope and Inspiration is really taking off!!!
I am sorry I haven't yet been able to offer it online or on the telephone.
Thanks to everyone who wrote asking me to do this. It is coming.
For now, if you live in the Bay Area of San Francisco, I am planning to have our first one-day workshop sometime in June.
Watch out for the announcement.

The last email letter with my thoughts about rage brought more responses than any other one I had sent.
I am not too surprised. Speaking about "the unspeakable" of rage was like swinging open the door to the house of shadows and dark secrets.
Once it is opened, it won't stay shut. I say: hallelujah! About time.

EVENT INFO

The School of Hope and Inspiration
Tuesday, June 9th
Gathering: 6:30PM -7PM
Class: 7PM - 9:30PM

We will meet at the same location in Southern Marin.
Please email for address and directions.
Auriela@AurielaMcCarthy.com

I appreciate if everyone RSVPs, so I know how many seats we need.
Please, be on time, we will start promptly at 7pm

Here is this week's food for thought:

To give you a sense of how powerful this work is I will share with you something one woman wrote to me after attending the evening.
(With her permission of course.)

"...A day or so after our Rage session and the meditation retrieving some of the power that we have given away over the years, I got really sick. I thought that it must be the flu, but then it lasted less than 24 hours - diarrhea, vomiting, fever. It left as quickly as it came on and I am left with an intuition that it was not a virus, but rather my body letting go of a lot of old stuff - churned up by the work on Tuesday...
I lost 3 pounds of old stuff!...Powerful work!"

Will you be surprised to hear that when this woman came to the next class she looked different?

And no, it was not that she was 3 pounds thinner. This - I couldn't see.
And yet the difference was unmistakable. It was in her eyes. They had more light, more sparkle. Her posture seemed different too, as did her energy. If I had to put into words the intangible of an internal change - which is a challenge in itself - I would say she had more space for joy, more peace and also - more wonder and more excitement about life.

Am I being poetic? I am not. Other people saw that too. You could not miss it. Were the 24 hours of physical discomfort worth this change? You decide.
Does this happen every time? Absolutely not.
Does it have to happen for the change to be real? Again, no. But it can.
The physical body is usually the last one to catch up. And when it does,
the symptoms are not unlike those of detoxification.

When you have a physical malady that requires surgery - like an appendix that has to be removed so that it doesn't burst and kill you, you expect to be weak and in pain for a while after the surgery.
You also expect the scar to remain tender to the touch and to hurt for some time.

But this doesn't stop you. You go ahead and have the surgery anyway.
Because you want to live. Because you don't want to be poisoned by the stuff that will spill out of your appendix if it were to burst.

Is an inflamed appendix (or a stomach ulcer, or a tumor...) any different from rage (or shame, or envy, or guilt...) that - as long as it remains
unaddressed - is putrefying and rotting inside your body?

Is there any connection between an organ that is sick and a constricting emotion that's stuffed into it?
Of course there is. A direct connection.

Even our medical doctors - more and more of them - are joining
the Metaphysicians who have been saying this all along.

Can unaddressed emotions kill you just as easily as a burst appendix or any other terminal illness?
You bet.
Can they be healed? Leading to increased physical health, turning back the clock on aging? Absolutely.

In my past, I had several incidents of being taken to the emergency room with internal bleeding. A few of those times - "in the last minute." Why was I bleeding high up in my stomach, right where it meets the heart? What was it my heart knew and "could not stomach"..?

These questions were right in my face.

I had to make a choice: to continue to avoid the real pain that led to the bleeding, or - to look it straight in the eye and to begin to heal it.

The body doesn't lie. We can lie to ourselves, but only for so long.

I am healthier now than when I was 19 years old. Yes, you read this correctly. (And my son is older than 19 now.)

Let me ask you this:

Does your physical health matter to you?
Would you like to have vitality and aliveness regardless of your age?

Do you want to have more energy so you can create what you've been dreaming about?

Do you want to be able to act on what you know about The Law of Attraction:
think happy, positive thoughts and feel happy positive feelings,
so you can attract more of it into your life?

Do you want to be able to do it for real, and not for 5 minutes, and then plunge back into anxiety, or fear, or worry or doubt, or - rage?

It starts with an awareness: I have pain I have not been willing (or ready) to touch.
And it is followed by choice: I am making myself matter: I will heal my pain. I will celebrate my life.

Followed by acting upon that choice.

Many paths can take you there. Take the one that calls you.
The School of Hope and Inspiration is one of them.
Is it the one for you? If it is, you will know. Our door is wide open.

All for now.
Send your thoughts, questions and comments, you know I always respond, and usually - in depth.

See some of you on Tuesday,
As always, I am sending you love,

Auriela