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"- 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
Hello, dear friends,
Another week has gone by...
In 8 days we will be celebrating Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday!
Isn't it wonderful that in this country, we have a national holiday designated to feeling grateful.
What a fabulous tradition!
And once again I am overwhelmed with gratitude for you, my readers and listeners... and I am deeply humbled. With all the available sources of information that are competing for your time and attention, you choose to read my Food for Thought emails and to listen to my radio shows, and so many of you do it regularly...when I let it in, I am close to tears.
You might have noticed that I haven't put up any new radio shows for a couple of weeks now. Here is why.
Webtalkradio.net has invested a lot of money into completely redoing their website. The new one will be fabulous and will be up and running very shortly.
So here is something you might be interested in.
If you have a business that can use consistent national and international exposure to targeted audience, I am now able to offer you something amazing.
Around 30,000 plus people are downloading my show every week, consistently, for a very long time. Think about it. 30,000 people or more. (!)
These are not random listeners, who are in their car when the show is on. These are the people who consciously take time every week to listen and to re-listen to the show.
That means they WILL hear about your business if we tell them about it.
Internet radio advertising is ridiculously inexpensive in comparison to broadcast radio. If you want to advertise on my show, I can do it for you starting with $50 a week (!) yes, you read it correctly.
$50 to $100, to $200-300 a week tops, depending on the options. But even with $50 you get a lot! A consistent exposure to an audience that is growing all the time, who often forwards the podcasts to their friends.
Another the beautiful thing is that once the show is recorded, the information about you and your service remains there! Whether you still have a contract or not. Your banner, your logo, your voice or mine, telling them about your business...
I can take 3 or 4 advertisers, no more. I also need to do it, because the cost of running the show without advertisers has become too high.
If you are interested, send me a quick email and I will send you all the details. Then you can decide if it makes good business sense for you or not.
Today, Tuesday November 17, 2009
Gathering: 6:30PM -7PM Class: 7PM - 9:30PM
RSVP for address and directions.
Classes are held in Southern Marin
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.
Back to Thanksgiving.
What better time to be talking about Gratitude - my favorite subject?
Yet something else is coming through, and when it happens, I listen.
So here it is.
The holiday season is upon us, and with it - for many - the dreaded "obligation" of having to be around someone you've been successfully avoiding all year.
In other words - having to see people with whom you still have "unfinished business." Unfinished emotionally.
You are still hurt or angry or resentful about what happened between you in the past and this past is still very much alive in you. You have not let it go.
This unfinished business is not something benign. And therefore not something you can continue to ignore. Because it is draining your energy.
Here is how it works.
As long as you have strong feelings about a person: feel they have hurt you, are angry at them or hate them, "can't stand them", etc. etc. you remain energetically connected to them.
There are invisible cords that are holding the two of you together, the cords that stretch indefinitely, because when it comes to energy, distance and time lose their meaning.
As long as you keep these feelings alive, the cords between you are alive a well.
Why should you worry about the stupid cords that you can't even see?
For starters, because they cause you to lose your energy.
Thank God you have been born with a lot of it, otherwise you would have been depleted long ago.
But you are leaking it, energy that is - your life force. The force with which you build your life, create your dreams, make things happen...
Why do you think kids have so much energy? Adolescents as well? They haven't yet leaked enough of it out.
It is a myth that we have less energy because of age.
We have less energy because of age-old resentments.
Haven't you seen some amazingly beautiful, radiant older people, who are simply bursting with life? They seem so free, and so wise. And in their wisdom - so innocent. How did they get there? What's their secret?
They have let go of their painful past.
In one lump sum, or piece by piece.
One way or another, through innate wisdom or inner work - they have been able to let the past be the past.
They have set it down by the side of the road and - walked away.
They stopped carrying it on their back. That's why they are not bent like so many other people their age. They have amazing posture, and - they laugh a lot. So old - and yet, having so much fun? How totally against everything you have been taught to believe...
Because it is not old age that break's your back. It is age-old resentments that do it.
And - your resistance to letting them go.
I know you've heard all this before. Too many times. So many, that you have stopped hearing the truth behind these words.
The truth is: You are the one with the key to your prison. Not the person who hurt you. But - you.
Is it worth it to lose your life to whatever happened a long time ago?
Is it worth it to keep leaking and leaking your energy?
Until you've lost so much of it, it's past the point of no return?
Of course not.
Listen.
There is so much wonder that lies ahead! So many new possibilities!
Let these holidays be the time you start fresh.
Release all the people that caused you pain, whether they are alive or dead.
And release yourself from the pain of what you've deemed "unforgivable" in you.
Say: Enough.
Make that choice.
Like one incredible woman who had survived Auschwitz said:
"Hitler got 4 years of my life. I am not giving him one more day!"
If she could do it, so can anyone. Including you!
"But Auriela, you don't know what happened to me...besides I already tried to let go...and it didn't work."
Sorry, but I am not buying it.
Are you?
You might have tried, but you have never really made the choice to be done.
Come on, it's just you and the computer page. No one is listening. Not even I, the one who wrote that page. Right here, right now - tell yourself the truth.
And then - forgive yourself for keeping yourself prisoner to that past.
Forgive yourself for wanting vindication, or apology or whatever else it would be really nice to get...
You don't need it. Not really. Your ego does, but not you. What you need is your freedom. So give it to yourself - and be surprised:
It is not just possible to let go and move on, it may turn out to be easier than you can imagine.
If you read The Power of the Possible, remember the Chapter: The Son Who Forgave His Father? Or the Chapter: The Wife of an Alcoholic? These are true stories, of people like you and me.
Let their lives be your inspiration. Read these Chapters again, even if you have read them already. Read them with new eyes. They may change your life.
Watch my video on forgiveness on YouTube, download the 2 forgiveness meditations from the Home page of my website - and do them. (all the links are below.) They work! I have endless testimonials from people whose lives were changed by them.
It is a choice: To hold on to the past or - to drop it.
Holding on comes with a lot of juicy stuff: you can keep blaming, you can keep "being right" you can keep explaining away your unhappiness...
The juicy stuff is poison. Throw it out.
Don't wait for the New Year and another set of New Year's Resolutions...
Right here, right now - let this Thanksgiving be your New Beginning.
Celebrate yourself and your Power to Choose! You were born with it, even if you didn't always know it.
You do now. Contemplate this miracle. Let it fill you with Wonder!
All for now.
See some of you today, Tuesday the 17th.
Much love to you, always.
Remember: never ever give up hope!
Auriela.
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