| Elizabeth Lessor is co-founder of Omega Institute in | | | | authentically, she said. |
| Rhinebeck, NY and author of "Broken Open" and | | | | Religion and the Law Of Attraction (LOA) was the |
| "The Seeker's Guide." | | | | next topic. |
| Omega is a Mecca for Spiritual Seekers all over the | | | | Oprah said that when her one time minister told the |
| world who come there to commune with others on | | | | congregation that God is a jealous God, she had an |
| the spiritual path. Everyone there has a commonality: | | | | instant awakening. |
| they are seeking community and connection with one | | | | She thought to herself, "I thought God Is Love." |
| another and with the larger whole. | | | | Wait a minute, Oprah thought. Is God jealous or is |
| When Oprah asked Elizabeth Lesser to define | | | | God Love? |
| spirituality, she said that it is a state of complete | | | | And thus she began the process of thinking for |
| fearlessness, detached from all worry and anxiety. | | | | herself. |
| Elizabeth used Michael J. Fox as an example of such | | | | The LOA is one part of the spiritual journey. Elizabeth |
| fearlessness because he said he welcomed his illness, | | | | said that LOA is the faith that whatever happens is |
| Parkinson's, and if given the choice, he would choose | | | | meant for your growth in this (and all) lifetimes. |
| to become ill again. | | | | LOA is choosing a vibrational frequency that |
| The lessons he learned were that valuable. | | | | harmonizes with a higher frequency and vibration, |
| Elizabeth and Oprah covered three topics: Death and | | | | such as love, joy, transcendence and peace. |
| Dying, the Law Of Attraction and religion, and the | | | | The last of the great human freedoms is choice in |
| AHA experiences Oprah, Elizabeth and those listening | | | | how you respond to the circumstances in your life. |
| and watching the program had as a result of | | | | Each circumstance leads to the next lesson in your |
| watching the entire Soul Series. | | | | evolution. |
| Elizabeth was the person who compiled exercises for | | | | Universal energy is present for you to use in order to |
| "A New Earth Webinar," and these can be accessed | | | | allow you to become a better person. |
| on Oprah's website. | | | | Set your intention, and show up fully. Pray to be |
| Here are some examples of "The Awakening | | | | used for a power greater than yourself. |
| Exercises" that Elizabeth put together for the world | | | | Don't pray for things. |
| wide audience: | | | | Elizabeth said that Jesus came to show us Christ |
| 1) Take any routine activity that normally is only a | | | | Consciousness, because He was a Revolutionary. |
| means to an end and give it your fullest attention. | | | | When we get stuck in dogma, we are blinded to the |
| Choose one or two activities that you do routinely, | | | | prophets of our time. |
| (such as washing dishes, or walking from point A to | | | | Death, dying and grief was the next topic. |
| point B), and bring your fullest attention to these. | | | | Elizabeth said that grief is a badge as to how much |
| 2) Listen to the voice in your head. Ask yourself: Am | | | | we loved. |
| I the thoughts that are going through my mind? | | | | In our society, we get three days of bereavement |
| Or am I the one who is aware that these thoughts | | | | (if that) and then, back to work, full speed ahead, |
| are going through my mind? | | | | without time to fully be with the sorrow and the |
| 3) Become aware of your breathing. Feel the air | | | | memories. |
| flowing in and out of your body. Feel your inner | | | | Oprah and Elizabeth discussed the custom of wearing |
| energy field. All that you ever have to deal with and | | | | black for a full year, allowing "time" to move through |
| cope with in real life--as opposed to imaginary mind | | | | the loss, to be alone and to sit with it. |
| projections, Is This Moment. | | | | This slowing down and sitting with the pain frightens |
| Ask yourself what "problem you have right now, not | | | | people. Many are driven to the doctor for a |
| next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now." | | | | prescription for anti-depressants. |
| Ask yourself: What is wrong with this moment? | | | | We can prepare ourselves for the Big Deaths in our |
| In reality, the moment is perfect, but it's my thinking | | | | lives by fully participating in all the little losses in our |
| that makes it less than beautiful. | | | | lives. |
| 4) Give up the waiting as a state of mind. When you | | | | An example of a little loss, according to Oprah and |
| catch yourself slipping into waiting, snap out of it! | | | | Elizabeth, is no longer being 20 or 30, when we were |
| Come into the present moment. Just Be, and enjoy | | | | considered to be "Babes." |
| Being. If you are present, there is never any need | | | | Now we are considered to be Wise Ones by all the |
| for you to wait for anything. | | | | "Babes" we commune with!! |
| When someone says, "Sorry to keep you waiting," | | | | The last topic was the AHA moments people |
| you can say, "That's all right. I wasn't waiting, I was | | | | experience as a result of watching the Soul Series. |
| standing here enjoying myself." | | | | One person described a shift in her consciousness as |
| And so on, an exercise for each chapter of Tolle's | | | | she listened to Eckhart Tolle describe living fully in the |
| book. | | | | present moment, without labeling experience or |
| Elizabeth continued in Oprah's interview, by saying | | | | making assumptions about it. |
| that all humans are afraid and insecure but we all | | | | My own personal AHA experience was listening and |
| think we are the only ones experiencing the fear. | | | | watching Jane Bolte Taylor discuss and describe her |
| So much time is wasted in trying to be perfect. | | | | stroke. I also read her book, "A Stroke Of Insight." |
| Elizabeth said, "The soul is the river of energy which | | | | Then I contemplated my own mother's stroke, and |
| animates who we are. When you follow this river of | | | | found great peace in the realization that my instincts |
| energy, it's almost impossible to go wrong. This flow | | | | about my mother's experience as she was having her |
| can lead you to your own greatness if you follow it | | | | stroke was right on. |
| with an open mind." | | | | First of all, she appeared to be free for the first time |
| Oprah asked Elizabeth what her "Broken Open" | | | | in her life. |
| experience was. | | | | She appeared to be experiencing a spiritual |
| Elizabeth cited her divorce because of the shame and | | | | transformation. |
| terror she felt surrounding the experience. She felt | | | | Yet people all around me were saying or thinking, |
| like she lost her financial stability and learned that | | | | "How terrible that your mother had a stroke." |
| what you resist, persists. | | | | And I was with her when she died, and was touched |
| She learned to stop fighting and judging the | | | | by such a love that for a period of several days, I |
| experience, and in the process, learned to go through | | | | felt no judgment or resentment towards anyone. |
| it, healing into wholeness. | | | | I was in a broadened, boundary-less dimension. |
| She learned that the divorce itself wasn't the | | | | I was touched by a loving spirit, the stroke and |
| problem, but the acrimony causing disharmony was | | | | eventual death of my dear mother. |
| what harmed everyone involved. | | | | Secretly, I rejoiced in the great beauty and grace of |
| The greatest gift you can give your children in any | | | | the Universal Energy. |
| divorce is to co-parent cooperatively and | | | | |