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I could sure use your feedback!

Posted on May 7, 2010 | 1 comment

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As you may know, I have received enough votes (thank you!) to move on to Round 2 of the Next Top Spiritual Author competition. Round 2 requires us to submit a book proposal, the same kind we would submit if we were pitching our books to publishers even without this competition.

Here’s where your help would be tremendously valuable. If you would answer whichever one of these questions is appropriate, I will send blessings unto the 10th generation in gratitude. ;-*

1. If you have read Shape Shifting, please let me know your favorite aspects of it, so I can be sure to emphasize those features.

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2. If you haven’t read Shape Shifting, please read the information below and let me know: what are the questions you have about the book and its concepts?

Here are the book’s vitals:

AUTHOR: Lisa Bonnice

BOOK TITLE: Shape Shifting–the Body/Mind/Spirit weight solution

GENRE: Body Messages, Conscious Creation, Health: Weight Loss, Personal Development, Transformation

SUMMARY: What if you were able to see excess weight or illness as a blessing … as clues to a mystery to be solved? What if you could learn to change your body’s physical condition for the better by becoming more consciously aware? You can learn to become a Shape Shifter and help your body to become its healthiest self.

NEXT TOP SPIRITUAL AUTHOR PAGE: http://www.nexttopauthor.com/profile.cfm?aid=2155

BOOK DESCRIPTION: What if you were able to see your body’s physical condition as a treasure map to your internal world? What if you were able to see excess weight or illness as a blessing … as clues to a mystery to be solved? What if you could learn to change your body’s physical condition for the better by becoming more consciously aware?

You can do all this and more! You can learn to become a Shape Shifter and help your body to become its healthiest self. Shift your thoughts, shift your shape!

Are you ready to step out of the mainstream diet maelstrom … an old-fashioned and broken system … and into your future Self? Diet and exercise are all well and good, but we all know that they don’t create lasting results if the dieter doesn’t change fundamental things about the way they live their everyday lives. These lifestyle changes are by far the hardest to make, but Shape Shifting gives the reader a fascinating and friendly body/mind/spirit method of creating a whole new life, with a healthier body as a bonus!

You’ll enjoy this book if you’re interested in manifesting the healthiest expression of your Self, using the power of your body/mind/spirit. You’re not interested in looking like someone else’s ideal of what you “should” look like. You’ve had it up to here with what others think your body should be.

Imagine how great it will feel when you finally feel good in your own skin. It’s not an impossible dream. You really can feel great about yourself. In fact, the sooner you do, the sooner you will begin to shift your shape into its healthiest form. What’s even more exciting is that, as you begin to see results, you’ll notice that your overall life is getting better, too! That’s because you’re learning to be your genuine, authentic self … the self that lives in your DNA, the self you came here to be. And as you become more genuine and authentic, then so does your life. It feels so wonderful that you won’t believe you ever lived any other way.

Shape Shifting includes a foreword by Neale Donald Walsch.

AUTHOR BIO: Lisa Bonnice has been studying metaphysics and the magical arts for most of her life, including pursuing a degree in metaphysics. She is gifted with a very clear vision of how the body/mind/spirit connection works, and the ability to communicate that connection in a friendly, down-to-earth way.

She spent over five years as a multi award-winning affiliate writer and producer for MSNBC.com. Lisa also worked as an editor for Future Medicine Publishers’ Alternative Medicine-The Definitive Guide and spent seven years as a standup comedienne. Among her many other strange and wonderful jobs, Lisa has been a humor columnist, news writer, television reporter and a writer for the TV variety show Hollywood Revue.

Her radio show, Shape Shifting with Lisa Bonnice, features experts in body/mind/spirit consciousness, to help the listening audience better understand how to Shape Shift. Her blog and discussion forums are designed for readers … or Shape Shifters … to receive assistance on their own journeys. Lisa has even formed a Shape Shifters Team on the famous SparkPeople site where she has created a free version of her Shape Shifters Daily Diary.

Lisa has also had the honor of addressing the Spiritual Caucus at the UN, while serving in her role as Southern Regional Coordinator for Humanity’s Team.

She has two daughters-Kristina and Stacy-who grew up to be very cool people and are terrific fun to be around, and three zany grandkids. She and her husband Jeff currently reside in Florida.

Oh yeah-she’s also lived a zillion or so times.

http://www.shapeshiftingonline.com

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Thank you to everyone who helped me make it to Round 2!

Posted on May 6, 2010 | 3 comments

Words cannot express how much I appreciate the votes and support I received over the past few weeks as I’ve asked for your votes and help getting the word out about Shape Shifting–the Body/Mind/Spirit weight solution, my entry in the Next Top Spiritual Author competition. I just discovered that, thanks to you, I have been advanced to Round Two. Out of approximately 3,000 entries, you helped to make make it to the top 250.

Voting for Round Two begins on May 24th. Competing authors are asked to submit a book proposal, in much the same way any author who is pursuing a publisher would do. Round Two will be decided, again, by a popular vote, but this time a panel of judges will weigh in … as will a representative from the company that is offering the grand prize of a publishing contract, Hampton Roads.

I could not have made it to Round Two without you, and I hope you’re ready to do it again in a few weeks. I’ll keep ya posted!

ॐ ۞ Namaste ۞ ॐ

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Happy happy joy joy!

Posted on May 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

I weighed myself this morning to discover that I’ve lost a total of 11.1 pounds (love all those ones!) in the past couple months, since I started using the Wii Fit and the SparkPeople page, combined with a renewed passion for Shape Shifting. But I have even more exciting news!

Last year at this time I joined Curves … which didn’t work well for me, but I see how it can benefit others … and this morning I pulled out my paperwork from that time. Since last March, I’ve lost 25 pounds!

I wasn’t even tracking that weight, I was only paying attention to what I’ve done this year! I definitely deserve to be patting myself on the back a lot more than I have been.

Shift your thoughts, shift your shape!!!
http://www.shapeshiftingonline.com

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Get grounded to access your power!

Posted on May 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NING SITE ON JUNE 27, 2009 (I’m moving old posts from that site, which is closing down, to my WordPress blog):

Being “grounded” doesn’t sound fun, not even the metaphysical version. To me, that word means punishment, so I’ve avoided listening to advice that says I should be grounded. Boy, was I wrong! I’ve learned that being grounded was the only way I could access my power!

You’ve heard the advice. It usually says something like “Sit up straight and put your feet on the floor. Imagine your feet connecting with the earth and roots growing out of them. Then imagine a silver cord connecting your root chakra to the center of the earth…”

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz … huh? Oops, sorry. Did I drift off?

I didn’t want to be grounded, because life on Earth is pretty boring and dull. I’ve always preferred playing around in the psychic realms. I spent most of my life reaching upwards, trying to escape living in my body. In fact, I even mentioned briefly in my book, Shape Shifting—reclaiming YOUR perfect body, that I realized my weight gain was partly my body’s effort to keep me grounded. Even so, I had no interest in grounding. I’d rather be fat and psychic than skinny and mundane.

So when my friend, psychic astrologer Glenna Dietrich, recently did an astrology reading for me, and mentioned that my chart says that I was born extremely ungrounded, I was amazed because I thought all this time that I am stuck in the physical and need to escape. She told me that I am so up in the air that it is imperative that I get grounded. Hence, the topic of our most recent radio show, Grounding and Self-Healing (listen here … it’s one of the best shows yet!).

But even before that show, I was playing around with the idea of grounding, only because she insisted. I imagined the typical scenario: I dropped the proverbial cord from my root chakra into the center of the Earth. This felt uncomfortable. I felt like I had to hoard all my energy … I didn’t want to let it drain into the Earth, because I felt like I wouldn’t have enough then. So I also added a cord upward, from the top of my head, to connect to the source of my energy, wherever that may be. That way I got the best of both “worlds.”

I realized, as I did this meditation, that the upper cord helped me to feel replenished, like I didn’t have to hoard excess energy because I have an infinite supply now. I’m able to allow it to run through me like an appliance, which never wonders if there will be enough power to let it run if it’s plugged in. This offered exquisite relief because now I don’t feel so very static and overloaded, and the fear of “never enough” has been alleviated. I don’t have to cling so tightly to what I’ve managed to collect.

As I explored this concept, I realized that (as I mentioned on the radio show) what I have been doing my entire life is similar to revving up a toy car … you know the kind that you roll across the ground over and over in order to wind up the toy’s mechanism … but never putting it down and letting it go, to zoom across the floor. I was revving up my own motor, “manifesting” like a mofo, but never touching down into the physical realm long enough to let my creations grab any traction in the 3D realm. No wonder so many of my projects, which I’ve been working on for so very long, haven’t ever been realized! The ones that have are those that I put down and released. Those that haven’t, I’m still revving up in the ethers.

For example, since I’ve started really focusing on this work, which corresponds with my use of my own creation, the Shape Shifter’s Daily Diary, I’ve not only dropped 16 pounds (and 13 inches) I’ve also completed a short novel! Many of my friends are astounded that it didn’t take very long to write, but the story has been in my head for over five years. I just finally put it down and let it zoom across the keyboard.

If you’ve listened to the radio show I’ve written about here, you know that Glenna agreed to record a meditation to help us to get grounded. A woman of her word, she and I recorded it this week. Here is a link where you can download the mp3 file (right click and “Save As…”) and listen to it yourself. This recording includes that meditation, which is about 17 minutes long and is like nothing you’ve ever heard before. It’s not the same old “Be like a tree” meditation that we’ve all heard … this is something brand new and very powerful! Glenna and I then continued our conversation from the radio show, so if you’re interested in even more information, continue listening after the meditation is over.

I want to apologize for the sometimes lousy sound quality during the conversation. This wasn’t recorded in a studio, but on one of those conference call lines. However, the meditation is still stunning and potent, and I think it will change your life if you use it. Please share this recording with your friends and don’t forget to tell them where you got it … www.shapeshiftingonline.com!

Enjoy!

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Hurry up and wait…

Posted on May 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NING SITE ON JUNE 14, 2009 (I’m moving old posts from that site, which is closing down, to my WordPress blog):

I keep visiting my blog site, wondering if or when I’ll ever write a new blog. Nothing is occuring to me to be worth writing about. It’s not because nothing is going in, it’s because I’m in “hurry up and wait” mode.

The more people I talk to, the more I realize it’s not just me, feeling this way. There is a strange hum in the air, an expectant feeling of “now isn’t the time to act, so just hang on another little while longer.”

If you read Karen Bishop, you know that she has been discussing this kind of thing for years, and she swears that the Summer Solstice this year is going to be a doozy. She claims that the waiting will be over.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for that waiting to be over. Maybe then I’ll have something to write about. Meantime, please feel free to start your own discussions in the forum here. Maybe you have something interesting to say!

I might as well take this opportunity to remind you of a few things going on this month:

This month’s radio show (with guest Glenna Dietrich) is on June 17, at 1:00 PM. Glenna and I (and the Guides) will be discussing self-healing, grounding and whatever else comes up! Check out this link for more information:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shapeshifting

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Fat thighs are grounding?

Posted on May 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NING SITE ON JUNE 3, 2009 (I’m moving old posts from that site, which is closing down, to my WordPress blog):

I’ve successfully completed my first Shape Shifter’s Daily Diary (a three-month cycle … just enough to get a lot done, but not so much that goals seem so far into the future that we can’t connect with them) and, at the risk of sounding like a marketing pitch, I have to say that I’m completely impressed with how well it works. My initial goals were not only realized, but they were exceeded!

The first two goals—to have daily access to a car (we were a one-car family) and to make substantial progress on a novel that I had not even started at the time—are in the bag. Jeff now has his own ride (a super-fun Honda 600 Silverwing), and I’ve written 136 pages and am well into Act Two. I’m VERY happy with this accomplishment.

But the real triumph is my success over some awful health issues that caused an inability to exercise (read my past blogs, if you’re interested in details). I got to a point where I just wasn’t going to lose any more weight because my diet was as healthy and balanced as I can make it at my current level of knowledge and ability. Without burning calories, I was going nowhere, but exercising made me so ill that I did very little of it.

This is what I wrote on the first day of my Diary, under the “Primary Goal” heading:

“I’m concentrating on getting my health back on track. My goal is to be able to exercise and ENJOY doing it. I want to get in shape and be healthy once and for all.”

So I set my intent that I would finally find a health practitioner or two (turns out it was way more than that) who would be able to finally help me break through this brick wall. It took a lot of struggle and hard work, but I’m proud to say that I am now regularly exercising, three times a week, at Curves and am seeing a very visible difference in how I look and I am experiencing a palpable difference in how I feel.

It’s still hard to make myself leave the house and actually go do it, but once I’m there I do enjoy the workout and after a temporary feeling of having my ass kicked, I feel great the rest of the day and miss it on the days I don’t go. My energy levels are getting higher and my posture is improving. I’m in a good mood much more often and the almost constant state of anxiety I was dealing with is mellowing out. Plus, I’m looking younger and healthier. Yay!

Of course, since my preferred focus is on the body/mind/spirit aspect of all of this, I would be remiss if I didn’t include the fact that I’ve also broken through countless metaphysical barriers as well. As my weight has been decreasing (I’ve lost 13 pounds, and 10.5 inches) and my body is now toning, I’ve been dealing with lots more self-esteem issues and releasing lots of emotional baggage. Old karmic patterns are coming up, to be dealt with, and I’m finally ready to face and dissolve them. It hasn’t been easy, but I’m stronger as a result.

As I’m exercising, I’m breaking up and releasing old bullshit, stored in my body as fat. I wasn’t ready for this before, apparently. I hadn’t matured enough to be able to forgive and release the things I’m dealing with these days.

Interestingly, the one part of my body that hasn’t yet released any inches is my thighs. My thighs are naturally heavy anyway (genetics … what are ya gonna do?) but I could definitely stand to shave off a few inches. So I looked in my favorite body/mind book, Debbie Shapiro’s Healing Mind, Healing Body (find a link in the Recommended Reading forum post) and laughed out loud at what it said. It described EXACTLY the stuff that I’m working on right now. Dig this:

“Our legs express a level of groundedness or firmness, as well as the passage of life we have experienced and the direction we are now going in … Being nearest to the pelvis, the thighs tend to represent the more inner and personal aspect of moving. Issues here can be closely associate to sexuality, to expression, to being able to share ourselves and our movement with another. This is intimately connected to our sense of femininity or masculinity. Issues to do with our parents are also found here, as we have to move away from the parental energy as we grow and mature. Excess weight in this area is like a build-up of mental resistance to fully expressing or finding our own direction, and to being at peace with our sexual expression; it is a way of blocking off from really experiencing the depth of our feelings in this part of our bodymind.”

I haven’t mentioned this yet, but I recently asked my dear friend, psychic/astrologer Glenna Dietrich, to do a chart for me and one of the main things she kept pounding away at is how very ungrounded I am because of my chart and that it is vitally important for me to ground. I’ve been deliberately working on that (I’ll be blogging about that soon enough) So I was delighted when I read that the legs are all about grounding, and the thighs are about the things I’ve been putting on the back burner.

I’m pretty sure that by the time I’m done with my new Shape Shifter’s Daily Diary, I’ll be able to report a healthy loss of several inches of fat from my thighs.

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Recalibrating my default attraction setting

Posted on May 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NING SITE ON MAY 25, 2009 (I’m moving old posts from that site, which is closing down, to my WordPress blog):

I’ve spent a lot of time lately being more deliberate about practicing what I preach. I can blog about the Law of Attraction with the best of them, but do I always follow my own advice every day? Not so much. It’s time to change that.

I have seen some remarkable demonstrations in my life of how I get EXACTLY what I ask for, but only when I’m “in the zone” when I ask. So what I’m working on now is staying in that zone more often. Isn’t that what we’re all working toward? Living life more deliberately and consciously?

Today Jeff and I went for a ride on the bike, down some of the Florida back roads … real Florida, where the gators live … not tourist-glitzed Florida. We stopped in a little fishing village to watch some of the locals fishing off a bridge that runs over an inlet from the Gulf. It was a beautiful, sunny day and I deeply inhaled the Isness of it. I wished that every day could feel this good. Then it suddenly occurred to me that this wouldn’t be a bad vibrational set-point to start from in my everyday life.

After all, the Law of Attraction isn’t just working when we make an effort to deliberately manifest something; it’s at work ALL THE TIME. There isn’t a single moment that isn’t a creative one, so we need to pay attention to what we’re thinking when we don’t think we’re thinking, and be mindful of how far off center we want to go during a delicious bitchfest. And, honestly, I’ll often find that long stretches of time have gone by with me in a pissy mood without paying much attention to what I’m creating with it. Think of all the pissy scenarios I’ve just manifested because my “at rest” vibration was so low.

So how do I raise my default setting? Declare it to be so. Capture the moment and tell the Universe that this is where you want your inner Feel-o-Stat to level off from now on.

That’s what I’m doing right now. I’m putting in my request that life is always at least this groovy. This is as low feeling as I wish to go from now on, until I choose to bump it up even higher. Now I just need to stay out of my way and not override that request with sabotaging thoughts. Maybe I can add to that a request for a little assistance keeping the new vibe in place while I get used to what it feels like.

Well, that was easy, wasn’t it?

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TRIUMPH!!! (and Challenge)

Posted on May 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NING SITE ON MAY 19, 2009 (I’m moving old posts from that site, which is closing down, to my WordPress blog):

I got my weight/measurement update at Curves yesterday and am really excited with the results! I’ve lost 10.25 inches and 11 pounds! Woohoo!!!

I’m more excited about the lost inches than the number on the scale because I’ve long said that I’m pretty okay with my weight, it was the lack of muscle tone that concerned me. However, now that I’ve reached this point, the Curves lady rolled out all the BMI/ASCAP/MOUSE numbers and told me that my goal weight should be another 40 pounds lighter than I currently am.

I don’t know how I feel about that. I will admit that it feels wonderful to have made the changes I’ve made. I feel lighter, healthier, younger and more excited about getting up in the morning. I’m sure that by losing some more pounds that feeling will increase exponentially. However, now that I’m faced with a decision about whether to lose more weight or not, some of my “issues” are surfacing.

For example, the closer I feel to the younger, healthier, skinnier me, the less I feel like I will be taken seriously. I wrote about this in Shape Shifting, but thought I worked through it. Apparently I only allowed myself to lose enough weight (isn’t 50 pounds enough???) to look acceptable, but not enough to have to face this issue. The thought of looking thinner and younger is bringing back memories of being treated like I’m an idiot just because I’m a girl and have a curvy body.

Back in the old days, I was built sort of like Valerie Bertinelli or Mila Kunis … not a knockout bombshell, but a cute, tiny package. And no one took me seriously, not even myself. I realize, now, that I was also adding weight to compensate for a lack of height!

On the flip side, I will never be taken seriously as a “weight loss” author if I don’t lose the weight! But I don’t want to be thought of as a weight loss author! Unfortunately, that’s how people view my work. I’ve been to many expos and seen their reactions. I have had people actually say to me, “Well, if you’re writing about weight loss, you probably better lose some weight!” Never mind the 50 that I’ve already lost and the fact that I’m perfectly content with the number I see on the scale. I don’t look like their idea of a weight loss success story, so I must not have a clue what I’m talking about.

I’m so confused. I guess what I’ll do, until I figure out a specific plan of action, is to continue working toward my healthiest body and if that means a lower number on the scale, so be it. I will augment that intention with taking myself more seriously, which will then ripple outward to those who were merely mirroring my own lack of self-esteem.

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I get to buy your votes! ;-)

Posted on April 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Next Top Spiritual Author contest folks have just made it possible for me to offer a “thank you” gift for voters. After you vote for me and Shape Shifting–the Body/Mind/Spirit weight solution, you can download a free ebook of Shape Shifting–reclaiming YOUR perfect body, the currently published version of the book I’m entering in the contest. Those who have already voted can visit the link to download their copy.

http://www.nexttopauthor.com/profile.cfm?aid=2155

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Lots of radio shows this week!

Posted on April 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

Just a quick post to keep everyone updated with the four radio shows I have scheduled for the next week or so.

Last night I was on Insights for the Soul, and it was one of the best interview shows I’ve done so far. Please listen to the archive because you’ll get a very deep understanding of Shape Shifting and why I think I have a chance at winning the Next Top Spiritual Author competition.

Wednesday, April 7 at noon EST I will be the guest on the Joy of Love and Life Next Top Spiritual Author series show by Tambra Harck on BlogTalkRadio.

Then, April 7 at 8PM EST, I will be hosting a special episode of Shape Shifting, with my guest psychic reader Carmen Brower. She is incredibly gifted and will be offering readings.

Next week, on April 13, I will once again be Bel Marshall’s guest on Bel’s Light. It’s always a fun time with Bel!

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