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Metabolic Healing, Part III

I don't know why I persist in posting these painful personal experiences from my fight to heal my metabolism via the Schwarzbein Program. Especially the photographs! I see those on my blog now and say to myself, Gosh, Lianne, did you have to put those out there? But something in my Violet life color, Chinese Earth rhythm, Aquarian self presses me to share, just in case it might help someone else.

This past week I have felt "terribly terrible," as I kept saying to Joseph. NOTHING would relieve some deep underlying stress and sensation that everything was confused and wrong in my life and I was lost. Nope, not even my attunement with my Cosmic Mentors, which would normally do the trick. Which means that something was indeed terribly terribly wrong.

My first celebrity endorsement!

Remember this photo of me with Donna Eden, world-famous energy healer and author of Energy Medicine and Energy Medicine for Women, after an advanced class we took with her?

See that book in her hand? It's one of my novels, and even though she's incredibly busy, her assistant just emailed a note from her to Joseph & me. It included this about Cosmic Dancer:

"It is a wonderful book!"

Yep, it's going on the cover with her permission. Thank you, Donna!

Do you know other celebrities who might endorse a novel about life after death, reincarnation, ballet, and the challenges of life as a psychic teenager? Suggestions welcome--especially if you know how to reach them! :)

Positive Expectations: An illustrated guide

Positive expectations. This is an energy principle my spiritual mentor, Ruth Norman (aka Uriel), tried really hard to instill in me.

I'm not talking about affirmations or visualizations or pie-in-the-sky. I mean simply holding an attitude in your mind that things will work out, that all will be well. (And I don't have to tell you what the opposite to that is.)

I've been told that children of alcoholics have trouble with this concept. So I've worked on it, and now I generally walk around in a positive state of mind, greeting and grateful for all the good things that happen to me.

But the other day, I had a visual demonstration of this vital principle. (It happened to take place in my "Knowledge and Self-Cultivation Area," for those of you who are into Feng Shui and Bagua maps.)

My Bear Encounters in Sequoia National Park (Part II)

In Part I, "Overcoming My Fear of Bears," you read about my extreme phobia of bears, a fear I’ve had since birth as the result of a past-life, unfortunately deadly encounter with a grizzly. It’s a fear I’ve worked on slowly over the years, preparation for my day of testing: If a bear suddenly emerged from the woods now, would I be able to stay calm and stay alive? Or would I scream? run? faint? vomit? die of heart failure on the spot? all of the above?

You learned about my bear-expert sister’s advice, about my reliving of the past-life death and how it related to my husband, Joseph, as well. You’ve heard me mention my use of the newest, most effective form of post-traumatic stress treatment presently known: energy psychology (acupressure tapping) techniques. And now you’re going to read what happened when the moment came, with pictures and video.

Overcoming My Fear of Bears (Part I)

Rough-housing teenaged Alaskan brown bears, aka grizzlies!
This is why humans and bears can't play together!
[Photo copyright Linda Jo Hunter]

I’ve had a terrifying phobia of bears all my life. The first time I saw one I was three years old and fell deathly ill. Ironically, my older sister is a bear expert, serving three seasons as a grizzly-viewing guide at a lodge in Alaska and writing a popular book about her experiences. She took this picture at close range. (!!)

Karma? You bet! But decades later in life, I still hadn’t overcome my knee-melting, stomach jolting FEAR at the very thought of bears. Until last week.

A new short story by ME! Only 99 cents!

Hey Everybody! I just published a short story on Kindle for fun, and here's the link to it. It's cheap, too! But a darn good story, I think. :) A love story with a dash of mystery and a hint of metaphysics, of course.

It's called "The Black-Sequined Dress" and if (unlike me) you can remember how to spell sequined, you'll find it on Amazon Kindle if you search for it. Or search for my name. You can actually read a free sample even though it's a short story! Here's the link:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Sequined-Dress-ebook/dp/B00658TOI0
Don't have a Kindle device? No worries. Go to Amazon and download the free Kindle for PC or Kindle for MAC or Kindle for Whatever software and you can read it on another device. (I don't have a Kindle either so I use their software on my PC.)

I'd love to hear your reviews. You can post a comment below. Or even better (especially if you liked it), you can post a review on that empty review section on Amazon! :-D

Warning: You will find some promotional info at the end of the story about my novel *Cosmic Dancer.* It's what we authors must do. Hope you're not offended. You can always skip it, and I promise you will have already gotten your 99-cents worth of story.

Now about that Coffee-Break Tale ... of course it has an unusual back-story. It's me, right? So I was just sitting at a keyboard in California one day in 2003 when someone started telling it to me in my head. The subject matter couldn't have been further from my thoughts.

This was before Joseph and I moved back to the Midwest. It had been 30-some years since I'd lived in southwestern Michigan, and I never ever lived in Indiana. However, my grandfather came from somewhere in the southern reaches of Indiana. As far as I know, this isn't his story. Is it? And my mother's Amish and Mennonite relatives came from northern parts of Indiana, but this doesn't seem to be their story at all.

Yet it definitely feels as if the story were "dictated" to me by someone who needed the tale to be told. I still wonder if they weren't related to my grandfather somehow. And I haven't gotten past the emotions yet, which still affect me no matter how many times I've read it. (Joseph too.) My own story? No, I don't think so ... but ???

But if I say any more, I might give something away ... So--enjoy!

Four Fabulous Days with Energy Healer Donna Eden

GREAT NEWS!  An extraordinary experience this past weekend has convinced us to teach Survival Skills for the 21st Century™ again in 2012. Our class includes a variety of essential techniques. But what spurred the decision, after a four-year hiatus, was our attendance at a rare, four-day Donna Eden Advanced Energy Medicine class.

Called “Energy, Intuition, and Eden's Way," it was held at the incongruous Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter. Following are pictures, thoughts, and anecdotes from this exciting weekend.