Turn Your Life Around! Expand Your Use of 'The Secret' & Manifest Intentionally in Every Area of Your Life

By Rev. Dr. Nadine Rosechild Sullivan, Ph.D.

YOU are NOT responsible for ALL of the bad things that have happened in your life. Yet, you have an enormous amount of power to "Turn Your Life Around" now!

Build wealth, but ALSO increase your health, improve your personal self-esteem, find love and attract solid relationships, manifest protection and safety for your loved ones, and accomplish your goals and dreams with direction and determination.

This book addresses the conundrum of evil (we do not all begin or engage life on a level playing field), then shares HOW, step-by-step, to make these principles work for YOU - as you play the hand you were dealt - and manifest good in every area of YOUR life.

Dr. Sullivan answers the pressing question, "What do I do in the time between when I "believe I receive" and the time when my desire physically manifests?"

"Turn Your Life Around!" is a gem in the positive thinking/law of attraction literature, helping you see the larger picture of your own life and the areas that can benefit from a steady application of possibility principles.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rev. Dr. Nadine Rosechild Sullivan, Ph.D.
• Release date: Oct 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301234172

Rev. Dr. Nadine Rosechild Sullivan, Ph.D.

About Dr. Sullivan:Nadine Rosechild Sullivan earned her Ph.D. in sociology, with graduate concentrations in gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. She holds a graduate certificate in women’s studies and has been admitted to Golden Key International Honor Society. She also graduated summa cum laude, with program distinction, and Alpha Kappa Delta, with bachelors’ degrees in anthropology and sociology, and undergraduate minors in women’s studies, African American studies, and writing.As a sociologist, Dr. Sullivan’s research has focused on the intersections of gender, sexuality (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex), and ethnicity.As a public speaker, Dr. Sullivan focuses on sexual diversity (LGBTQI*), ethnic diversity, masculinity/femininity, and human sexuality.As a coach, Dr. Sullivan focused on the understanding of diversity, workplace relationships, and the power of positive thought for individual and team productivity.She is at home on any platform, large or small.

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Turn Your Life Around!

Expand Your Use of ‘The Secret’

& Manifest Intentionally

in Every Area of Your Life

Rev. Dr. Nadine Rosechild Sullivan, Ph.D.

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Copyright 2011 Nadine Rosechild Sullivan, Ph.D.

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ISBN-13: 978-0984822607

1. Law of Attraction. 2. Manifesting. 3. Positive Thinking.

4. Probability Thinking. 5. Ask—Believe—Receive.

6. Faith—Fourth Dimension—Power of the Tongue. 7. Visualization.

8. Affirmations. 9. Intentional Creation. I. Title.

Lifting Consciousness Press

Philadelphia, PA

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

How I Learned Manifestation: or A Tale of Two Pregnancies

Chapter 1: We Manifest All the Time

Chapter 2: Connecting with Intuition

Chapter 3: Areas of Human Need

Chapter 4: Basic Principle of Manifesting #1: Decide

Chapter 5: Basic Principle of Manifesting #2: Decree

Chapter 6: Basic Principle of Manifesting #3: Declare

Chapter 7: Making It To Your Manifestation

About the Author

Dr. Sullivan’s Expertise

Topics: Lectures, Seminars, Trainings, Workshops, Consulting

Other Works by the Author

Connect With Me Online

Endnotes

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Introduction

The intention of this book is to break down each step in what is commonly called the law of attraction (also known as the secret or manifesting) so that you can understand HOW to change your life.

It is also to encourage you to apply these spiritual principles in areas of your life beyond the financial.

And it will answer questions like:

Are you telling me that I brought all this suffering, and even the evil I’ve experienced, on myself?

And what about the realities of social stratification?

And wait, how can I be sure I have sufficient wisdom to decide that which is best for my own life?

I will teach you how to see the individual steps in manifesting, and as I do, I will illustrate for you the ways in which these principles have worked in my life.

It is my intention that this combination of teaching and stories will give you insight into the broad range of life situations to which you can successfully apply these principles or laws. Manifesting works for money, yes. But manifesting works for much more as well.

I have applied these principles to every area of my life: from discovering my path and purpose, to gaining credentials, to health, appearance, and self-esteem, to the full range of human relationships, to the safety of my family, to financial resources, and to the health and welfare of clients, friends, neighbors, and the world at large.

The needs on which they have worked for me are the same needs you face. I am sure of this because, no matter what divides us or makes our life experience different, we share a common humanity that guarantees that I know your pain and triumphs, even as you know mine.

Sit back and enjoy the ride as I describe how to reach into the substance from which the concrete world is manifest (consciousness) and create your own best life.

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How I Learned Manifestation

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A Tale of Two Pregnancies

Before I learned these principles, I lived much as most people do, tossed about by every experience.

Though I observed some in others, I had no particular magical powers.

Like you, I knew joy and sorrow, victory and defeat, triumph and self-pity. Like you, sometimes I was happy to be here, and other times, when life was particularly painful, I longed not to be. Like you, I made the best decision I could at any given step along the way.

Eventually, after what (for me) felt like a very long time, I was grown and able to forge my own life.

Along the way, I married and, ultimately, ended up with two wonderful children (At this writing, I am also blessed with the two most adorable twin grandchildren in the earth. My apologies to those who feel that they hold that crown.)

But while I ended up with two children, I had three pregnancies.

To tell you how I began manifesting, I must tell you the tale of my first two pregnancies.

I grew up in a very large family. My mother gave birth 12 times in 14 years to 13 children. She seemed to make babies like other people make dinner, like there was nothing particularly hard about it. And she talked about it in that way. She was an early proponent of natural childbirth and had studied and used the Grantly Dick-Read¹ method of natural childbirth for all 12 deliveries, rejecting all drugs. She talked about giving birth as if it were simply another one of her repetitive tasks. When I asked if it hurt, she would say, No. I was able to breathe above the pain. It’s just hard work. That’s why they call it labor.

Based in part on my mother’s description of her own experience, in part on my own reading, and in part on my access to excellent prenatal care (an obstetrical team during the pregnancy, a hospital less than 10 minutes away, and two attending midwives), I made the choice to have a home birth.

My first pregnancy was planned. My partner² and I tried to get pregnant for 11 months. I began regular prenatal care (and vitamins) early in the first trimester and carried full-term without complication, and then 17 days post mature, before I went into spontaneous labor.

I knew, and have since known, a number of women who have had successful home births, but my body was different than theirs – and different than my mother’s.

I had a very long, no-progress labor. I would labor 12 hours and make less than a half a centimeter’s progress. My cervix all but refused to dilate. (Later, it turned out that three of my mother’s five daughters had no-progress labors on their first delivery. The other two were successfully delivered by Caesarian section at about 24 hours of labor.)

I spent 37 ½ hours in first stage labor, 12 hours in transition, and 2 ½ hours pushing, for a labor of 52 hours. Somewhere in the pain-induced haze of the prolonged transition (Mom, it was not merely work!), the midwives called the hospital and spoke to the obstetrician, saying they wanted to bring me in, but the obstetrician – not convinced that I had been laboring as long as they said – talked them into waiting just a little longer, about which time my body began pushing.

On the final contraction, they lost the baby's heartbeat. When my son was born, he looked at me, but no one could get him to breathe. They started CPR and called the EMTs, who took him out of the room, his gaze still locked to mine.

I never saw him again.

The autopsy revealed nothing organically wrong with him, and it was concluded that the cause of death was the length of the labor.

After that loss, both my partner and I were terrified, but little more than a year later, we found ourselves pregnant again.

The news engulfed me in cold buckets of fear.

If I had miscarried the first time, I might have had to pass the window of time at which I had miscarried, in order to relax. But I had carried full term and beyond. I knew I would have to go all the way through the pregnancy, all the way through the delivery, and hear the baby take its first cry, before I could begin to relax in the surety that this baby was alright.

In emotional turmoil, I called a prayer hotline. The woman on the other end of that line sent me a book on the power of positive affirmations.

I wrote out appropriate affirmations on huge sheets of art paper, then posted them everywhere I spent time.

I posted affirmations on my kitchen cabinets, on the wall near where I sat on the edge of my bed, on the doors and walls of my home, in the bathroom, right in front of the toilet.

And each time I passed them, I read them out loud.

I typed out pages of affirmations, stapled them, and carried them in my purse to read under my breath, but still out loud, everywhere I went.

I was excessive.

I was terrified.

This process allowed me to anchor my own mind – to fix it on a vision of a happy, healthy baby – to be able to visualize having a child in the crib and the stroller and the car seat we had put in storage after our son’s funeral.

Everywhere I went, every day, I continually spoke these affirmations over my child, and I refused every contrary thought or image.

I also refused conversations of worry or fear with others (including relatives and in-laws).

The morning after Valentine’s Day, I went into labor with my second child. We got ready slowly, trying to make sure I wasn’t having Braxton Hicks (false labor) contractions. This time, the hospital was at a forty minute distance, and when we decided it was real, given the first experience, we still moved like there was plenty of time. At the hospital itself, there was paperwork, and getting settled in a room. When we got settled at the hospital, one doctor on my obstetrical team came in, pronounced me at 6 centimeters dilated, and turned on his heel to leave, saying, It's going to be a while.

Clutching my affirmation sheets, I said, Come on, and on the next contraction I started pushing. No recognizable transition. I went straight from first stage to pushing.

I sent my partner for help, and he came back with a nurse, who checked me, called for a gurney, and began to transfer me from the labor to the delivery room.

In the delivery room, as they transferred me from the gurney to the delivery table, with one leg on the table and the other still on the gurney, I clutched the nurse by the arm and croaked, Catch it!

She ran to my feet, saw the baby’s head crowning, help up a sheet to prevent the baby from being ejected across the room, and began vigorously nodding at the doctor, still standing in the doorway, tying on her face mask.

The doctor slid across the floor, just in time, and arms extended, caught my daughter like a football.

My first labor was 52 hours. My second labor was 5, with less than half of that spent in the hospital.

After my first labor, my muscles were so sore I didn’t walk fully upright for a month and a half.

After this birth, I could have gone dancing.

We went home in less than 24 hours, with a perfect baby, who has been the joy of my heart (along with her sister), ever since.

It is likely that I would have made reasonable progress on my second delivery, with or without positive affirmations. It is also likely that my child would have been healthy. There was nothing in the first experience that gave any contraindication against future pregnancies and births.

However, neither was there anything about the first experience to indicate that the second experience would be so dramatically easier.

The second birth, it was only work, Mom.

I gave the credit for my remarkably different, and nearly painless, experience the second time to my intentional creation through positive affirmations.

For me, it began a walk in these principles that lasts until this day.

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Chapter 1

We Manifest All the Time

Miracles come not by blindly struggling. There are laws in the spiritual realm, and you have endless resources in your heart. God is dwelling within you; but God is not going to do anything for you without coming through your own life. God is going to cooperate with you