A Girl's Guide to Greatness: Mystical Paths for Magical Women

By Zailyn Prada MATS

This autobiographical perspective at how a practice of Meditation, Guided Imagery, and Visualization for 40 years of my life helped me create the most authentic and joyful version of myself is not all about happy, happy, joy, joy. Learning can be painful. Real change and growth come from lifes difficult times. Reaching deep within to call on the wisdom of my ancestors, learning to listen to my inner spiritual guides, and then teaching this method to others has brought me here to share our stories. This book is not perfect. This method is not perfect. It is a way to reach personal realization and success. And oh the sweet satisfaction that being successful brings. It is the best revenge. It is justice, and you can do it too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781452517704

Zailyn Prada MATS

Zailyn Prada is a transpersonal coach and counselor in Southern California. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother. She received her master’s degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology during midlife, as she raised her family and traveled the world on business. Zailyn was born in Costa Rica and learned firsthand the mastery of native herbs and the mystery of the tarot. She has been published in Natural Awakenings, and has written over one hundred articles for Examiner.com. She teaches cooperative parenting workshops for divorcing parents and is an ordained interfaith minister. Zailyn and her husband, Random, live devoted to their children’s physical, emotional, and spiritual progress; protecting the Earth; baking cupcakes; and leaving a legacy of peace, truth, and joy to their grandchildren.

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A Girl’s Guide to Greatness

Mystical Paths for Magical Women

Zailyn Prada MATS

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Balboa Press rev. date: 07/17/2014

Contents

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Prologue

Chapter 1: The Beginning

Guided Imagery and Decades of Dreams

Guided Imagery Defined

Chapter 2: Early Experiences with Visualization

Innate Ability for Guided Imagery in Children

Cultural Influences on Visualization in Childhood

Chapter 3: Adolescent Experiences with Guided Imagery

Natasha and yoga

Chapter 4: Visualization and Guided Imagery in Early Adulthood

Manifesting Motherhood

Listening to Our Bodies

Using Guided Imagery to Set Priorities

Visualization as a Parent – Maria’s story

Chapter 5: The Use of Guided Imagery for Achieving Goals

Discovering the Power Within

Natasha’s Transition

Chapter 6: Guided Imagery and Transpersonal Development

Revisiting Religion – Geneva explained her challenges

Discovering Transpersonal Psychology-Natasha

Chapter 7: Redefining Ourselves

Healing the Body

Recovery

Chapter 8: Superwoman

Surviving Motherhood with Guided Imagery

Advice to Our Daughters

Personal Experience Staying on the Balance Beam through Inner Work

Personal Experience with Guided Imagery and Visualization

Instructions on Developing a Personal Practice

Guided Imagery Journey for Accessing Your Inner Advisors

Chapter 9: Our Sacred Calling

Love and Midlife

References

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my parents, because dreaming was your job, and I learned my lesson well, to my husband, you are my touch stone and my hero, to my children, because you’ve helped me grow-up and continue to mature day by day, to my grandchildren, because you are the joy that makes it well worth it, and to my best friend, because you’ve held my hand through it all.

Preface

T his is a paper that came together originally as a requirement for my Master’s degree in Transpersonal Studies. It evolved from a scholarly paper into a composite of stories of pain, challenges, growth, and triumph. It is a way to move forward, overcome obstacles, and reach your highest potential. It may not be the way for everyone, but it was the way for these girls, as told to me, in the first person. It is at times beautiful, at times horrible, but it brought them to me to share their story. I hope and pray that these words, so meaningful to us all will also resonate with you. That whether you are twenty-two years old, or going through menopause, you will find yourself somewhere among these pages and see the light at the end of the tu nnel.

With love,

Zailyn

Introduction

T his is an anecdotal look at how a life time practice of Meditation, Guided Imagery, and Visualization for these characters helped them create the most authentic and joyful version of themselves and is not all about happy, happy, joy, joy. Learning can be painful. Real change and growth come from life’s difficult times. To say any one of them was able to sit down and chant OM while sending love and light to an ex-husband as he ran off with his latest fling and left her penniless with three children to raise, is a bold face lie! Moments like those can make a girl fantasize about inventing a pill that would make her ex’s penis shrink until it fell off! Being unable to pay the rent, betrayed by a rebound man, and ending up in the hospital aren’t exactly smooth sailing either. But there was a pattern about these girls and women, something deep, something sacred, something I, as a spiritual counselor could not have even defined until I was well into my profession. This is what this book explores. Some of these practices they came to intuitively, and some they learned. Still some were family traditions, what I now know to be ancient practices passed down from ancestors, written in books, and taught about in churches and metaphysical centers. There is something we can do to manifest our greatest desires, to heal, and to grow. This book is not perfect. This method is not perfect. It is about how these girls and women found their own sacred paths to personal realization and success. And oh the sweet satisfaction