Enlightenment Appetizers: A Taste of Enlightenment in Everyday Life

By Victoria A. Vetere PhD HC

Unique full-color, 8 x11 inch, magazine style Enlightenment book! Thirty-six articles covering Work, Relationships, Health, Spirituality, Consciousness, and much more. This book is as powerfully practical as it is beautiful. For both avid students of energy science and also for their bewildered friends and family! These pages will inspire and also explain how life really works, and how to enhance yours! As an added bonus, you receive a FREE online course entitled, Energy Science 101: How Life Really Works!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jun 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504328715

Victoria A. Vetere PhD HC

Victoria A. Vetere, PhD, HC, is a life coach, teacher, writer, speaker, and radio show host. Her studies and training have encompassed both Western and Eastern healing traditions including psychology, holistic kinesiology, Reiki, meditation, yoga, sound healing, Ayurveda, and aromatherapy. Dr. Vetere inspires and instigates Enlightenment wherever and whenever possible! She currently resides in Columbus, Ohio, with her two fantastic felines. Victoria has combined her love of art and her dedication to feline welfare by creating ZenCat Gallery. To learn more, go to www.ZenCatGallery.com. Victoria A. Vetere, PhD, HC www.EnlightenedLifeCoaching.com [e-mail] 614.885.3899

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Balboa Press rev. date: 7/15/2015

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Contents

Introduction

PART 1   Work

Failing at Success

Passion, Purpose and Gratitude at Work

Procrastination As Wisdom

Time Management As Oxymoron

PART 2   Relationships

Searching For Intimacy

Dating With Wisdom

The Nature of Intimacy (& a Few Words on Commitment)

Giving Without Losing Yourself

The Law of Attraction in Relationships

Creating Healthy Relationships

Growing Our Relationships

The Deeper Aspects of Love

PART 3   Health

Healing As Prayer

Holistic Living

Smart Heart

Can The War Against Disease Ever Be Won?

PART 4   Consciousness

Connecting the Dots

Conscious Living

Life Cycles

Living Inside Out

Awakenings

Piercing Illusions

PART 5   Spirituality

Giving & Receiving

Spiritual Intimacy

The Law of Intention & Desire

The Law of Detachment

Where Are The Miracles?

PART 6   Other Tantalizing Topics

Transmuting Competing and Comparing

Trusting Intuition

A Holistic Approach to Living With Joy

What’s The Score?

Ever Changing

Finding Peace in Your World

Living Beyond The Road Most Traveled

Bibliography

Introduction

This book is a collection of writings covering the five key areas of life -— work, relationships, health, consciousness, and spirituality. And if that doesn’t quite cover it all, there is a section which includes topics like joy, change, competition, intuition, and peace.

You will notice that there are beautiful photographs to illustrate each writing. This is because a picture truly is worth a thousand words.

You will also notice that the chapters are not numbered. That is because I invite you to address this book the way you might engage a delectable tray of colorful hors d’oeuvres. Read only those that look juicy at the moment.

This book would best reside on your coffee table, breakfast table, night stand, patio or porch table. If you are a professional with a waiting room, several copies would do well on tables there for the benefit of your clients. (This will make your work with them a lot easier.)

To those seasoned in the concepts of broader perspective, energy healing, and quantum science, this book will be your Enlightenment training coach. It will inspire and remind you to actually live the principles you have spent years studying.

And for your friends and family members whose eyes glaze over when you speak on these topics, this book will serve as a pleasant primer. They will see the amazing practicality in all that energy gibberish you have been babbling about all these years. In fact, do yourself a favor and give many copies as gifts. There is no better gift than that of Enlightenment!

These writings have evolved over six plus years, and were inspired by my clients and friends who wanted to know why life was not working so well for them, and how to make it work better. This is why it may well feel as though I am actually speaking directly with you as you read these writings. This book also reflects my own evolution through times of joy and discovery, as well as through times of challenge and loss. (Please note that any inconsistencies in style, format, etc. reflect an effort to maintain the flavor or the original writing. Also proving that "You can’t step in the same river twice!)

I hope to teach, inspire, activate, and instigate Enlightenment in your everyday life. And as a bonus to all my readers I am including an exclusive web course entitled, How Life Really Works: Energy Science 101. Here is the link -— http://www.enlightenedlifecoaching.com/EnergyScience101. I hope that you enjoy both the information and the fun practice exercises!

I sincerely hope that something somewhere in this book makes your life just a bit lighter. And I hope that you will share this book with others. Thank you for sharing your time with me.

Work

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. ….And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth….

– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Failing at Success

How do you define success? Traditionally success meant doing all the right things, like knowing the right people, going to the right schools, being from the right families, getting the right jobs, etc. This is the DO-HAVE-BE model. Do the right things, and you will have lots of stuff, and be happy. How’s that working for you? For most, it isn’t. This is where the confusion and frustration sets in. If we did it right and we’re still not happy, did we fail at success? Or is success itself and the ladder it rests on, somehow flawed?

Recently I saw a video of a talk given by an East Indian spiritual teacher who was discussing The Shift. He referred to popular fears about earthly demise. He explained that those cultures which are based upon thinking and clutching will experience great depression and that those which are based upon Being will experience bliss and enlightenment. That is, cultures that live as BE-DO-HAVE will enjoy where we are headed. (BE authentic, Do from your Being, and Have abundance in all ways.)

Author Gregg Braden has expressed a similar perspective. He explains that we are now experiencing a dimensional shift in consciousness, from the third to the fourth dimension. We have lived in third dimensional consciousness for 2,000 years. This dimension is marked by judgment (good vs. bad), by putting oneself before others, and by competition, lack consciousness, and technology. We are now beginning to experience the lower and middle fourth dimensional consciousness marked by holistic understanding, as well as greater care and compassion. He states that we are heading for the higher fourth dimension of consciousness reflecting intuition, unconditional love, less attachment, more appreciation, and rewards to heart-centered people rather than money to the ambitious. So we are really taking a dimension and a half leap in a very short span of time. The current shift began in 2001. The years 2008 and 2012 were key hinge-point years. By 2020 the world will be a very different place.

So is failing at success