Choosing Your Harmony: Embracing This Journey We Call Life

By Rebecca Shupe

Although Rebecca had completed the writing of this book in 2009, it laid dormant until early 2015. It was then she was fully engaged in a program designed to bring the conscious self into harmony with the higher self. While participating in this program, so many of the concepts she had written about years prior were re-introduced. And so, she felt the push to share her experience.

The process of writing this book had served as such a healing framework in her own life, she recognized she had gone through another part of her Journey where the concepts once again aided in bringing more purpose, clarity and harmony to life. Isnt this what we all strive for?

Rebecca shares it now in hopes of empowering others to recognize they have the choice and free will to live the life they want, versus the life in which they feel resorted to living. For it is in seemingly small moments, where we can intentionally and deliberately create the life we choose and live in harmony with our souls purpose and desires.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Oct 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504365192

Rebecca Shupe

Rebecca Shupe grew up in rural Wisconsin, graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, earning her Bachelor of Science degree. Rebecca always knew that she wanted to help people, and telling others about her own personal trials and tribulations seemed like the best way to be authentic and give real world examples of how to allow our true inner light to shine forth. She’s worked in numerous industries including wireless, executive recruiting, direct sales and law enforcement. These provided her exposure to people of many walks of life, but none as impactful as spending more than five and a half years as a 911 dispatcher. Rebecca has a desire to help empower others to take control of their own journeys and serve as an example of how to break through limiting belief patterns and make choices based on intention. She enjoys time with her two children as well as hiking and reading. She currently works at an Equestrian Center in Idaho, where she gets to live out another passion of assisting participants in Equine Therapy programs and activities.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 10/24/2016

CONTENTS

Foreword: Johnna Schuck Johnson

Introduction: Choosing Your Truth

Chapter 1:   Giving Yourself Permission

Chapter 2:   Rising Above The Fog

Chapter 3:   Breaking Free Of The Ego

Chapter 4:   Removing The Mask

Chapter 5:   Learning To Take Ownership

Chapter 6:   Awakening To Your True Potential

Chapter 7:   Aligning With Your Truth

Chapter 8:   Harnessing The Law Of Attraction

Chapter 9:   Respecting The Power Of Now

Chapter 10:   Discovering Your True Dreams

Chapter 11:   Bridging The Now And Your Dreams Through Belief

Chapter 12:   Reclaiming Your Power

Chapter 13:   Transcending Survival To Prosperity

Chapter 14:   Focusing On Gratitude

Chapter 15:   Living Out Loud: Life According To You

Chapter 16:   Paying It Forward

Foreword

JOHNNA SCHUCK JOHNSON

I was blessed to have met Rebecca during an event I was facilitating. From the moment she walked in the door, she had something special about her: Her energy. Her authenticity. Her humility. Her spirit. Everything about her radiated freshness. She is clearly committed to ongoing personal and professional development and most importantly, I’ve seen her first hand apply the same principles she invites you to embrace in her new book.

The information presented in "Choosing Your Harmony: Embracing This Journey We call Life can help you with some of life’s most perplexing questions. Questions like What is my purpose? Who am I? How do I move on from a devastating experience? Will I ever reach my dreams? Why is this happening to me?

We rarely take the time to listen to our intuitive selves, where all of these answers present themselves. Rebecca takes you on a journey of self-discovery and teaches you how to quiet your soul, embrace your authenticity and create the lives you are destined for.

I encourage you all to treat this gemstone of a book as a workbook. Don’t just read it; it’s simply too valuable for that. Work it. Do it. Be one with the challenges Rebecca suggests. If you do, you will open up new doors along your journey! Enjoy every step!

Johnna Schuck Johnson

TV Talkshow Host, Author and Speaker

www.JohnnaJohnson.com

Introduction

CHOOSING YOUR TRUTH

As I sit at my desk to start the physical writing of this manuscript, I reflect on all that has brought me to this moment. I invite you to do the same as you begin reading. I am humbled by the experiences I have had thus far in this lifetime, yet it is these experiences that have led me right here, right now. NOW is the only time we ever have and it is up to you to choose with intention what your truth and real desires are.

When I look back at the moment I decided to write this book, it was apparent to me the title I selected would be almost as important as the content itself. All of the lessons and stories to be shared needed one umbrella to fit under. And, although the following chapters are enclosed in the finite space of a book, the challenge is to apply what works for you and allow it to permeate your daily life-not just during the reading of this work.

I selected Choosing Your Harmony because everything in life is just that-a Choice. From the most impacting of decisions to what you are going to have for dinner this evening. Life is a continuous succession of choices. Harmony is not something you need to seek outside of yourself. It is the action and intention of going within that assists you in breaking through limiting belief patterns and re-discovering what resonates for you. The challenge we face is making sure our Choices are in alignment with our Harmony. No one else can create it for you or take it away. Isn’t that refreshing to hear? You have control of your own destiny and what you make of it is completely up to you. There is no right or wrong so make it your intention to move forward in your life without the labels of good or bad or the judgments of positive or negative, for life is suppose to be joyful and full of love. When it isn’t, it’s up to us to use our built in guidance system to make some choices in Harmony with our true inner self and embrace all that we experience-for in every moment there is a choice available to us.

My intention in writing this book is to gently guide you through the process of Choosing your Harmony. It is a simple process but not always easy. It’s going to involve some surrendering, soul searching and most definitely some dreaming! In some cases it may be merely remembering what your dreams once were and reactivating them with intention. It’s my hope that by the conclusion of your reading, you are able to see what a gift all of the experiences in your life have been thus far and in turn Choose your upcoming experiences with intention, responsibility, joy and most of all, Harmony. Embrace each moment for all of these moments added up are the summation of our life’s journey. On that note, let’s jump in and grow together!

Chapter 1

GIVING YOURSELF PERMISSION

So maybe you are reading this book at this moment in time because you have just closed the doors to your business. Maybe you are one of the thousands who have just lost your home to foreclosure. Maybe you are at a point deciding whether or not to stay in a relationship. For some, this point in time may involve a wide variety of experiences that you wish never had entered into your physical reality. Whatever your experience is that led you here, I want you to give yourself permission to be right where you are.

What do I mean by that? Every