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		<title>Reincarnation: Why would someone choose to come back to Earth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Pavlina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The 4th Dimension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coming back]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reincarnation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get a lot of variations on this question. &#8220;Why would I ever choose to come back to Earth? It&#8217;s horrible here and my life sucks. As soon as I get to the other side, I&#8217;m staying there!&#8221; I also get: &#8220;How can I prevent myself from being reincarnated? I&#8217;m so afraid of being sent... <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/05/reincarnation-why-would-someone-choose-to-come-back-to-earth/">Read On</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get a lot of variations on this question.  &#8220;Why would I ever choose to come back to Earth?  It&#8217;s horrible here and my life sucks.  As soon as I get to the other side, I&#8217;m staying there!&#8221;  </p>
<p>I also get:  &#8220;How can I prevent myself from being reincarnated?  I&#8217;m so afraid of being sent back here, only to suffer again like I&#8217;ve suffered in this life.  What do I have to do to earn a good life?&#8221;</p>
<p>In this article I&#8217;ll explain a little more about reincarnation, suffering, and the choices you have.</p>
<p>First, rest assured that no one is going to make you come back to Earth if you don&#8217;t want to.  It&#8217;s entirely your choice if you want to come back.  Now some of you are thinking, &#8220;Well good then, I&#8217;m never coming back!&#8221;  Don&#8217;t be so sure.  More on that in a minute.</p>
<p>Secondly, no one was sent here to suffer.  No one was sent here with some predetermined plan of suffering.  Bad things happen, things that hurt us, no doubt about it.  But suffering is a choice.  Suffering is the decision you make to view your life as horrible versus seeing what you have to be grateful for.  You can stop suffering at any time.  </p>
<p>Third, think of Earth as a playground or a park.  You came here to play.  Maybe you play on the slide, or sit on a swing, or play in the sand.  Maybe you interact with other kids, or maybe you play alone.  Maybe you play baseball in the park with a team, or maybe you just take a walk in the grass and climb a tree once in a while.  Sometimes you go to the playground and have fun!  And sometimes you go to the park and are attacked by bees or bullies.  Sometimes you enjoy the park, and sometimes you come home and say, &#8220;Rough day at the park.&#8221;  But then what happens?  You go back again.</p>
<p>No matter how horrible your day was at the park, you give it another shot.  Maybe next time you go to the park, you take a ball and invite other kids to play with you.  Maybe the next time you go to the park, you decide you&#8217;re going to take a walk instead of trying to get 100 kids together to build a sand castle with you.  The park offers so many different experiences, you&#8217;d be hard pressed to experience them all in one visit.</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re at the park and some kids kick sand at you and bury you up to your eyeballs.  You&#8217;re not having fun at all.  You go home and complain to your parents, &#8220;Hated the park.  Mean people at the park.  Never going back!&#8221;  Your parents smile kindly at you with empathy.  After a time, you get over it and decide to try the park again, and this time you have an amazing and wonderful time at the park.  You come home and tell your parents, &#8220;Today was awesome!  A bunch of us got together and decided to play baseball.  I loved it.  Had such a good time.  Can&#8217;t wait to go back!&#8221;  Your parents smile kindly at you.</p>
<p>Life is just a bunch of days at the park.  When you have a bad day, you vow never to go back.  When you have a good day you can&#8217;t wait to get back and play again.  But the park is just the playground.  You decide what experience you&#8217;re going to have there.</p>
<p>So before you decide you&#8217;re never coming back, realize that once you get &#8220;home&#8221; you&#8217;ll have a different perspective on life, and it may come as a complete surprise to you that you decide to go play again.  If you could realize now, while you are still here, that there are many ways to enjoy the park, you might find this life isn&#8217;t as bad as you think it is. </p>
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		<title>How Can You Be Sure of the Path?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Pavlina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask Erin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Career and Finances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[switching careers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the path]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my readers on Facebook asked me the following question last week: &#8220;When you know what you want to do, how do you move from knowledge to action? Even though the path feels totally right, how can you be sure?&#8221; As long as you are excited by the path, as long as the path... <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/05/how-can-you-be-sure-of-the-path/">Read On</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my readers on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/erinpavlina" target="_blank">Facebook</a> asked me the following question last week:  </p>
<p>&#8220;When you know what you want to do, how do you move from knowledge to action?  Even though the path feels totally right, how can you be sure?&#8221;</p>
<p>As long as you are excited by the path, as long as the path continues to pull you happily along, as long as you continue to make progress on the path, you can be sure that you are on the right path.</p>
<p>While there is no guarantee of success in any of life&#8217;s endeavors, excitement and that sense of it feeling totally right, are signs from your higher self and your spirit guides that the path is important, has merit, and will fulfill you.</p>
<p>When the path feels wrong, it means you&#8217;ve taken a misstep.  Stand still, take stock, and figure out how to get back on the path.  You may need to back up a step.  You&#8217;ll know you&#8217;ve rediscovered the path when the excitement builds up again.</p>
<p>If you can jump right to taking action on the new path, do so.  If you need to make preparations first, make preparations.  The path will wait for you.  It&#8217;s okay to make logical preparations, which can help ensure a smooth sail on the new path.</p>
<p>For example, if this new path involves a career change, you may need to make sure you&#8217;ve got enough education, finances, and skills in order to make the leap.  That&#8217;s alright.  Do what&#8217;s necessary to get walking on your new path.  If you can leave your current job right now and start a new one, do it.  If you can&#8217;t, don&#8217;t sweat the wait.  Use the time to build up momentum like a race car driver revving his engine at the starting line.  When the starting gun goes off, you&#8217;ll rocket out of the gate.</p>
<p>But you&#8217;re asking the right question.  Excitement is the best clue you can get.  No one can guarantee success, but your excitement is the gas in the tank.  Follow your bliss.</p>
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		<title>When Will It Happen?  Psychics and Predicting the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Pavlina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychic Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professional intuitive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychic predictions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my email just this past week, I received these three gems&#8230; &#8220;A psychic told me I would have a new job in 6 months, and I waited, but it didn&#8217;t happen. Was the psychic wrong?&#8221; &#8220;A psychic told me I would find my soul mate in 4 months but that didn&#8217;t happen. Does that... <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/04/when-will-it-happen-psychics-and-their-predictions/">Read On</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In my email just this past week, I received these three gems&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;A psychic told me I would have a new job in 6 months, and I waited, but it didn&#8217;t happen.  Was the psychic wrong?&#8221;  </p>
<p>&#8220;A psychic told me I would find my soul mate in 4 months but that didn&#8217;t happen.  Does that mean he&#8217;s gone forever and I&#8217;m doomed to be alone?&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;A psychic said my medical problem would clear up in 2 weeks but it actually got worse.  Why was she wrong?&#8221;</p>
<p>This is one of my pet peeves with many of the practicing intuitives out there.  They tell their clients exactly when something will happen, and when it doesn&#8217;t, the client is very disappointed, thinks the psychic was a fraud, or worse, they feel like they missed out on a chance to get something they really wanted.</p>
<p>I understand that as a client you want to know when you&#8217;re going to get what you desire.  But no psychic can reliably predict when things will happen because the future is not set in stone.  Because you have free will, every action you take will either bring you closer to or further from your desire, so how does a psychic know in advance what actions you will take with your free will?  Answer… he doesn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>So why do some psychics give you a time prediction then if nothing is set in stone? Some psychics think that in order to sound amazing and magical, they have to give specific dates.  Some psychics receive a date, but don&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s mercurial.  And some psychics will tell you what you want to hear so you&#8217;ll be happy with your reading.  Be wary.</p>
<p>When I <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/readings" target="_blank">read for my clients</a> and they ask me when something is going to happen, I sometimes get a time frame, like 6 months, but with the caveat that it&#8217;s only going to work out if the client does X, Y, or Z.  And even then, a client can make something happen faster, or can make something take longer, by their actions.</p>
<p>A much better question to ask is &#8220;How can I get X, Y or Z as quickly as possible?&#8221;  Then the guides can give advice about how to adjust your course, your thinking, or your actions in order to obtain what you desire in the easiest and shortest amount of time possible. </p>
<p>Does that make sense?</p>
<p>When I get a date, time frame, or an age at which my client is going to achieve or obtain something, I always let the client know that the time frame is based on their current trajectory and their current actions, and that they can affect that time frame with their actions and decisions.  So if you don&#8217;t like where you&#8217;re headed and how long it&#8217;s going to take you to get there, you can absolutely rev the engine and push the accelerator and get there sooner.  Likewise, you can stave off disaster with some foreknowledge of what&#8217;s coming on your path and how soon it&#8217;s going to impact you if you don&#8217;t make changes now.  That&#8217;s actually one of the best reasons to get a <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/readings">reading</a> with an intuitive.</p>
<p>Plus, accidents happen.  You may be on course to get something you&#8217;ve intended to get for a long time, but due to the free will actions of others, you may be knocked off course.  When that happens, you&#8217;re going to circle the airport of life and try landing again.  It&#8217;s not denied to you, just delayed.</p>
<p>When you get a reading from an ethical, responsible, professional intuitive, they will empower you to make your own decisions and obtain your own rewards.  They won&#8217;t rob you of your power by telling you something will or will not happen.  </p>
<p>Can you imagine how you would feel if you thought you were supposed to meet your future husband at Starbucks on April 2, 2014 at 3pm and you got stuck in traffic and couldn&#8217;t make it?  Would you stop looking for a mate?  And what happens if you meet a fantastic man 3 weeks before April 2, 2014?  Do you tell him to buzz off because he didn&#8217;t arrive on the right day?</p>
<p>Next time you have a reading, ask empowering questions.</p>
<p>Instead of: When will I get the job I really want?<br />
Ask:  What do I need to do now to ensure I&#8217;ll have a job I love within the next year?</p>
<p>Instead of:  When will I meet Mr. Right?<br />
Ask: What beliefs are currently preventing me from having the relationship I desire, and what beliefs can I adopt that would help me manifest a great relationship soon?</p>
<p>Instead of:  When am I going to die?<br />
Ask:  If I continue with my current way of eating, will it cause any significant health problems down the road?</p>
<p>Instead of:  When will I be able to hear my guides?<br />
Ask:  How can I adjust my methods so I can hear my guides more clearly and more often?</p>
<p>Be very wary of a psychic who tells you when you are going to have or achieve something.  She might be right, she might be wrong, but it&#8217;s not really for her to say.  She should guide you and give you options, not lock you on a road that&#8217;s all or nothing.  If you&#8217;re in a forest and you&#8217;re headed for a lake, I can tell you how soon you&#8217;ll reach the lake IF you stay on your current path, going at your current pace.  But along the way you might get distracted by the bear that&#8217;s headed in your direction, or you may veer off and climb that tree over there before getting to the lake.  </p>
<p>Basically, what I&#8217;m trying to say is to take time predictions with a grain of salt.  Use the information and the estimate to determine if you want to go faster towards the goal or put on the brakes entirely and head off in a new direction.  You are not locked onto one path.</p>
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		<title>In League with Satan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Pavlina</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychic Information]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I get emails from people who are very urgently trying to warn me that the work I&#8217;m doing comes from Satan, not God. They let me know that the spirit guides I *think* I&#8217;m speaking with are just demons or Satan in disguise. They quote a few Bible verses at me, they tell me... <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/04/in-league-with-satan/">Read On</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes I get emails from people who are very urgently trying to warn me that the work I&#8217;m doing comes from Satan, not God.  They let me know that the spirit guides I *think* I&#8217;m speaking with are just demons or Satan in disguise.  They quote a few Bible verses at me, they tell me to find Jesus, and they warn me that my soul is at stake.  Some even make death threats because their God has told them to smite the psychics and mediums.</p>
<p>When I first got these emails, years ago, it distressed me.  I wrote back to people to try to explain myself and why I felt I wasn&#8217;t going to Hell.  It didn&#8217;t really matter.  Most of the people used fake email addresses and didn&#8217;t want to get a response.  Those that did, would just come back with longer Bible passages and more evidence that I was in league with Satan.</p>
<p>I realized they were the ones with the problem, not me.</p>
<p>So I started sending back joke answers.  &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t work for Satan, he offers no health insurance and I hear he fires people all the time.&#8221;  Most people weren&#8217;t amused by my clever rejoinders. </p>
<p>Recently a guy wrote to me and was very worried about my soul.  I&#8217;m touched, honestly, that people want to make sure I&#8217;m going to Heaven.  He told me the voices I think I&#8217;m hearing are really satanic demons who are tricking me.  I wrote back to him and said, &#8220;So these demons that I&#8217;m communicating with, they want me to help suicidal people find a reason to live?  They want to help find missing people?  They want people to live these really happy lives, become encouraged, inspired, and motivated to do wonderful things on this planet?  Because that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;  </p>
<p>He was quiet for a while.  But he wrote back a few days later and said, &#8220;Oh, I didn&#8217;t realize that&#8217;s what you did with your abilities.  It does seem odd that Satan would want you to help so many people.  I&#8217;ll have to think about that.  Maybe he wants them to be happy now so he can hurt them more later.&#8221;  Yeah, maybe it&#8217;s a big old setup.  Never heard from that guy again.</p>
<p>Then a few days ago a woman emailed and told me she was cruising my site and was loving the articles because I talk a lot about compassion, helping others, oneness, love, and connection, and she really resonated with that.  But she was distressed because she couldn&#8217;t see any articles where I mentioned that Jesus was my Lord and Savior.  She wanted to make sure I knew that if I didn&#8217;t accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior that I was going to Hell.  </p>
<p>So I wrote back to her and told her I appreciated her words and her sincere desire to help me.  I let her know that God&#8217;s gift has allowed me to assist others, bring comfort, and help them be happier.  She responded, &#8220;But you still haven&#8217;t mentioned Jesus.&#8221;  I responded with, &#8220;So if I don&#8217;t expressly mention Jesus, then all this good work I&#8217;m doing to help others is going to land me in Hell?  Do you think God is angry that I&#8217;m using this gift to save people&#8217;s lives?  Should I stop?&#8221;</p>
<p>She said, &#8220;Unless you praise Jesus, you and your site are just satanic, and you will not be saved.  You clearly worship Satan and all those articles you&#8217;ve written and all those people you&#8217;ve helped were really helped by Satan.&#8221;</p>
<p>So I sent her one last email that said, &#8220;Well how do I know you&#8217;re not Satan disguising yourself as a Christian in order to get me to stop doing God&#8217;s work?&#8221;  I never heard back from her.</p>
<p>When you think about it, though, it makes a lot more sense that these folks who write to me are actually the demons working for Satan.  They are trying to stop me from helping others.  They&#8217;re trying to prevent me from bringing people out of dark places and into the light.  And they have even threatened to kill me in the name of their Lord.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I think that&#8217;s pretty dark stuff.  I wonder what Jesus would think.</p>
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		<title>How I Accidentally Killed One of the Greatest Companies on the Planet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Pavlina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career and Finances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[running y our own business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sabotage success]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story I&#8217;m about to tell you should be taken as a cautionary tale. When you start a business, you need to think it through, and imagine what you would do if you suddenly became as ridiculously successful as you claim you want to be. About a decade ago, I was running my online vegan... <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/03/how-i-accidentally-killed-one-of-the-greatest-companies-on-the-planet/">Read On</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The story I&#8217;m about to tell you should be taken as a cautionary tale.  When you start a business, you need to think it through, and imagine what you would do if you suddenly became as ridiculously successful as you claim you want to be.</p>
<p>About a decade ago, I was running my online vegan parenting magazine, <a href="http://www.vegfamily.com">Vegfamily.com</a>.  For the most part, I was just running a magazine, a source of information and connection for the vegan parenting community.  But one day, in an effort to increase revenue, I decided to start selling products of interest to my readers.  At the time I had 300,000 unique visitors per month coming to the site.  A nice big audience.</p>
<p>I happened upon a woman who was making vegan chocolates.  This was before the big companies were making vegan chocolates.  This woman, whose name escapes me now so let&#8217;s call her Barbara, was making peanut butter bon bons.  These were like Reeses Peanut Butter cups, but totally vegan.  </p>
<p>Barbara had just started her company, so she sent me some chocolates to sample so that I could write a review of her chocolates.  She had a basic website up, but no traffic.  When I received the chocolates, they were in a box and each one was wrapped individually in foil, but they would slosh around in the box because she didn&#8217;t have anything to use as separators.  Didn&#8217;t really matter, as they were individually wrapped.</p>
<p>I tasted one.  Oh. My. God.  Best vegan chocolates on the planet.  They were like little nuggets of heaven.  Peanut butter centers enrobed in sweet milky vegan chocolate.  I don&#8217;t know how she did it, but boy did she do it!  </p>
<p>I contacted her and told her not only would I write a positive review of her chocolates, but that I wanted to sell them to my audience.  She was elated!  </p>
<p>We discussed price.  She wanted $5 per box, and I think there were 20 pieces in a box.  Very reasonable wholesale amount.  I had planned to sell them for $10 per box.</p>
<p>She sent me a dozen boxes to get me started.  I wrote a review, put up a sales page for the chocolates, and within minutes of announcing them, I had orders for 30 boxes.  Wow.  Okay.</p>
<p>Barbara was beyond happy and sent me more boxes.  By the time those boxes got to me, I had pre-sold them all, and there were more orders coming in every day.</p>
<p>I raised the price of the chocolates to $20 a box and still the orders kept coming in.  People who had already received their boxes were raving about the chocolates and coming back to place another order.  Some people were ordering 5 boxes at a time to give out as gifts.</p>
<p>Barbara was excited, but it was taking her a long time to get the boxes to me because she was making the chocolates in small batches by hand.  She told me she was spending all day making chocolate.</p>
<p>The orders continued to come in.  They were selling so fast that we had a waiting list for the chocolates going.  I eventually raised the price to $30 per box and they STILL sold like hotcakes.</p>
<p>I worked with Barbara to find other ways of packaging them.  People wanted more than 20 in a box, so she got a bigger box and put 40 chocolates in them.  </p>
<p>Barbara never asked me for more money.  She determined that her time and ingredients were worth $5 per box.  But I told her she was selling herself short and started paying her $10 per box.  She had a hard time accepting that much money.  </p>
<p>That&#8217;s when I knew we were headed for trouble.  She couldn&#8217;t understand the value of her chocolates or her time. </p>
<p>Valentine&#8217;s Day was rolling around, and we had created a nice little Valentine box shaped like a heart and filled with these delicious bon bons.  People reserved their boxes a month in advance because they wanted to be sure they got one.</p>
<p>Barbara worked day and night to make enough chocolates.  I suggested she hire an assistant but she said she didn&#8217;t want to become an employer.  We had orders for more than 100 boxes of Valentine chocolates.  That was on top of the regular orders which were still coming in.  </p>
<p>We barely got our Valentine orders out the door.  That&#8217;s when Barbara emailed me and said, &#8220;Erin, I can&#8217;t do this anymore.  I&#8217;m done.  It&#8217;s too much.  I&#8217;m shutting down the company.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Nooooo!&#8221; I wrote back.  &#8220;Nooooo!  You can&#8217;t.  These are the best vegan chocolates on the planet.  You&#8217;ve got a successful thriving business here, Barbara.  You just need some help.&#8221; </p>
<p>She replied, &#8220;No, Erin, I just can&#8217;t do it anymore.  I don&#8217;t want to be a big business.  I don&#8217;t know how to run a big business.  I don&#8217;t know how to manufacture or hire help or anything like that.  I just want it to be over.&#8221;</p>
<p>I tried to convince her to sell her recipe to someone.  We had enough evidence of success that I was sure someone else would have loved to run with it.  But Barbara declined that too.</p>
<p>Making the announcement on my website that the Vegan Peanut Butter Bon Bons were no more was one of the hardest things I&#8217;ve ever done.  People were devastated.   The era of the bon bons was over.  People had to go back to dipping their bitter dark chocolate bars in natural peanut butter to get their fix.  It was a sad time for the vegan community.</p>
<p>It taught us all a big lesson though.  Barbara had never considered what she would do if her business became a huge success.  If she had thought it through, she might have realized that success would mean more orders and the need to hire help.  If she didn&#8217;t want to be a business owner, she probably shouldn&#8217;t have started this particular business.  The scale of it could only create more work and burden on her.</p>
<p>Think about YOUR business.  If it suddenly exploded with 10 or 100 times the volume you have now, would you be ready for that level of success?  Do you have a plan in place to handle an increase in sales or business?  Do you know what you would do if Oprah suddenly plugged your business and tons of people wanted what you&#8217;re offering?  </p>
<p>Just give it some thought.</p>
<p>I doubt Barbara ever made a piece of chocolate again.  I think she was extremely traumatized by the experience.  I&#8217;m sorry I wasn&#8217;t able to do more for her, but I didn&#8217;t know how to help her at the time.</p>
<p>Eventually other vegan chocolate companies came to market with fantastic products they manufacture en masse.  But none of us who had them will ever forget those pioneering vegan peanut butter bon bons and the frenzy with which we had to have them.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Pavlina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a typical Friday morning in the Pavlina household. My 13 year old daughter, Emily, was running around the house trying to find her phone. &#8220;Mom, where&#8217;s my phone?!?!&#8221; &#8220;Where did you last see it?&#8221; I replied. It was my standard response to &#8220;Mom, where&#8217;s my …?&#8221; questions. &#8220;In my boot,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Check... <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/03/intuition-and-lost-items/">Read On</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.erinpavlina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/lost-items.jpg" alt="lost-items" width="263" height="187" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3113" />It was a typical Friday morning in the Pavlina household.  My 13 year old daughter, Emily, was running around the house trying to find her phone.  &#8220;Mom, where&#8217;s my phone?!?!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Where did you last see it?&#8221;  I replied.  It was my standard response to &#8220;Mom, where&#8217;s my …?&#8221; questions.</p>
<p>&#8220;In my boot,&#8221;  she said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Check there,&#8221; I said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ugh, Mom, don&#8217;t you think I already checked there?  It&#8217;s not there.  I don&#8217;t know where it is.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You may have to go to school without it,&#8221; I suggested.  You&#8217;d think I told her she&#8217;d have to go to school wearing a bag over her head.</p>
<p>&#8220;Are you crazy?!?!  I need my phone, help me find it, please!&#8221;</p>
<p>I sighed and we began tearing the house up looking for the phone.  We tried calling her phone but it was on silent and nary a vibration nor a sound did we hear.</p>
<p>After 20 minutes of searching every single place we could logically think of, I told her we&#8217;d be late if we didn&#8217;t leave immediately.  Then she said, &#8220;Ask my guides where my phone is.  They must know where it is because they watch me all the time right?&#8221; </p>
<p>So I did what I probably should have done from the beginning.  I stopping thinking and tuned in instead.</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;ve written about <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2009/06/how-to-find-lost-items-using-psychic-abilities/" target="_blank">how to find lost items using psychic abilities</a> before.  I wrote that article because the number of emails I get from people asking me to find their lost diamond engagement rings, iPods, or their lost retainers is ridiculously high.  You CAN find lost items yourself using psychic abilities, and that article tells you how to do it.  </p>
<p>But now, on this chilly Friday morning, I would have to see if it worked for me too.</p>
<p>I tuned in.  I erased the mental map I had of my house and threw logic out the door.  I said to the ether, &#8220;Where is her phone?&#8221; </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll try to describe what happened next but it&#8217;s difficult if you&#8217;re not an oft-dwelling denizen of my mind.  A mental map of my house appeared, not with walls, just areas.  And every area except one became grey, cold and elusive.  One area of the house became hot, sharp, and target-locked.  My office.</p>
<p>So I said without hesitation, &#8220;It&#8217;s in the office.&#8221;  </p>
<p>She seemed doubtful because we had checked there several times.  I was doubtful myself, but that&#8217;s what I felt, what I knew, what I saw.</p>
<p>She disappeared into the office and after 10 seconds I heard her proclaim, &#8220;I found it!!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Oh my gosh, where was it?&#8221; I asked.</p>
<p>She said, &#8220;Under a bunch of black cables and wires.  I couldn&#8217;t see it before.&#8221;</p>
<p>The darn phone&#8217;s developed camouflage capabilities!   I could almost hear the phone say, &#8220;Darnit, they found me.  Please don&#8217;t make me go back into that child&#8217;s boot.  For the love of all that&#8217;s holy…&#8221;</p>
<p>She came bouncing down the stairs, finally ready to go to school.  And she said, &#8220;Wow, you really ARE psychic.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes indeed.  But you know what?  This will work for you too.</p>
<p>Sometimes logic isn&#8217;t enough.  Using logic, we tried retracing her steps, but her memory broke down at some point and she couldn&#8217;t remember where she had it last.</p>
<p>But intuition sees all, it&#8217;s just a matter of knowing how to tune in, not letting fear and doubt get into the mix, and avoiding logic even when it seems illogical to do so.</p>
<p>Intuition can find your lost items.  We used intuition to <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2010/07/intuition-saves-lives/" target="_blank">find our missing turtle</a> at one point as well.  Don&#8217;t doubt the power of receiving information from the ether, your guides, the universe.  It&#8217;s right there for you when you need it.  </p>
<p>Does it work every time?  It probably won&#8217;t.  But the more you practice with it, the more success you&#8217;re going to have. </p>
<p>The next time you&#8217;re looking for something you&#8217;ve lost, try using your intuition to find it.  It can&#8217;t hurt right?  And it can save you a ton of grief, especially if you own a teenager and she&#8217;s without her blessed phone. <img src='http://www.erinpavlina.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Ultimate You Mindfest is Returning!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Pavlina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year Learning Strategies hosted a free online event called the Ultimate You Mindfest. It was a weeklong series of short, punchy audio coaching sessions to condition your mind for positive thinking, success, and action orientation. That Mindfest was extremely popular with my readers, and I received many appreciative emails about it afterwards. As a... <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/03/ultimate-you-mindfest-is-returning/">Read On</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last year Learning Strategies hosted a free online event called the <a href="http://www.on2url.com/app/adtrack.asp?MerchantID=184579&#038;AdID=626366">Ultimate You Mindfest</a>. It was a weeklong series of short, punchy audio coaching sessions to condition your mind for positive thinking, success, and action orientation. That Mindfest was extremely popular with my readers, and I received many appreciative emails about it afterwards. As a promotional event, the Mindfest also did so well for the people running it that they&#8217;ve decided to run it again this year. They&#8217;re not just rerunning last year&#8217;s recordings though &#8212; this year&#8217;s content is all new.</p>
<p>The Mindfest is completely free. If you like the program, you have the option to buy the recordings afterwards. But you could also listen to the whole thing for free when it broadcasts if you like, and you have plenty of leeway for that &#8212; you don&#8217;t have to listen at a set time of day, just within a particular day&#8217;s window.</p>
<p>The Mindfest is once again hosted by Paul Scheele, who co-founded Learning Strategies 32 years ago. Paul is an acclaimed expert of human performance, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), accelerated learning, and preconscious processing. Paul is very passionate about understanding how the mind works and helping people improve their lives. And he&#8217;s very good at teaching what he knows.</p>
<p>Over the course of 6 days, Paul will share the following lessons: </p>
<p><strong>Day 1 – Make More Money:</strong> Clear away blocks to having plenty of money </p>
<p><strong>Day 2 – Sharpen Your Memory:</strong> Overcome uncertainty and forgetfulness </p>
<p><strong>Day 3 – Attract What You Want:</strong> Make the Law of Attraction work for your success </p>
<p><strong>Day 4 – Be Free of Anxiety:</strong> Be fearless, strong, and successful </p>
<p><strong>Day 5 – Kick-up Your Instincts:</strong> Use your intuition to make better decisions </p>
<p><strong>Day 6 – Improve Your Health:</strong> Reduce stress and avoid illness </p>
<p><strong>Bonus &#8211; Get to Your Ideal Weight:</strong> Use your inner mind to help you lose extra pounds</p>
<p>For each day of the course, you actually get two programs &#8212; one lesson from Paul and one Paraliminal to listen to.</p>
<p>The Mindfest is free, so it won&#8217;t cost you anything. You&#8217;ll have two new programs each day that you can stream from your computer, tablet, or phone. If you miss a day, that&#8217;s no problem since each day of the Mindfest is designed to stand on its own. Feel free to listen to whichever sessions most interest you if you&#8217;re short on time.</p>
<p>The Mindfest officially begins on Monday, March 18th. I suggest that you register for it now (which takes about 2 seconds). That way you&#8217;ll get a reminder email when the Mindfest is about to begin. There&#8217;s also a contest with some nice prizes you could win.</p>
<p>Visit the <a href="http://www.on2url.com/app/adtrack.asp?MerchantID=184579&#038;AdID=626366">Ultimate You Mindfest</a> website to get started. I&#8217;m signed up for it myself.</p>
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		<title>Why Would Someone Choose a Hard Life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Pavlina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got an email from a guy who was very upset with me. He had read my article about how we choose our own parents and life circumstances and had quite the bee buzzing in his bonnet. He very angrily said, &#8220;Why would someone choose to be poor? Why would someone choose to be disabled?... <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/02/why-would-someone-choose-a-hard-life/">Read On</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img alt="" src="http://www.erinpavlina.com/images/climbing.jpg" width="250" height="222" align="left" border="0" />I got an email from a guy who was very upset with me. He had read my article about how we choose our own parents and life circumstances and had quite the bee buzzing in his bonnet. He very angrily said, &#8220;Why would someone choose to be poor? Why would someone choose to be disabled? If it is really a choice, why wouldn&#8217;t everyone choose to have rich parents and live a life of luxury?&#8221;</p>
<p>I responded back to him and we went back and forth a bit and I decided that other people probably have the same question, so I&#8217;m going to share.</p>
<p>First of all, it is true that before you incarnate <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2007/05/picking-our-parents-and-our-life-circumstances/" target="_blank">you select your parents</a>. But before that happens, you figure out what your intention is for this life. You decide what you want to experience. And then you go about finding a family that will give you the best chance of experiencing what you want to experience.</p>
<p>Yes, sometimes the family happens to be poor. And yes, sometimes the family happens to be rich. Usually that is not a deciding factor for a soul before it incarnates because while you are in the ether you remember, realize and know that money is man-made and is simply a by-product of an earthly incarnation.</p>
<p>More important than money, however, is whether or not your chosen family will be able to help you accomplish your intention.</p>
<p>When I told him this, he came back with, &#8220;But life is so hard for some. Who would ever choose to have a hard life?&#8221;</p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t marathon runners simply get in a car and drive to the finish line? Because they like to run, they want the challenge, they want to see if they can run a marathon.</p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t hikers just get in a helicopter and soar to the top of the mountain in minutes instead of climbing for hours or even days to get to the top? Because hikers want to hike, they enjoy the journey, the struggle, the challenge.</p>
<p>Imagine if you were playing a video game. You make your character and hit &#8220;start&#8221; and when you pop into the town as your character someone comes along and says, &#8220;Here is 1 billion gold pieces, here is a level 80 sword, and here is an infinite supply of food and healing potions. Have fun!&#8221; Boring! You want to go questing. You want to see what your character is capable of.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that some people have it very rough on this earth. Maybe they&#8217;re here to test humanity&#8217;s compassion. Maybe they&#8217;re here because they love a challenge. Maybe they&#8217;re here to overcome adversity, rise to the top, and make things better for those back at home.</p>
<p>As for disabled folks… some of them know they will be disabled before they incarnate and some don&#8217;t. Remember that free will trumps everything once you incarnate. By your actions or the actions of others, your beautiful, easy, rich life can become hell, and your poor, miserable existence can become heavenly.</p>
<p>The secret is your attitude. If you read my last article, <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/02/a-good-cup-of-soup/" target="_blank">A Good Cup of Soup</a>, you&#8217;ll see that a very financially poor man is one of the wealthiest people I&#8217;ve ever met. And we all know about rich people who kill themselves because they don&#8217;t carry internal happiness.</p>
<p>Ultimately, your life circumstances are defined by your attitude. No matter what circumstances you&#8217;re in when you arrive, you can change them completely if you desire it strongly enough. There are thousands of examples of people who have.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if the guy who emailed me will accept what I&#8217;ve told him, but that&#8217;s his choice too. No matter where you think you are, you can think your way out of your situation. It&#8217;s all about attitude.</p>
<p>And when you cross over and go back to the ether, your compadres will clap you on the back and say, &#8220;Well done! I thought you were a goner there a few times, but you pulled through. You were magnificent!&#8221;</p>
<p>And you&#8217;ll smile, knowing that although the journey was hard, it tested you and you prevailed. And you&#8217;ll say, &#8220;Damn straight! Now when can I make another character and go back and play?&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Pavlina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I met a man who completely blew my mind. He was an African American male in his 70&#8242;s who had lost everything he owned in a fire just 3 hours earlier. Most of the time when I&#8217;m assisting victims of fire, they are scared, sad, anxious, and devastated. But not... <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/02/a-good-cup-of-soup/">Read On</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of weeks ago I met a man who completely blew my mind.  He was an African American male in his 70&#8242;s who had lost everything he owned in a fire just 3 hours earlier.  Most of the time when I&#8217;m assisting victims of fire, they are scared, sad, anxious, and devastated.  But not this man.  I was immediately taken by his energy.  He was upbeat and positive.</p>
<p>As I began asking him questions, it came to light that he had an annual income of less than $10,000, he lived alone, and walked with a cane.  I could also see that he was happy.  I&#8217;m talking about that internal happiness that few achieve.  He was completely at peace and content.</p>
<p>As we exchanged dialogue, one of the questions I had to ask him was how he planned to recover from his loss.  He said, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t lost anything.  You see, young lady, while it may look like all my possessions burned up in the fire, I haven&#8217;t lost anything of real value.  As long as I am alive, I am grateful.  And that gratitude can never burn up in a fire.  That can never be taken away from me.&#8221;</p>
<p>I was speechless for a moment and then said, &#8220;That&#8217;s an amazing attitude, sir.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said, &#8220;I can see from your eyes that you are kind, and I can tell from your energy that you sincerely care about me, and I&#8217;m grateful.  I carry gratitude in my heart.  It&#8217;s the most valuable thing I own.  I&#8217;ll carry it until the day I die.  Every day on this earth is a blessing, and every moment I live is a pleasure.&#8221;</p>
<p>We continued on with the interview.  He was the most positive, carefree, happy person I&#8217;ve sat in front of in a long time.  Finally near the end of the interview I said, &#8220;I can tell  you have this inner peace and you radiate joy and contentment.  Have you always been this way?&#8221;</p>
<p>He said, &#8220;Oh no, young lady.  I&#8217;ve been homeless, I&#8217;ve been addicted to drugs and alcohol.  I&#8217;ve even served time in prison.  But one day I was done living in the dark.  I invited the light of love and gratitude into my soul and it has never left me and it has never let me down.&#8221;</p>
<p>I said, &#8220;How did you do it?&#8221;</p>
<p>He leaned in and said, &#8220;It was like flipping a switch.  I just decided one day that going forward I was going to leave people alone, stop hurting myself, stop hurting others, and spread happiness and joy wherever God let me.  And I&#8217;ll tell you one of the secrets to being happy.&#8221;</p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t wait to hear it.</p>
<p>He said, &#8220;I stay away from people who are living in the dark.  If they are negative, mean, nasty, lack compassion, or are trying to hurt or control me, I just say goodbye.  You gotta be careful who you let into your energy.  Darkness of the heart is a contagious poison that can make your soul sick.  You stay away from toxic energy.&#8221;</p>
<p>I spent about 20 minutes talking to this man.  All he owned was his cane and his attitude, and it was more than enough for him.  Before I concluded the interview, I asked him if there was anything he needed.  </p>
<p>He said, &#8220;Well, all I really want right now is a good cup of soup.  Give me a good cup of soup and a heart full of gratitude and I&#8217;ll walk this world a happy man.&#8221;</p>
<p>When I left him, I felt so humbled and grateful myself.  By all of society&#8217;s standards this man was poor, but in reality, he&#8217;s one of the richest men on the planet.  To carry happiness in your heart, to be grateful when you have almost nothing, is wealth indeed.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do YOU want to know? About life, the universe, and everything? Is there a question you&#8217;ve always want to ask me? Do you want to know why we incarnate? How to transition to a more fulfilling career? How to meditate? How to talk to your loved ones on the other side? Now&#8217;s your chance... <a href="http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2013/02/join-erin-pavlina-live-online-march-9-2013/">Read On</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.erinpavlina.com/images/erin-pavlina-300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" border="0" align="left">What do YOU want to know?  About life, the universe, and everything?</p>
<p>Is there a question you&#8217;ve always want to ask me?</p>
<p>Do you want to know why we incarnate?  How to transition to a more fulfilling career?  How to meditate?  How to talk to your loved ones on the other side?</p>
<p>Now&#8217;s your chance to ask.</p>
<p>Join me live on March 9, 2013 at 9:00am Pacific time for an online event.  This will be an Ask Erin style Q &#038; A teleseminar.  By computer or phone, you will be able to ask questions and hear me answer dozens of questions for everyone.</p>
<p>Plus, as a bonus, I&#8217;ll randomly select one lucky registrant who will receive a free 15-minute reading with me.  You don&#8217;t have to be on the call to win, but you do have to be registered. </p>
<p>If you can&#8217;t make the call, no worries, all registrants will receive a recording of the call when it&#8217;s over.  But if you do attend, I just might answer your question!</p>
<p>Price is just $25 for this one hour event.</p>
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