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My name is Annette Colby and Thanks So Much for visiting my NEW blog – Divine Self!
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This site is about living more fully.
The purpose of this blog is to share ideas about life, love, and how to tap into the potential of your true self. Divine Self! is a personal development blog that gives you regularly updated resources, articles, and ideas about how to have more joy, empowerment, success, and fulfillment in your life.
Posts on this blog will get you thinking about who you are, why you are here on Earth, and how to live more fully aligned with your true nature.
You can expect postings on:
- Conscious Awareness
- Book Reviews
- Empowered Self Leadership
- Personal Development
- Inspirational videos
- Great resources
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This site is about exploring life with a feeling of self-acceptance and love.
Few things define our lives more than the choices we make. We are happier and feel more fulfilled when we deepen our love of self and regain our power to choose. Without conscious choice, we fail to determine for ourselves the direction of our lives, and instead we end up resisting life, reacting to life, or living by force of habit. This blog is dedicated to awakening the power of self-love and personal choice. This means deciding what choices in your life really matter most to you, and then focusing your attention and energy on those choices. Stay present to your dreams and you will change the world.
This site is about living life with joy, purpose, and balance.
Overcoming personal challenges and finding our way deep into our own heart is often a long and difficult journey, involving much introspection and self-awareness. Cry as often as you need to cry, for tears are a powerful way to release pent up emotions and old energies. But also remember that laughter is the best medicine. Just like crying, laughter releases pent up emotions like anger, saddens, and despair, but it does so much more. Laughter helps you take life and yourself less seriously. It can help you view difficult situations as challenges and “opportunities” rather than threats. Laugher stimulates increased oxygenated blood flow to both sides of your brain allowing you to allow new creative solutions for old, stuck problems. And as an added bonus, laughter releases a set of happy chemicals (endorphins) from your brain cells.
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Live consciously, love deeply, and laugh often during your life journey.
Annette
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I’ve always loved your e-mails and always find something to consider and think about. Congrats and welcome to the blog-o-sphere! Look forward to reading the content!
(And proud to be your first commenter!)
I love opening my email and finding something from you…I am reading your two books very carefully, highlighting and re reading important passages. Having these emails from you have helps me keep my mind and spirit focused on my goal. I’m still trying to get clear on my compelling reason to lose weight….I think it really comes down to liberation from the life long struggle…I’m sick of feeling so heavy….heavy in mind and body. So thanks and please know you are making a difference in my life!
Hi Annette!
Your blog is great! I’m delighted to be able to post comments and give feedback.
To everyone reading…Annette’s personal coaching and books have changed my life! I am no longer a “prisoner” in my own body. My body and soul are lighter (I’ve lost more than 25 pounds) and I feel better than I’ve ever felt. Give yourself a lifetime gift and work with her! You won’t regret it!
Hi Annettte,
Thank you very much. It’s about a year I am in touch with your site. Your mails are constantly of great guidance to me.
I know you are the Discovered live spring of universal Power.
Your each white up is reflection of your genuine desire to help people to know their full potential.
Meanwhile it’s also necessary to make money and live in abundance. A very fine approach to Life. An onset of new mind set. Thanks.
To start I was non believer in God in as worshipped today’s format. Then landed up at The Oneness University, Vadeipalem, India.
It is run by Shri AmmaBhagwan. A man & wife. They have a son who is successful businessmen. Like you he too knew the Divine Powers within us. He was aware of them since his early childhood.
There in three day course, I learned what was the prime reason behind worshipping. There first time I learned how the guidance can be sought within. Since then I had been seeking within and getting many automatic guides /guidance’s/ events manifesting in my life.
This with hardly any hard efforts.
Among it, one was I desired to have a master from the Western world too who would appreciate the same truth.
Simply because if there is a truth than it will stand truth regardless of religion, cast, creed, skin color or location.
You were among the few western Masters who have manifested in my life.
I too had a desire to interact with you. Had a wish to express my gratitude to you. The wonderful service you are doing to the human beings around the Globe.
So by this blog that wish too got manifested.
Well for the month of April and May 2008 I could write over 70 of my wishes being materialized.
I give the credit and thanks for this to The Divine myself, The Holy AmmaBhagwan, The Master Annette Colby and many others. ….
Love for me love for All
OneManyAllOne
onemanyallone@yahoomail.co.in
I have spent a great deal of my adult life working on healing myself, With a lot of deep and hard work, my binge eating is pretty much over. Now I am working on accepting and loving my body as is. I know this is the way to become the best possible me and ultimately a leaner, more active, healthier and happier me.
Thanks Annette for staying with me all of these years with your newsletters that appear (usually when I need them most) and keep me present and focused.
“Cry when you need to cry”. This very phrase has helped me immensely because I’ve always smiled and laughed to hide my emotions. The past few days, I’ve been finally releasing my heartache due to my daughter having her second child on April 19th, 2008. Brooklynn Grace was stillborn and no medical explanation given or found. She was my first granddaughter and so wanted by my family.
Thank you, Annette, for giving me an outlet for my emotions.
Hi There,
Its nice to know that lot of people had fantastic results and changes in there life. Very good.
My father has been a real pain in my life. He had done lot of unjust to me. He deserves to be behind bars for what he has done to me. But I do not have that power to do that.
Now you guys say that we should have fine relation with our family. That’s not possible for me with this kind of father.
It would have not possible for you fellas too. Mind it. Don’t just lecture around with all that forgiveness bullshit.
I am suffering from depression and anxiety. Even i have to be on prescriptions and that is creating bad side effects.
I want justice. The truth should be revealed. The villains(my family) should be made to pay for their horrendous sins.
Forgive, forget, let go, accept, surrender are not coming from within.
Now will some one tell me If you truly know something about life and its mysteries as you claim to know, then support the truth.
Inspite of all the cruelty shown by my family members why do they want me to forgive and forget when it is not coming from within.
Why are we considered rejected pieces.
You say that if we are not having good relations with family then we wont have good life.
How the hell one can forgive these kind of Demon family.
Dont preach. If you know and you are wise/ powerfull than make it happen through me naturally.
Does any one have answers? Can anyone assist me? Give me justice? Remove the pain, The Hurt, The Anger from within effortlessly / naturally.
Specialy You,
Don’t start telling me buy this and buy that like some cheap roadside hawker.
Give me concrete solutions. May be I can be of use to you later. May be I will buy your stuff later.
can you help me to sort this out. Or may be some Divine being who is made to read this.
For communication I am leaving my email I D below. I will appreciate if I am guided with mail attachment of webcam video.
cell no. 098220 16909
Email ; goanpunjabi@yahoo.co.in
Dear Spiri,
Thank you for taking time to express yourself so eloquently and sharing your ideas and emotions. I understand from reading your words that a horrific injustice has been bestowed upon you by your farther and family. You have every right to feel enraged, unsatisfied, and immensely distrustful of life and people. My heart aches to imagine you enduring such cruelty from your family.
In response to your comments, I would say that I do not propose that you must have a fine relation with your family. Or that you should forgive anyone. And you’re right – you can have a good life without ever forming good relations with your family. It’s no one’s business to tell you how you must live your life. You have survived and you are still alive – so in my opinion you are already living a courageous, meaningful life.
I do suggest that we are all in an evolutionary journey of developing a fine relationship with ourselves. Which also means looking at the anger, hatred, and need for justice within. Of course, you want your family to pay for their horrendous sins. Who amongst us hasn’t felt an intense desire to hurt or even want to kill another for some wrong they have done onto us. Most of us don’t even have a reason as real as yours, and yet we still have carried around hatred and fear in hearts for many years, if not an entire lifetime.
As you look at your anger and hatred, you decide if you are fine carrying the ideas and energy that goes with the need to punish. If you are, then you continue along that same path. And your choices are valid.
I perceive that you are already engaged in a different sort of journey – one in which you are noticing that your need to have justice is getting in the way of you discovering who you are, or being who you are. The depression and anxiety that you speak of is a natural result of the new choices you are making for yourself. As you question whether a life without pain and anger is possible, the pain and anger within you rise up. It rises not to torture you with memories, but because you are making a new choice for yourself. The darkness and yuck is rising up as you decide to release it. Getting caught in depression is natural. Some speak of it as a dark night of the soul. I speak of it as a noticing that we are empty within from the love we are, yet we do not trust love. It’s more of a dark night of the human. It may not seem that way to your right now, but you are already freeing yourself from the energy of violence, anger, fear, and distrust.
You are not a rejected piece. I sense you, I feel you, and you are acknowledged. You exist.
As for your questions: Does any one have your answers? No, not really. You will discover your answers. The fact that you are reading higher conscious ideas and tapping into new energy means that you are already in your own process of deciding if it is possible, or even desirable, for you to remove your own pain, hurt, and anger.
I believe in you now and always.
Annette
Dr. Annette,
I bow down to you my Master.
The question by the pained fellow about justice and punishment to family put up on 10 Jun. You have replied on 11 jun.
What a compessionate heart Dear Annette you have. Your reply is brief and long enough. Beautiful.
No do this and do that advice. Just straight what is and what may be done. And nicely encouraging that Spiri is on upward evolution.
And in end “I believe in yu now and always.
Thank you very much for the reply to the Spiri.
OneManyAllOne
Dear OneManyAllOne,
Thank you for your lovely comments about our fellow angel Spiri who is on an journey of conscious evolution. As you share your heart to comment on his words, as you share your compassion to comment on my reply, we once again hold Spiri in refreshed love, acceptance, and acknowledgement at a time when he might most need to be held. Spiri is not alone and his efforts are not in vain.
I am not the master of any fellow human. But now a Master and Teacher of Consciousness.
I am deeply moved and honored that you continue to infuse the love that you are into the fabric of my world.
Annette
Dear Annette,
You said ” I am not master of any fellow human. But Master and teacher of Higher Conciousness” Absolutely correct.
Wonderful truth.
A true master Madam Annette please take my salutation and gratitude.
I am on a journey on the path of self inquiry. It is progressing very well. Stumbling and getting up and then walking. Sometimes getting bruised.
But your mails are of great value.
And I have found my Guru (Guide & Mentor) AmmaBhagwan. He too is phenomenal. Do search for sites of AmmaBhagwan on net.
Your mails are indeed of great vision in which ever subject you write on.
Though thousands of miles apart your and My Gurus vision and teachings are very similer at a core level.
By the way I know Sipri.
He is on pilgrimage for over past three months.
He is yet not satisfied and quite frustrated at times.
Is there anything we can directly do to clear his sorrows a little bit?
Or does he have to bear all this by himself?
Thanks.
Pramod,
Thank you again for sharing your Self with us! I too know the path of which you speak. Every day, I wander deeper into the infinite world of higher consciousness, self-awareness, and personal insight. And along the way, I show anyone interested how to fall in love with who they really are, how to trust their true feelings, and how to work with their mind, body, and spirit to create a new sense of purpose and passion.
Being a teacher of the new spiritual energy is the life I breathe, dream, and live. I understand intuitively, both personally and professionally, how to integrate personal divinity and humanity to become an enlightened creator of joyful life experiences.
Yet, as you have discovered, being an energy mover and a living example of new energy consciousness is often no easy task. I can relate to your words about stumbling, falling down, and having to pick yourself up once again. To live a conscious life is new and different, complex, often unsure, and certainly never boring. For me, living a truly huge life has meant learning how to leave old beliefs and outgrown habits behind in the dust, being willing to accept 100% personal responsibility for my own life, and gaining the ability to make self-loving decisions. Words could never describe the despair or exquisite ecstasy of walking this path of higher consciousness.
You ask if there is anything we can do to directly help your friend Sipri during his time of intense sorrow. I say “yes” there is much we can do.
First, as you witness Sipri in his despair, accept his journey. Move beyond your own initial reaction and look deeply into your own heart. Of course, you do not want him to hurt, but know that he is hurting much as a woman in labor is hurting. One could say he is giving birth to himself, allowing his spirit to emerge from beneath the energy of much torture and suffering that his family has bestowed upon him. And yet, his spirit is emerging even though it is a painful process.
Kahil Gibran wrote, “Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all that you are beyond the pain.” Sipri is already in his process of emergence of attempting to feel who he is beyond the pain.
Second, know that during his journey through suffering he may well move from feeling pain into suffering, feeling pity, shame, and perhaps even falling into depression because he “should” not be feeling so badly. Become the one person in his life that intensely sees the meaning, value, and worth of his pain. Help him separate pain from suffering. Let him know that, “when moving through hell, it is best not to stop.”
Next, become the person who can see the possibility of his triumphant emergence into the life of peace he so valiantly strives to feel. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, imagine your friend living an enlightened. Know with all certainty that he will find his way. Perhaps not today, not tomorrow, or perhaps not even in this lifetime. But know, deep within your soul that if he has gotten this far in his journey, he will gain the love and peace that he seeks. Until then, you be the person who creates the potential of freedom. Create that potential, breathe life into that potential, and offer it into the Universe. He will walk into that potential when he is able.
Thank you for allowing me to help create that potential of love and freedom for your friend Sipri. We all hold him in a place of honor, knowing that his own journey into freedom is done not just for himself, but to benefit all humanity.
Annette
Dear Madam Annette,
What a wonderful gift from you on thanksgiving day. (Well I do not know much about it except that you have to be grateful for what we have in our life. As it is not practiced in this part of world.) Thank you very much all the same.
I truly appreciate your deep insight into the understanding of Mr. Sipri’s present state.
Yes i shall listen to him to possible extent. I shall listen to him without asking him to do this or that.
In my mind I shall see him coming through all this suffering and leading a normal life. I shall imagine that with the heaps of experience of self suffering he will be the torch bearer for many who suffer due this or that.
Well i thought he is in very difficult situation and it’s very difficult for him to come out except for some Divine interception (Like my Guru AmmaBhagwan or Dr. Annette Colby).
However as you have guided I shall imagine him living enlightened life. ( That’s a great leap in my earlier thinking that he shall lead normal life)
Let me know myself, sure, he shall find his way trimphantly.
We all are grateful to you:
1. You replied immediately
2. You understood the scenario
3. You gave very positive insights
4. you asked me to do things which are easy and possible.
May you grow and know all that is there to know, and be happy all that much ever possible for a human, May your words and thoughts heal those in distress.
With warm regards and gratitude,
Pramod
Hi Dr. Annette,
Thank you very much for your prompt reply in regards to Pramod’s concern and Mr. One’s comments.
I never thought that somebody else would understand me so much.
Right now I just Thank you. I have taken a break from my pilgrimage and shall get back to you later at ease.
Thanks and regards,
Spiri.
You are welcome Spiri. Keep breathing – let go and allow.