The Power and Light That Is You: A Guide to Enlightened Self Expression

Copyright © 2016 Linda Lee.

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Cover Art by Erin Pace-Molina

Illustration by Patricia Lynne

ISBN: 978-1-5043-5828-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-5830-9 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-5829-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016908738

Balboa Press rev. date: 07/13/2016

Contents

INTRODUCTION JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

A Word About Gardening

CHAPTER 1 REMEMBERING WHO YOU ARE!

A Word About Fear

CHAPTER 2 DO YOU KNOW YOUR TRUE INNER POWER?

A Word About Money

CHAPTER 3 THE POWER OF THOUGHT

A Word About Self-Affirmations

CHAPTER 4 THE POWER OF WORDS

A Word About Self-Acceptance

CHAPTER 5 THE POWER OF DISCERNMENT

A Word About Relationships

CHAPTER 6 HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

A Word About The Power Of Now

CHAPTER 7 CREATING ALL YOU DESIRE

Ignite Your Potential Now With These Easy Steps!

A Word About Meditation

CHAPTER 8 EXPANDING YOUR LIGHT ~ SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING

A Word About Miracles

CHAPTER 9 TRANSFORMATION

FINAL THOUGHTS

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my four grandchildren Andrew, Brayden, Ellianna and Natalee. With deep hope and faith that they will be the first generation to fully live their lives consciously with love and compassion and turn the tide of the old into the magnificent new by living the Universal Laws with love, fully and freely…..

The lotus flower represents fortune in Buddhism. It grows in muddy water rising and blooming above the murk to achieve enlightenment. The colors have different symbolism as well, such as white represents purity of mind and spirit; red is compassion and love, blue is common sense and uses wisdom and logic to create enlightenment; pink represents the history and legends of Buddha; purple speaks of spirituality and mysticism and gold represents all achievements of enlightenment.

Introduction

Journey of Discovery

What you seek is seeking you.

Rumi

I know a woman who as a child her life was more or less uneventful. She was raised in a large, religious family – and to this day, she is grateful for the spiritual foundation her family helped her create. She did face some challenges. Her family moved often, and it was too difficult for her to form relationships since she knew she would eventually leave. However, as she would learn later in life, everything has a reason for happening, and everything happened to teach her. She would learn that it all happened to prepare her for greater things in life than she could imagine.

There was also more death in her family than average; however when you have a large family the frequency of death increases with more family members, and it becomes a natural part of life. One death in particular had a profound effect: the family member, who was her paternal grandfather had cancer for a known period of less than six months. She wasn’t particularly close to her grandfather, but seeing how other family members handled this situation caused her to form many new thoughts, observations and belief patterns that ultimately set her on her life’s path.

Upon returning home from the funeral of her grandfather, she retired to a quiet room in darkness. With her eyes closed in contemplation soon three seemingly little questions came into her eleven-year-old mind:

1) What caused this disease?

2) How could it have been prevented?

3) Why do these thoughts frighten me?

The third question arose because these thoughts took her into a place where she had never been before. It was dark, uncharted territory and a bit scary. She asked herself, If it’s me thinking in this mind, why would I be afraid of my own thoughts and mind? She was literally bumping up against the boundary of her consciousness and experiencing expansion of her awareness!

This question would resonate with her as she grew older. As her life unfolded she found herself learning how to live simply, making food from scratch, understanding nutrition and working in the Alternative Health field where she was exposed to and learned a myriad of holistic ways to prevent disease and support health; including an understanding and love of herbs, supplements, whole nutritious foods, and different ways of thinking and living; she became educated in several different modalities of energy work and gained understanding as to why and how we create imbalances in our lives. Then she discovered deep inner-mind work where she realized most all dis-ease and imbalance begins with our thoughts whether physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.

As many people often experience, she found the journey wasn’t a straight or nicely paved road toward a destination. She found little support (if any) from others. There were those people along the way who physically, mentally and emotionally did everything possible to break her spirit and bring her to her knees; and some turned their backs entirely, which would have allowed her to forget the truth of who she was if she had allowed it. It would have been easy for her to give up. As a matter of fact there were times she thought about giving up because that would have been much easier. Yet something kept moving her toward her purpose. What was it that drove her forward? Was it her natural curiosity, excitement, joy, deep interest, or ability to follow her inner guidance? Yes, it was all of those things and more.

Yes, this story is about me, Linda Lee. I have persevered because my calling is to serve, teach and guide others. I have strived to bring this work and myself out of the darkness and into the light. I have discovered my deep inner power in the process. I want to help others realize the power and light that is not only within me, it is in all of us. If I had given up, I would be living with regret, depression, unhappiness, blame, judgment and more. None of that is worth not living your life and realizing your truth, and it would have deteriorated the quality of my life.

There is something to say about getting older. When I turned 40 I realized it was time to get busy,