Dear Make A Difference Subscriber,

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Here’s to Making A Difference in Someone’s Life Today …

Founder of Heart Productions & Publishing

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Actually, any day is a great day to listen to an MP3 audio clip from a live training I’ve performed at a Fortune 500 Company called: Connecting with Colors!

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When I was on the road speaking daily in the late 90’s, a very large percentage of the people coming for my seminars entered the room exhausted from all the nagging, fussing, arguing and fighting that can go on in everyday relationships and communication struggles.

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Heart Productions & Publishing, PO Box 56, Newton Jct., NH 03859

Hi there,

I have a question for you and am really interested to see what an outsider to my situation thinks.

I have a daughter, 21 years old, a son-in-law 23 years old, and two beautiful grandchildren ages 2 and 9 months. They had to move out of their home that they were renting due to the owner wanting to sell it. The owner lived out of state. They were unable to get another place to rent, we live in a small mountain town. So my daughter and family goes to a hotel and stays for about a week, I could not bare the thought of them spending money on a hotel when I had over enough room for them to stay and the children already had beds here. So they moved in on a temp basis until housing was found. I had dealt with their drinking (did not realize how much drinking they did). My daughter is working 3 jobs while hubby is not working at all. Children in daycare Mon-Friday. My heartstrings are tugged, my grandchildren are just adorable.

Last Friday, my son-in-law decides to climb thru a window at the front of the house instead of knocking on the door in the front (it was after midnight and I had locked all the doors, rule is knock on front door so I hear you). I confront him about this and he apologized and the next minute he jumped me and swung at me 3 times, last time hit me knocking a board I picked up for protection. My daughter immediately turned on me having seen what her husband did. How can one be compassionate? How is it possible to be? Unfortunately my grandchildren left with their parents. I may never see them again.

Yes, her husband apologized thru a voicemail. But abuse is evident and I won’t have any part of it.

But you speak of compassion and I tried to be compassionate while they were here and took probably more than I should have, but I wanted to look past the fear they had and help them in any way that I could. Have I done too much? You speak so much of compassion and making a difference….what you don’t say is what happens if something wrong goes on from it.

May I please have your opinion?

Thank you, Rebecca

ANSWER:

Dearest Rebecca,

First, let me commend you for asking for more knowledge and understanding …

Second, it’s clear to me how much you love your daughter and your grandchildren.

Third, there’s a part of you that knows, deep inside, that you are somehow, inadvertently, aggravating the situation more than you are helping it. It’s clear from your letter that you really do want to be able to heal this situation.

It is confusing to many people about how to be compassionate AND have boundaries and rules especially once things have escalated.

Understand, compassion is innate - AND - we have all been taught more about fear, judgment and condemnation, right and wrong, good and bad, than we have been encouraged and/or trained to remain connected to the vibrational power of compassion.

If you re-read your email to me from this higher understanding, I am certain that you will be able to see the places where your real attitude about this young man comes through.

You have - we all have - “learned” underlying attitudinal vibes - fear, judgment, resentment, shame - which are inadvertently coming “at” this young man about everything he is doing wrong, in your opinion.

It appears that you are reacting from fear, and he is engulfed in shame.

It’s circular in nature - no one knows where it began - you, him - him, you - doesn’t matter. Somehow, somewhere, it became circular in your relationship, and it is this cycle of an unspoken energy field - of fear and of shame - that set the stage for violence.

We all have a learned reaction to unwanted behavior. It’s called a Catch-22 which simply put is: “push against” what you don’t want, and then get more of what you don’t want!

There is so much I want to explain in this one weekly newsletter… but I’m holding myself in check because I’ve written a very comprehensive book called, Attitude Alignment: The Art of Getting What You Want! …which is all about how to heal affrontive, hurtful and unwanted behaviors in all forms. www.AttitudeAlignment.com

For right now, simply understand that the road back to the power of innate compassion is a learning activity and a process of repeated application. It’s all about taking in new knowledge to understand more about what is really going on here, and what you can be thinking and doing differently to get wonderful new results with your son-in-law.

For the purpose of today’s newsletter, I feel it most relevant to draw your attention to an excerpt from my newest book, Make A Difference …with the Power of Compassion from pages 66-71.

If you’ve already read this, please read this again …slower and with “new” eyes.

To read the entire book for free go to: http://www.makeadifference.com/giftbook/BG01_detail.htm

Page 66 …
Compassion … the Universal language of mankind

For most people, the problem with being compassionate is our fear that, if we offer it, we’ll somehow be condoning and encouraging hurtful behavior. Yet, in a story like Teddy’s, we can see right away how a life can be changed for the better, with changes lasting the span of a lifetime.

The real power of compassion is choosing it in the midst of difficult situations involving behaviors that we find upsetting and entirely off-putting. How can one be expected to be compassionate in the midst of fear?

How indeed? And yet this is what this story is all about. While it is fictional, it is most possible. From the letters I’ve received since the Make A Difference movie first appeared, I know that examples of profound compassion happen all the time, with people like you and me.

Wouldn’t it be nice if it happened even more often? That’s why I’m writing. Because it is you and I, the people who read books like this, who need to reach for the power of compassion even more than we already do. We already get it. Yet to have more people making a difference, we must keep doing it.

When others around us, children or adults, behave unskillfully or inappropriately, with actions that are intended to affront or cause harm, they need our understanding and compassion.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa

This is the fork in the road, where we can choose compassion…or judgment. It’s important to understand that compassion does not mean that you condone hurtful or unskilled behavior. It’s reaching into yourself to relate to people with a heartfelt energy of compassion that they can hear and assimilate.

Every time I choose compassion, I am deeply astounded, not only at the power of this force, but that it really works to shift and change a situation.

We often miss an important point. As you go to that compassionate place within yourself to look at the person who is doing something upsetting, you are not only giving compassion, but you are also receiving what you’ve just given. You cannot launch a negative attitude or a judgment at someone and still feel peaceful and good about yourself. In those moments, it’s impossible to feel lovable or safe.

There has been a significant amount of research about compassion, in the areas of human development and behavior. Psychologists have demonstrated that a compassionate response to difficult people and situations yields a positive reaction 70% of the time. Whereas, responding with resentment or anger produces a negative reaction 100% of the time! So which odds would you choose?

Compassion: Positive Result 70% of the Time
Resentment: Failure Result 100% of the Time

As I’ve illustrated in my book, Attitude Alignment: The Art of Getting What You Want, if you want the problematic situations in your life to dissipate and improve, start “throwing compassion” at the person or at the problematic behavior. I know it sounds too simple, but I invite you to try it. The next time you are upset, throw compassion at the problem and see how the situation changes before your very eyes.

This story and this little book are a small but powerful reminder of what the highest and best part of yourself already knows. That compassion makes us protective rather than controlling. The difference is crucial in creating long-term, life-enhancing results.

To get what you want you must give away what you want.

If you want love, give it away.
If you want respect, give it away.
If you want honesty, give it away.
If you want cooperation, give it away.
If you want compassion, give it away.
If you want control, give it away!
It’s really very simple when you think about it.

I invite you to watch the Make A Difference movie again to gain even more understanding that Miss Thompson didn’t throw a ton of rules and appropriate boundaries at the kid to get him to step more fully into his greatness … she took him under her wing and taught him with direction: compassionately and encouragingly.

And in this way, we do in fact, Teach People How To Treat Us.

To watch it again, please go to: www.MakeADifferenceMovie.com

To understand more about the power of your attitude to affect people and challenging situations instantly, please watch my 16-minute Energy Illustration video training at: www.AttitudeIsPower.com

Take heart!

You have within you the power to heal your relationship with your son-in-law AND support their marriage in the ways that are highest and best.

Compassionately

Founder of Heart Productions & Publishing

PS … if you have received this email from a friend and would like to subscribe to my free newsletter go to: www.MakeADifference.com

PPS … I’m excited to announce that the gift book was completed on time and is in the hands of the printers.

We invite you to go see how beautiful our new gift book is and we welcome you to read the entire virtual book at: http://www.makeadifference.com/giftbook/BG01_detail.htm

Remember to take advantage of our 20-60% Discount Pre-Publication Offer on our new Make A Difference Gift Book & DVD.

20-60% Pre-Order Discount Offer is Available only through the Month of August!

As of today, Make A Difference …with the Power of Compassion is on it’s way to the printers …and right on schedule! In reading it through during the final edits yesterday, I cried again as I re-read each story …and I knew what was coming!

Click here to see the virtual book’s final exquisite layout, it’s gently transformative message, and read each heart touching story to lift you up and keep you moving forward.

And now …

I’d like to pay you for something you’re doing anyway!

In the past few months, I have been receiving so many emails from people seeing the possibilities of what I’m creating and wanting to know if we have an affiliate program. Well we do, I just wanted to get the book to the printers before I re-launched it.

We have an affiliate program because I need your help to get this movie around the world and to exceed 40 million views …and that’s just our first goal in making a world wide difference.

Our second goal is to reach 100 million throughout the world. Just to show you what’s possible: Chicken Soup for the Soul has sold over 100 million books throughout the world, so we know those numbers are out there. They also prospered tons of people along the way: not only their minds, hearts & souls… but their financial prosperity.

I did not sign a big publishing house contract (and I was offered one for this book) because it left me no room to do Fundraising (where I’m giving as much as 50% net of book retail to Non-Profits) or Affiliate programs with the gift book and movie.

If you don’t think you have enough emails addresses to make an impact, let alone extra income, let me tell you about my friend Kate Nowak, the creator and author of May You Be Blessed Movie: she had an email list of only 10 people that she launched her movie to!

To understand the "word-of-mouse" appeal of a movie, her movie has now been seen 3 million times this past year. We had a larger list, and our Make A Difference movie has been seen 6 million times just in this past 9 months. Only 94 million to go!

If you are a person who already loves my movies and is already forwarding them on, then you can see what could happen.

My affiliates will receive email letters you put your special affiliate link into and then send out to your email list about a new movie, a new book, a beautiful print or inspirational jewelry. Products people can use — are using — to make their lives feel better, and let the "word-of-mouse" do it’s thing. We have more movies we will be making too!

Every week I send out a newsletter. Every week my goal is to give people renewed hope through my message and a resource that I’ve created for that specific purpose. Use what you want of what I write. You will receive 20% net of every product I have at my website. It’s what I do. It’s how I make a difference …and now you can too.

One of my favorite statements of intention is: "As I prosper other’s, I am prospered!"

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Heart Productions & Publishing, PO Box 56, Newton Jct., NH 03859

excerpt from Make A Difference Gift Book

Compassion … the Universal language of mankind

For most people, the problem with being compassionate is that we fear if we offer it we’ll somehow be condoning and encouraging hurtful behavior. Yet, in a story like Teddy’s, we can see right away how a life can be changed for the better, with changes lasting the span of a lifetime.

The real power of compassion is choosing it in the midst of difficult situations involving behaviors that we find upsetting and entirely off-putting. How can one be expected to be compassionate in the midst of fear?

How indeed? And yet this is what this story is all about. While it is fictional, it is most possible. From the letters I’ve received since the Make A Difference movie first appeared, I know that examples of profound compassion happen all the time, with people like you and me. If you’ve received this book as a gift, it’s probably because you are making a difference in people’s lives all the time. Have you stopped to think about the wonderful changes you’re initiating?

Wouldn’t it be nice if it happened even more often? That’s why I’m writing. Because it is you and I, the people who read books like this, who need to reach for the power of compassion even more than we already do. We already get it. Yet to have more people making a difference, we must keep doing it.

When others around us, children or adults, behave unskillfully or inappropriately, with actions that are intended to affront or cause harm, they need our understanding and compassion.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa

This is the fork in the road, where we can choose compassion…or judgment. It’s important to understand that compassion does not mean that you condone hurtful or unskilled behavior. It’s reaching into yourself to relate to people with a heartfelt energy of compassion that they can hear and assimilate.

Every time I choose compassion, I am deeply astounded, not only at the power of this force, but that it really works to shift and change a situation.

We often miss an important point. As you go to that compassionate place within yourself to look at the person who is doing something upsetting, you are not only giving compassion, but you are also receiving what you’ve just given. You cannot launch a negative attitude or a judgment at someone and still feel peaceful and good about yourself. In those moments, it’s impossible to feel lovable or safe.

There has been a significant amount of research about compassion, in the areas of human development and behavior. Psychologists have demonstrated that a compassionate response to difficult people and situations yields a positive reaction 70% of the time. Whereas, responding with resentment or anger produces a negative reaction 100% of the time! So which odds would you choose?

Compassion: Positive Result 70% of the Time

Resentment: Failure Result 100% of the Time

As I’ve illustrated in my book, Attitude Alignment: The Art of Getting What You Want, if you want the problematic situations in your life to dissipate and improve, start "throwing compassion” at the person or at the problematic behavior. I know it sounds too simple, but I invite you to try it. The next time you are upset, throw compassion at the problem and see how the situation changes before your very eyes.

The Teddy Stallard story and the seven stories in this little gift book are a small but powerful reminder of what the highest and best part of you already knows. That compassion makes us protective rather than controlling. The difference is crucial in creating long-term, life-enhancing results.

Here’s to Making A Difference in Someone’s Life Today …

MARY

Founder of Heart Productions & Publishing

PS … if you have received this email from a friend and would like to subscribe to my free newsletter go to: www.MakeADifference.com

PPS … I’m excited to announce that the gift book was completed on time and is in the hands of the printers.

We invite you to go see how beautiful our new gift book is and we welcome you to read the entire virtual book at: http://www.makeadifference.com/giftbook/BG01_detail.htm

Remember to take advantage of our 20-60% Discount Pre-Publication Offer on our new Make A Difference Gift Book & DVD.

20-60% Pre-Order Discount Offer is Available only through the Month of August!

Heart Productions & Publishing, PO Box 56, Newton Jct., NH 03859

Making a Difference …with Purpose

Our gifts and our talents are our business in life; they are our purpose. It is in the reaching out in purpose that we receive the joy of passion. Without purpose, passion, and a sense that we are making a difference, what meaning does our life really have, and why should we strive to do our best work? As I heard author Brian Tracy once say: You are the CEO of your own service organization.

How often do we think of compassion as it relates to the business of sales?

I find it interesting that so many people minimize the importance of the job of a salesperson, without recognizing that this is truly a business of service. We are all in the business of sales. When you want your spouse to take you out on a date to see a movie, you are immediately in the business of sales. Our children practice sales techniques every single time they try to sell us on the advantages of a new toy.

What we often fail to realize is that the business of sales is actually a form of education. The salesperson’s original intention is to teach people about products that can and do have the potential to make a difference in their lives simply by the ease and comfort they bring.

The gift is always in the giving; meaning that we receive as we give. This heartwarming story of one woman’s experience in direct sales explains this contrarian concept.

Kathleen Pulsipher and her two brothers and sisters were raised in Utah by two very loving parents. She found her one true love in 1975, at the age of 25, and together they nurtured thirteen foster children and raised four beautiful adopted children. Kathleen became a Mary Kay skin care consultant in 1993, a job which has been a blessing to her in so many ways, from overcoming shyness, to meeting the most amazing people during her fourteen years as a consultant.

Her story is most inspiring to people of all industries and professions, those who are encouraged to make a difference because of that strong, insistent pull inside them. Here is her beautiful story:

"I had been a Mary Kay consultant for about three years when I met a woman who was very excited to be treated to a complimentary pampering session. I remember that the day was bright and sunshiny. I pulled up to her home, which looked very nice on the outside, and I rang the doorbell. She opened the door and invited me in. In fact, she was so excited to have me come, but to my surprise, there was no furniture in her home, except for a small kitchen table with two chairs.

"The woman and I sat and chatted for a moment and I then set up my products for her facial. She couldn’t have been more excited to get started. At the end of our facial time, I asked the usual question, ‘What could I help you with today?’

"She wanted every product that she had tried that morning. Yet in the back of my mind, all I could think about was the fact that she had no furniture. So it came as no surprise when she told me that she could not pay me today, but that she had a welfare check coming in the next day or two. Could I please hold her order until then, and at that time, she’d like it all. I wrote the entire order down for her, knowing that cosmetics were not what she needed, but some furniture instead.

"I packed up my products and supplies and was ready to leave. My heart felt heavy. I knew it was not right to take her money, so I was not going to have a new customer or sale. She walked out to my car, helping me to carry my cases.

"When we said goodbye, she suddenly gave me a big hug, one I knew was sincere. Tears began to trickle down her face as she told me, ‘I am so pretty, I am so pretty—thank you for sharing your time with me. I will have money in a few days.’

"I hugged her back with a heart that felt so free and loving. I knew at that moment that I had been given the biggest paycheck I could ever receive. No, I never saw or heard from her again, but I knew that two lives had been touched that day. I have been a Mary Kay consultant now for fourteen years and will always carry this ‘paycheck of the heart’ with me. Thank you for allowing me to share this precious moment with you today.

"Is there a direct correlation between true compassion and the prosperity of a business? Most definitely, yes! Mary Kay Ash, the founder of Mary Kay, has always taught us that people have an invisible sign around their neck that says, "Make me feel important." She is absolutely right. People want to feel that they matter. When customers feel good about themselves they are receptive to what you would like to share with them. You need to take the dollar signs out of your eyes and be truly sincere in helping and making a person feel good, first and foremost. The sale in most cases will follow but, again, getting customers to feel great about themselves is the ultimate sale that we can make with a person.

"Always remember that whatever you give to people, you will get returned tenfold."

To Your Richest Life!
Mary

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Make A Difference …with Connection

Within every one of us is a still small voice. It’s a spiritual connection that cannot be seen or touched. Yet we have a way to verify invisible things by utilizing a faculty more powerful and reliable than the five senses of consciousness. We are touched by each other’s stories. When we are touched, we access compassion. Compassion is our truest nature and our purest connection to Spirit.

This connection never causes harm to one’s self or to others.

Very simply put, spiritual connection is a sense of something greater than the self. It can be God, nature, the cosmos, a social cause, or the sea of humanity. A psychological sense of spirituality is a feeling of union and transcendence, motivated by compassion, awe, peace or joy. This remarkable connection is related in a story my husband shared with me, about his first conscious experience with the spirit of compassion in the work environment.

"A disgruntled employee had set our building on fire, and it burned hot enough to melt the computers and phones on everyone’s desk in my accounting department at the small trucking company where I was controller. Within eight hours, we had phones and dispatch computers back up and running in the shop building, but the next three months were chaotic as everything in the fire-damaged area was torn down and rebuilt in record time.

"The owner of the company, an achievement-driven former truck driver demanded excellence from everyone - and was sure to let you know it if you fell short on anything. I was stressed beyond imagination, having worked seven days a week for three months, managing the computer systems’ reconstruction crisis and the rebuilding. The owner was even more stressed, feeling his life’s work threatened.

"Shortly before we moved back into the new building, he called me upstairs to his office. As I saw the outburst coming - it was a regular occurrence - I tensed my whole body and clenched my jaw, not to fight back, but to withstand the verbal assault. He met me at the door, red-faced, and threatened to throw me back down the stairs. Shoving a packet of receipts in my face, he bellowed that I had failed to pay his personal American Express bill that month.

"In the instant that he threw the bills at me, it was as if time had slowed down. I raised my arm and grabbed them out of the air before they hit me. The owner continued his verbal assault, inches from my face, but I didn’t hear it. I realized immediately that I had reverted to the state of ’suspended animation’ that I had used as a child, in self-defense against my father during his frequent verbal attacks.

"I had done years of therapy work on my ‘father issues’ and had come to love him, knowing that he was terribly stressed, abused and pressured by his own father. In that moment, I saw my boss in the same loving light. I almost smiled, but suppressed it, knowing that he would misinterpret it as smugness or defiance.

"Would I call it ‘compassion’? I hadn’t thought of it that way at the time, but that is what it was. Compassion for my boss, for my father, and for myself. I was consciously aware that I felt something bigger than myself, a spiritual connection to all humanity. In this state of heightened awareness, it was easy - in fact, effortless - not to internalize the shame he was heaping on me. I instantly knew that missing the payment was both understandable and trivial in the circumstances; and I knew that both he and I were stretched beyond our limits.

"Then the most amazing thing happened. Instead of ending his ranting with the usual epithets and degrading remarks about my lack of performance, he started stuttering and sputtering. He seemed unable to continue with his tirade. I think he saw in my eyes the compassion I felt for him in that moment, and he was completely disarmed. He mumbled a dismissal, and I went down the stairs with a new view of the scene before me. I had a ‘knowing’ that it would not be long before I was working somewhere else. I had a sense of compassion as well for the many employees I would be leaving behind in this oppressive environment.

"We never talked about that incident after that, but I felt a shift in our relationship. He was still a tough boss, but he stopped intervening directly with my staff (something I had objected to in the past) but came to me instead. While he was no less tolerant of errors than before, he seldom raised his voice against me.

"Within a few months, we mutually agreed to part company. I had been wanting out of accounting for many years, but felt stuck there. Within a short time, I was in a different job doing what I truly loved, managing customer service and systems design at a computer software company, working for a group of creative, inspired professionals.

"There’s an old saying that we don’t get to move on to the next levels in life until we have total peace with our current situation."

Compassion is not about complacency as you take action. We are all Angels for each other so we can reconcile what we came here to be.

Make it a Great Week!
Mary

PS … Remember to take advantage of our 50% Discount Pre-Publication Offer on our new Make A Difference Gift Book & DVD

Due to a timely and inspired dream, the Make A Difference Gift book has just received a beautiful new, all-inclusive cover that expresses the whole message of the book as an extension of the Teddy Stallard story.

This Offer is Available only through the Month of June!

	Make A Difference …with the Power of Compassion - Gift Book & DVD Hardcover, 128 pages, 6.75" square By Mary Robinson Reynolds Give Your Friends, Family, Customers & Associates Something Meaningful & Uplifting! If You’ve Loved Make A Difference Movie the Gift Book with real life stories about the Power of Compassion …will touch people & Change Lives!
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The most effective place we can break in is at the thought level, rather than at the behavioral or the emotional levels.

Thoughts have been considered of utmost importance for many centuries by the great philosophers. "I think, therefore I am." We know that there are common phrases - what goes around comes around or what you put out comes back - which apply not only to behaviors, but are especially applicable to thoughts as well. Everything we think reaches out into the world, carrying its effects in powerful ways, far beyond what we might imagine.

In becoming a TurnAround Specialist, we are ready to see just how our thoughts so often have much more of an effect than what is actually said or done with people, both in our work and in our personal relationships. How you perceive somebody (you think of them as attractive or unattractive) - that is a thought.

Attitudes are born of our thoughts, and the level of emotion stimulated by the thought causes the vibrations that reach out into our world. The attitudes we carry actually influence and determine our experience with a person or an event. In fact, all communication begins with a thought and energetically vibrates out from the attitude, which is formed from the thought.

The decision you make about that thought becomes your attitude, and energetically it is constantly in motion, whether you mean for it to be or not. The more emotion there is attached to the thought, the stronger the vibration and the more it has the capacity to be felt, both by the sender and the receiver of the vibration.

When you perceive someone as kind or unkind, you have a thought that stimulates an emotion, which then becomes an attitudinal vibe. This will completely determine how you will then interact with that person, and they with you. Regardless of whether or not the person who you are communicating with is cognizant of the vibes they are getting from you, they will in fact have an energetic response.

The more conscious a person is about their own attitudes toward another, and mindful about the vibes they are sending off, the more they can intentionally decide exactly how they want to effect that person, and thus a desired outcome. By the same token, the more conscious a person is about the vibes being sent to them, or what may feel to be AT them, the more they can be mindful and elective about what they choose to do with their response.

Our perceptions are never truly objective, for perception is a result of all of the decisions we’ve made about our world since our earliest memories. When our thoughts give rise to an emotion, based on a perception and a decision about an experience, we vibrate an energy created from the attitude we’ve held in the past, and probably nursed, cursed and rehearsed ever since. We see people as opposed to us (or abusing us, giving it to us or depriving us) OR we see them as loving and nurturing. How we perceive them, and what we think about them, generates an expectation, an attitude, a vibration, which then can virtually determine the outcome.

© 2003 Written by: Mary Robinson Reynolds http://www.AttitudeIsPower.com

Make it a great weekend!

Make it a Great Week!
Mary

PS … Becoming a TurnAround Specialist means exactly that: turning things around. Since I’ve been wearing this, I have a constant reminder that I am connected to the all that is. Remembering that I can let go and trust, automatically begins the process of turning things around. The miraculous results I’ve received since I began simply wearing this bracelet, astound me.

That’s why I felt deeply moved to bring this pendant to you!

Price Discounts Quantity Unit Price 1 to 2 $36.00 3 to 9 $33.00 10 plus $30.00

Renowned jewelry designer MichéMeizner’s All Is Well … Really! Pendant Sterling Inspiration Take a powerful, universal message of peace & confidence to heart: Good day dear one! This is God. I will be handling ALL of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day!

The front of the pendant states a powerful intention "All Is Well," a core message in so many spiritual teachings, and features the image of a tree …how peaceful to sit and contemplate the message that "All Is Well" under a strong, old graceful tree. A stream runs alongside the tree, using the stream a metaphor for your life energy, and everything you want is downstream. Drop the oars and let your own current of well-being carry you to the fulfillment of your desires.

It is as important to be a good recipient of the gift of compassion as it is to be the giver. Or are they really any different?

On those occasions when I feel inwardly directed to hand money to a person who is asking for money at freeway exits or grocery store parking lots, I have had some of the most profound, amazing and mystical experiences of my life.

I’ll never forget the first time it happened. I was coming up an off-ramp and I saw, on the left side of my vehicle, a father standing with his teen-age son. It was probably because of the boy that I felt an urgent need to reach quickly into my pocket book and pull out any cash I could find. Two twenties landed in my fingers and I rolled down my window to reach out and hand it to the father.

As he reached out and gently took the money from my hand, he looked directly and deeply in my eyes and as he touched my soul he said, "God bless you." In that instant, I immediately felt a profound connection. The light changed and I forced myself to drive. I was so overwhelmed with a world of feelings in that moment. I felt it all. The world of suffering and pain. The world of ecstasy and wonder. The world of amazing light and love enveloped me, and all I could do was weep and weep and weep some more, deeply, from my soul. I pulled off the side of the road, because I couldn’t even drive. I was so overcome by what had just happened.

It matters not to me what people who ask for money actually do with the money. It’s all about what happens as we look into each other’s eyes and souls. It is something I can, in fact, give that has the potential to make a lasting difference. Miss Thompson didn’t attach the level of her giving to what Teddy would or wouldn’t do with it. She simply thought about Teddy compassionately because it was what was needed.

There is a presence and a power that breathes within every single one of us. No matter what we call it, it’s inside each and every one of us. Yet compassion calls it forth in ways that are beyond our human understanding.

How compassion works is a mystery as deep as Spirit itself. With compassion, there is a whole range of positive possibilities.

Research on the brain reveals that compassionate thoughts light up the frontal lobe of a person’s brain. (The frontal lobe is where the mind can access solutions.) When we are resentful or angry there is no light in that part of the brain, and so we shut down and fail to function well. As soon as we begin to experience compassionate thoughts, this part of the brain lights up, and we can literally go from "impossible" to "possible" in an instant.

Whether you are devoutly religious or deeply spiritual, an atheist, an agnostic or a skeptic, when you simply decide to think compassionate thoughts, the power of the feeling that is ignited is palpable. The connection is instantly available and deeply real.

The compassion within is what makes the difference.

Make me an instrument of your peace and when I have gone, then I have done what I came here to do.

For a quick trip from your head to your heart Click here to watch the movie .

Here’s to Making A Difference in Someone’s Life Today …
Mary

Take Advantage of our 50% Pre-Production Offer - through June ! Only $12.50

Make A Difference - with the Power of Compassion Gift Book & DVD Hardcover, 128 pages, 6.75" square By Mary Robinson Reynolds This is a story about more than kindness; it’s about the essence and the power that compassion offers all humanity. Many of us cry every time we watch this movie. Perhaps it’s because we wish we’d had someone in our lives who had shown us that compassion. Or maybe it reminds us of all the special people who have made a difference in our lives, and we cry with gratitude. For example, a 6 ft. 2in., 250-pound construction worker by the name of Walter Wood wrote to tell me that he felt this short film about Teddy Stallard was not only quite profound but that it actually brought tears to his eyes. He said it made him realize that he must be more mindful when he’s training his apprentices.

I received so many phenomenal stories and was able to select those that captured the essence of my new gift book.

*I am saving back the stories that were not a fit for this book. Every single story either made me cry, sigh or just feel good. I intend to give many of them their due by writing a full-length book one day. I want to send out my biggest heart felt thanks to those who made the time to make a difference in my life by having read your story.

The Power of Compassion segments of this book literally wrote itself. I barely remember what happened. Just that it happened easily and profoundly.

Today, I’m thrilled to give you

13 sample pages

of just how inspirational and beautiful this Gift book is.

It’s powerfully written, professionally edited and being formatted as I write this. We will go to print with it on or before July 1. It will be ready for shipping on or before Sept. 1.

To give it a proper launch, and to give people an opportunity to prepare “in advance” for this coming fall’s personal gift giving, employee appreciation and membership incentive programs, fundraisers, etc - I am going to give a whopping 50% PRE-PRODUCTION DISCOUNT no matter how large the quantity you, your company or organization wants to purchase during the month of June.

This Offer is Available only from today through the Month of June!

Click here to see Sample Pages