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Welcome!

Welcome!
Dear Friends, WOW! Can you believe ‘tis the season already?! This is such a great time of year when many of us reconnect with family and friends and spend time together. It is also a time when expressing gratitude is emphasized as a seasonal prescription. We would like to encourage you to make expressing gratitude a daily habit rather than a seasonal habit...it truly is one of our most powerful tools. So get in the habit of being grateful and watch your magical life unfold! In this issue of Joyful Evolution’s newsletter we share with you how the Law of Detachment can be magical source in your life (see Jennifer’s true story).

Upcoming Events

First we want to share with you information about our upcoming seminar with Will Linville who is coming back to New Jersey this coming December 9th- 14th, our Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Daily Tele-Class and Donna’s ongoing Gentle Yoga Class. Our events, CD, Donna’s new book, and our new location at the Center for Holistic Wellness are collaborative inspirations with gifted individuals.


Discover and Integrate your True Potential Will Linville and Joyful Evolution

This workshop will examine the simple truth that exists for all of us…all the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, etc. They have affected your physical, mental and spiritual health.

For those of you who know Will Linville (williamlinville.com) and have experienced him we need say no more. If you have not had the opportunity, Will is an intuitive healer, a medical intuitive and soul guide. He integrates you with your authentic self, clearing blockages that are keeping you from expressing all that you intend to be.

Also, you receive, through Will, messages from unseen guides and Masters that accompany you throughout your life. The energy blockages that affect your health; physical, emotional and spiritual bodies can be released so you can heal.

Refuse to tolerate anything less than harmony. You can have a happy and rich life. Join us for a powerful workshop that will help you seize the rudder of your own destiny and create a rich life!!!

Date: Saturday, December 10th
Time: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm
Cost: $69 per person
RSVP: Click Here or call 908.451.8877
Location: Center for Holistic Wellness (www.centerforholisticwellness.com) at 3108 Route 10, West in Denville, NJ

Join our very powerful Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Daily Tele-Class in which you will learn how to understand, apply and integrate the Life Changing Principles of Deepak Chopra's Best Selling Masterpiece, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success to Your Life!

 What is Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Daily Tele-Class?
It is a daily resource available for individuals who wish to realize more of their potential. Apply the Life Changing Principles of Deepak Chopra’s Best Selling Masterpiece, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. Understand true personal power and integrate it into your life through daily support.

What Should You Expect?

Who Should Participate?
The Seven Spiritual Laws for Success tele-class is a resource for individuals who wish to realize more of their potential. It is well known that shortly after motivational speakers or books have inspired people to change, life happens and they find themselves defaulting to their same old patterns.


Why Should YOU or Someone You Know Join?
Our program is designed to make the changes sustainable by providing high impact, high frequency and daily ongoing support as you apply the knowledge to your life. The three essential components of sustainable change (high impact, high frequency, and ongoing support) are rolled into one powerful program!

Date: Enroll now because each week includes lectures on one of the Laws and Q & A discussion times so you can jump on the call when it is convenient for you to do so throughout the week.
Convenient Lunch & Learn Time: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 12 pm – 1 pm
Convenient Evening Time: Tuesdays, Wednesdays 8.00pm-9.00pm
Location: it is a telebridge call so call in from wherever you like!
Cost: $99 per month …start and stop whenever you desire
Call 908.918.1272 or Click Here to register. The call in number and PIN will be sent to you after registering for the class.

Click here to listen to hear our Seven Spiritual Laws lectures for FREE.


Gentle Yoga with Donna Visco
Join Donna for a beginner level, very gentle yoga class based on Deepak Chopra’s Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga that will enhance flexibility and help release stress. This class is perfect for all body types and physical conditions. If you have ever though about taking yoga and felt intimidated, this is the class for you!!!

Dates: Mondays and Friday mornings
Time: 9.30 am – 10.30 am
Cost: $10 per class
RSVP: Donna 908.688.7974
Location: Center for Holistic Wellness (www.centerforholisticwellness.com) at 3108 Route 10, West in Denville, NJ
**bring a yoga mat, one large towel and one washcloth to cover your eyes

 

Detach and let the Magic Happen

“…In our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the Universe…”
~The Mundaka Upanishad

In his best selling book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra states that in order to acquire anything in the physical Universe you have to relinquish attachment to it (in other words detach). You don’t give up the intention and you don’t give up your desire; you simply give up your attachment to the result. Detachment works as complement to Intentions and Desires.

Acquiring your desires through practicing detachment is based on the unquestioning belief in your true Self, your connection to the unlimited, expansive, boundless universe that gives rise to anything that was, is and ever will be. It is the field of pure potential that brings you the result you are looking for…not your boss, not you, not anything outside of you. All you have to do is state your intentions and desires and detach from ‘how’ and ‘when’ they will be delivered.

The opposite of Detachment is attachment, and many know this beast personally. It is based on fear and insecurity, and the need for security is based on not knowing our true Selves. To be attached means to be powerless which means you give your power away to transitory symbols that come and go such as cars, money, houses, clothes, etc. For example, if you feel that having a million dollars in the bank will give you security, or you don’t feel satisfied unless you have the latest Lexus convertible, or are seen eating at the trendiest restaurants you are giving your power away, you are looking to sources outside yourself to bring you fulfillment. When we look outside ourselves for power and happiness we are making something other than our true self our source.

Attachment also is clinging to the known, and what is the known? It is past! It is the prison of our past conditioning. And in the past there is no security, evolution, empowerment, or creativity. The ego feels comfortable with the known and since the ego’s job is to protect us it gets very attached to outcomes and trying to figure out how we can acquire our desires (the ego always wants to know ‘did I’, ‘will I’, ‘am I’ doing a good job?). For example, I used to be very attached to earning a well- paying and steady income, and climbing the corporate ladder which I thought meant security for me. Once I became aware of and appalled at a client service practice at my company, I would ignore the resistance I felt inside, and because of my attachment to the money I would convince myself that I had to put up and shut up (my ego was direct with me!). It was my past conditioning that prevented me from opening up to infinite possibilities…my instincts were telling me to move on and my ego said ‘don’t do it’, and because I wasn’t detached I felt miserable and empty inside.

So where is true power, potential, creativity? THEY EXIST ONLY IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. And we tend to cut ourselves from the present moment because we are either feeling guilty or shameful about something that happened in the past or worrying about something that will happen in the future. Deepak says, “In the wisdom of uncertainty I found true security”. Uncertainty is the Present Moment; it is a true power connection to our unlimited source. For example, imagine I am trying to get a job. It looks like the job I want, and it appears the odds are in my favor as I move from interview to interview within the office, yet at the last minute they choose to hire someone else. If I am detached then I trust that another opportunity, the RIGHT opportunity is on its way. However, if I am so attached to getting that job for whatever reason (financial, personal achievement/accolades, etc), I cause myself tons of anxiety and stress if I don’t get it, which means I am looking for this job, this outside source to fulfill me on some level.

So, how do I find comfort in detachment and security in uncertainty?

We know the field of pure potential can correlate an infinity of space time events which is one of the characteristics of the field, which means that there is nothing that is too big or complex for this field to handle. Our bodies can process 6 trillion thoughts per second, can swallow, blink, smell, taste, touch, grow hair and fingernails, exchange oxygen and release carbon dioxide, track the earth as it rotates on it’s axis, and grow a baby in my stomach all at the same time…all of these things are happening simultaneously, synchronistically, coincidentally. This is the intelligence of the universe handling an infinite number of correlations. And if the Universe can handle all of these events at the same time, what can it not do? And if I continue my limited thinking and attachment to the way things have to be (ie, I have to have a particular job or a certain amount of money in the bank or a house in a certain neighborhood), I cut myself off from the field and it’s intelligence that handles so much more than I can possibly imagine. If I am completely detached I have relinquished the need to know how and when my desires will arrive…they may come around in a way that totally surprises me …all I know is that when I put this intelligence to work, it brings me what I want and I have no idea how it does it. Let me share with you a personal story of how magical and mysterious the Universe can deliver your desires.


In August of 2004, my girlfriend and her husband returned from a vacation they could not stop raving about. They told us about their visit to a small island off the mainland of Puerto Rico called Vieques, a beautiful, serene oasis that had still yet to become over-commercialized. They shared how they loved the quaintness of the island and their accommodation, the people, the food, and swimming in the Bioluminescent Bay, which is inhabited by special mangrove tree eating algae that glow when exposed to movement thus causing one’s body to behave like a human glow stick when swimming in this bay. The recap of their fabulous vacation was followed by, “You and Mike will LOVE this place, you must go!” And since you don’t have to tell me twice to go on vacation, my husband and I said, “based on what you have said, we want to and we will!” We were very excited about this and when Mike and I looked at our calendars we noted that given our upcoming schedules we would not have a block of time until March or April of 2005. So we agreed to look into booking our vacation in the New Year. Well, the New Year came and in February when we looked at our calendars, our schedules had changed slightly and booking a reasonable and relaxing vacation was becoming effortful based on the travel time, the flight arrangements and the available accomodations. So we let it go…we have learned better than to try to force something to happen. We went about our lives and agreed to revisit this issue when it felt right. In June another girlfriend of mine called to announce she had just gotten engaged and to invite us to her wedding celebration to be held in November 2005 at a beautiful resort, near the Bioluminescent bay on a small island off the mainland of Puerto Rico called… Vieques. How cool is this…this is how mysterious the Universe is, and here is the magical part…in addition to her inviting us to her wedding at which we celebrated joyously with old friends and new, she and her fiancée graciously gifted to us plane fare and accommodation costs during our stay. So, by remaining detached, and comfortable with uncertainty, not only did we avoid the stress and angst of trying to make the vacation happen, we also got to share our visit with old friends and new, with whom we had a blast, and it cost us much less than if we had tried to force it in March or April! And please know, it is with heartfelt gratitude that I say thank you to N & R, a generous pair who hosted a magnificent wedding celebration full of love, laughter and joy… may you continue to receive a thousand fold that which you share with others.


Let’s look at how we can Detach from your Desires and Stay on Target with goals.
The Law of Detachment does not interfere with goal setting. We must have goals otherwise we are denying our inner desires, cutting ourselves off from growth and development. Don’t goals inspire us to live and create and move forward? If we are not doing this, we are dying on the inside. We want to embrace desires, intentions and goal setting…we just don’t want to cling to them. Of course, we all want to realize our goals and desires, however if realizing them is the source of our well-being, the source of our happiness or source of our worthiness we will fail!

We have all heard of or know the classic stereotypes called overachievers who appear to have it all, the money, the house, the celebrated position, etc. only to be miserable on the inside…they’ve been setting and realizing goals all their lives, and are still miserable.

This is why detachment is so crucial. When I don’t have to have this thing in order to be well, or be happy, then I can let go and enjoy the process. In my case, I did not need to visit Vieques in order to be happy, I had a healthy desire, felt it would be great to visit, yet it wasn’t a ‘do or die’ situation. Understand it is the process that is the joy, because the minute we realize our goal, we are going to be setting new goals. There is no realization of any goal that is going to be the completion of us, once we realize one goal we are going to keep moving forward, moving forward, we are evolutionary beings. I am sure you have all experienced this. There is no way that the realization of goals is the source of our peace of mind or wholeness.

When you acknowledge that by having your goal realized doesn’t bring you power or happiness, detachment is spontaneous. When we enjoy the process we enjoy our lives and allow the thing that we are looking for to come faster. It is a miserable feeling to always be waiting for something outside of us to bring us happiness, which is poverty consciousness, or thinking that is full of lack, loss, and limitations. Once we change our energetic constitution and we get into this belief that we can BE, DO, or HAVE anything our desires come to fruition faster and faster, but when we are attached we get into a rigid mindset so we lose the spontaneity that is inherent in the field of pure potential.

We must stay present because when we stay in present moment, we are connected to our source~ when we are living in the future worrying about something or in the past clinging onto the known, we are operating from our ego. When we are in the present moment and connected to the field of pure potential, or our source, we are guaranteed that we are going to get the things we are focusing on, what we have our attention on.

Make goal setting work for you by focusing on four components:

    1. Set clear, simple and believable goals, intentions and desires
      Let’s say you intend to live a healthier lifestyle. In order to do so, you set some goals (reduce weight, exercise more regularly, reduces stress levels) to live in alignment with your intention. It is so important that our goals are realistic; we are hardwired and conditioned by our past behaviors, so if we have always not been able to lose weight quickly and keep it off then this time will be no different. If we set unrealistic goals we are setting ourselves up for failure. Be truthful with yourself, and know that your truth is not the truth for anyone else but you…you have to get real with yourself. For example: my goal to create a vibrant, healthy body trashing 10 lbs in a sustainable fashion within 3 months is more supportive for me because I believe I can do this vs. my goal to trash 20 pounds in 2 weeks, which will only cause pain, struggle and more likely disappointment. It’s more effective to take baby steps in setting your goals because when you achieve that goal you will absolutely give birth to a new goal. Perhaps my new one will be to lose ten more pounds in three more months. Now I have a powerful reference and new hardwiring that says, ‘you can do it because you just did it’ …it is a powerful reference so you can continue to set yourself up for success.

    2. Believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that you will acquire your goal. Literally, see your intentions, desires and goals as done and allow Universal intelligence to handle the details. Be mindful to become a vibrational match for your goal. We know that every thought, emotion and feeling is very simply energy and information vibrating at the speed of light, so if you open up my brain you will not see a ticker tape of thoughts or if you open my heart you will not see the love, compassion, and gratitude that flows to and from it. When you tune into 95.5 fm, the classic rock station you do not expect to hear music from101.1 fm, Beethoven’s greatest hits and just like a radio antenna, our bodies radiate a signal and attract a matching signal back. So if there is something that you desire that you currently do not have and you put your attention upon your current state of not having it, the lack of it, the Universe will continue to match that ‘not having’ vibration so you will continue to not have that which you desire. You must achieve vibrational harmony with what you desire. One way is to focus on the benefits of reaching your goal. In the example above focus on the benefits of being 10 pounds lighter, i.e., more energy, less joint pain, more flexibility, less stress on organs, etc. rather than focusing on the pain, struggle and deprivation involved in trashing the weight (which most likely a concern of your past conditioning).

    3. Focus your attention on enjoying the process, not the outcome…this is detachment!
      Think for a moment or two about what your life’s purpose is because when your intentions, goals and desires are in alignment with your life’s purpose rather than being self serving, the Universe will deliver your desires without much participation on your part. It is important that your intentions, desires and goals are set in the vein of ‘how can I serve, how can I contribute’ rather than ‘what’s in it for me?’ When your goals are set in alignment with your purpose rather than what you hope for yourself, and you detach from how they should be delivered your dreams will come true without more quickly without much effort from you. It is much more effective to want to trash 10 pounds so you can be a healthy and positive role model for your kids and have more energy so you can be around for and keep up with your grandkids (how can I contribute to others) versus trying to trash 10 pounds so you can fit into the little black dress in time for the Jones’s New Years Eve party during which you believe everyone’s critical eyes will be on you (what’s in it for me?).

    4. Embrace the Present Moment and follow your internal guidance system. When you are whole and complete and drawing upon your infinite source you will feel good all over. If you are thinking of how in the past you failed to reach your goals, you are in guilt or shame. If you are worried about whether you will reach your target you are living in fear. If you allow your ego to take over and cut you off from your source of manifestation you will feel the discomfort in your body, usually it shows up as a knot in the stomach or tightness in the chest or tension near the brow line. Notice, be aware, and identify where you are feeling the discomfort, don’t judge it, just notice it and come back to your center, to the present moment where all your power is. For example, if I want to trash 10 pounds in 3 months, I don’t need to focus my attention on food for the whole three months. In fact, if I do this I am more likely to eat more! I simply need to be present with myself while I am eating each meal. If I feel anxiety this is my indication that I am embarking on a self-destructive (goal destroying) tangent. Ultimately, this habit of being present with ME becomes so empowering, that I am able to stop sabotaging my goal. I will be able to feel the urge (the discomfort in my body) to sabotage and disempower it before acting on that urge by becoming present.

    We encourage you to embrace detachment as a tool for success…who knows you may reduce your stress levels and live a happier and more fulfilled life!

    For more information on how to understand and tap into your true personal power we encourage you to participate in our Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Daily Tele-Class click here for more info.



    This Month's Soul Food Recommendation

    It's a Wonderful Life! CD Set

    It’s a Wonderful Life! This live recording from September 9th-11th 2005 is absolutely full of life changing gems and Divine Inspirations from Will Linville, Donna Visco and Jennifer Connell. Give yourself or someone you know a gift that truly keeps on giving this holiday season!!! Only $65.

    Click Here to Purchase

    With Gratitude:
    To the participants of our live classes, tele-classes and seminars, your energy and your desire is a significant part of our driving force. Thank you for supporting us and for being the fire that heats our hearts and souls so we can stay on purpose in sharing life transforming information clearly and openly as we continue on our journey together.

    Namaste,

    Donna and Jennifer