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    From Gentle Nudges to Cosmic Whacks: A Guide to Living Your InSpired Life
    From Gentle Nudges to Cosmic Whacks: A Guide to Living Your InSpired Life
    From Gentle Nudges to Cosmic Whacks: A Guide to Living Your InSpired Life
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    From Gentle Nudges to Cosmic Whacks: A Guide to Living Your InSpired Life

    By Penny Carter

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    Ever feel upside down and slightly off-kilter? Yeah, me too. And, I get that way more often than I’d like to admit. The key to living life right-side up and in balance is to live from an InSpired place. This book helps you get there and gives you tips on how to maintain being there. Before you know it, living an InSpired life will come naturally!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJan 15, 2014
    ISBN9781483516707
    From Gentle Nudges to Cosmic Whacks: A Guide to Living Your InSpired Life

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      From Gentle Nudges to Cosmic Whacks - Penny Carter

      CARDS

      CHAPTER ONE

      WHAT DOES LIVING AN INSPIRED LIFE MEAN?

      The word inspired comes from the Latin word inspirare, meaning to breathe. In other words, to draw in breath to draw in life. So when someone asks what inSpires you, they are really asking what gives you life?

      You will find that I capitalize the I and the S in InSpire. I do this so that you (and I) can keep in mind that when I write of being InSpired or InSpiration, my meaning is to incorporate The Divine. You may refer to It as Spirit, Source Energy, God, Light, Mother Earth, or Universal Soul to name a few. However you refer to The Divine, that is what is meant. I define InSpiration as a divine connection with all that is. We have access to InSpiration at all times . . . it’s about connecting with it and sitting still long enough to catch a Spark.

      Living an InSpired life means living your life in context with who you are in relation to Spirit or the Universe, and being open to and receiving guidance along the way. It means looking for and seeing the grace in all situations

      How do we get InSpired? We can be inSpired in many ways. Through nature, through the laughter of an infant or the smile of an elder. We can be InSpired by the sound of the ocean, the taste of the special recipe, the rhythm of the beat of a drum, the excitement in the face of a child. Sometimes we get InSpiration through meditation. Other times, we get insight and vision through our dreams. Sometimes, Spirit gets downright pushy in its attempt to give us messages that will lead us on our way to an Inspired life.

      I think many of us have had a time or two when we might have felt pushed to do something . . . even if that something wasn’t what you really wanted to do. But it’s persistent, this push or gentle nudge. So you just give in and do it.

      Such was the case when I wrote my first book—"Building a Business—Creating a Life: A Design for Finding Personal Fulfillment and Professional Success." I had absolutely NO intention of writing a book. I was, at the time, creating my own Life Purpose Process® Career Consulting business, and I had not the time nor inclination to write one.

      Still, day after day, I felt this nudge—and some days I almost physically felt a shove from behind—like someone thrusting their hand into the middle of my back saying go on. DO IT! For several months this continued. And, it seemed, the only way it was going to go away was to write the D@#$@#$M book! So I did. Not knowing exactly what I was doing, I went to the coast for a weekend, where quite easily, the idea, topics and outline came to me. For the next few months, I sat in a coffee shop a few blocks from where I was living at the time and methodically wrote each chapter. I was truly amazed at just how quickly I completed it.

      Looking back, there were several things that stood out. First, I now know that nudge was Spirit urging me to get on with it. And, while I was writing, there were times that I was guided to write in more mainstream terms rather than the more Spiritual terms I might have. Somewhere along the line, I got that I was to write for people who had yet to be introduced to a concept of purpose or Spirit. So it had to be done gently. The words came easily. And I gotta say, they didn’t always come from me.

      Eventually I connected with local writers and a publishers' group and went on to publish the book. That was in 1999. On the day the books arrived at my doorstep, I took a look at them and then looked up toward the sky and said Okay. Now what? I had written the book—now what was I supposed to do? Well, I did what anyone would do—set out about marketing it, did a few readings at local bookstores, and used it in workshops. I can only trust that whoever was to have gotten messages from the book did so.

      I have also come to believe that the exercise was about listening to Spirit, trusting the process, and learning how to listen and when to act when Spirit directs you. It was a good exercise. One that I continue to practice to this day.

      Living an InSpired life means being in rhythm with the universe, open to receiving, being aware and living in present moment.

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