Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich) wrote FDR’s speeches. It was Hill who wrote ~ the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Cool, huh?

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To understand what creates inspiration, you must understand what everyone means when they say you have to be happy or have strong emotions surrounding something to attract it.

To activate the law of attraction, you must be aware of the trance state you are in.

Here’s how it works:  there are only TWO states we are in at any given time: EGO or God consciousness.

EGO is often referred to as “Easing God Out” and in this place, we are in a perpetual state of deep fear and control.  Most of the time when people create a Goal list or write down what they want to have happen ~ they are in this state.  And, what happens is that – well actually – nothing.  Because in this state, there is a pretend connection with spirit, but in actuality, we are holding onto our desires in the state of EGO.

Once I had a client come to me frantic to start a relationship. She was convinced that she was ready and she was ready to convince me too. The truth is, if you’re trying to convince someone that you’re ready to use the law of attraction you’re probably not. You can’t attract your goals in a frantic state because you’re not in the right trance. We “Ease God Out” when we try to create from a place of frantic desire, blocking our potential to attract.

She had not allowed room for spirit to work with her, so her EGO trance was blocking her ability to attract.

Frequently by the time I see my clients, I’m met with a shrill voice that says “Buuuutt, I let GO already!”

Hmmmm, really?

We are all in a state called TRANCE.  The one I described above is the ego trance, but it comes with many names: scarcity, fear, anger, desperation… you get the idea. To get on the right track, you need to re-program your thinking and step out of the EGO trance.

I do a free monthly MP3 meditation available to my newsletter subscribers.  This month, November, the free download is about stepping into the TRANCE of spirit – which is all about attracting inspiration – hence the name of the meditation!

To step into it, you must center yourself.  And, those who are master manifesters, happen to be those who can step into this state instantly – that Trance is the God trance.

How important is it to belong?

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How the Spirits Can Help You with Your Life

Last year, my dear friend, Julie, was in dire straights. She had just been dumped by another guy, a powerful Hollywood agent who had, quite honestly, ignored her and her needs quite a bit.

She came to me and asked for help. Her pattern with men had been a miserable one. She met and married a rock superstar ten years prior, and their five-year marriage finally ended when he admitted that he’d been having an affair the entire time. For her, the worst of it was that there had been many others and she hadn’t known.

How could I not have known?

Julie lamented.

I shrugged. Whatever pattern you’re doing, it is in an attempt to heal something. So there is a good reason. If you’re dating cheaters, someone cheated in your history or had a fear of it. Julie shook her head. My parents are happily married – forty years happy! It can’t be that. I was referring to her mother’s mother.

What about your grandmother?

I didn’t know her. She died when I was three.

In that moment, I felt a powerful presence. It was Julie’s grandmother. Her message was clear: Don’t make the mistakes I did.I went on to relay to Julie the message from her grandmother. She had married a man who cheated on her for her entire life. She didn’t want that to be Julie’s fate. She wanted Julie to have better.

I have no way of finding out if this is true.

I said. What is important is that you keep leaving the cheaters, and your grandmother never did.

In my experience in working with multi-generational healing like this, the inherited challenge always skips a generation. If you’re lucky enough to have a grandparent alive, find out their story. Often we are playing out the healing that they never could do.

Julie made this connection instantly, but she wanted to be in a relationship. She pointed to the Divine Love Intention Candle Kit that sat behind me.

I guess I need that, don’t I?

I disagreed. If anything, the Healing Intention Kit would be more appropriate to quickly clear the remnants of this pattern.

In the reading, Julie’s grandmother gave her permission to no longer have to work on healing this family wound. It was done. She was proud of Julie for leaving a situation that was intolerable. As a result, she told Julie to find a man who would be dedicated to her.

This story has a wonderful ending. Julie agreed with me and worked with the Healing Intention Candle Kit, as well as her therapist. Six months later, a guy she had been friends with for over a decade phoned her. They had always been crossing paths, but the timing was never right…he in a relationship when she wasn’t and vice versa. This time, however, they were both free. In one phone call, he announced his true feelings for her. He’d loved her for years.

Twenty-four hours later, he was on a plane from Vancouver. They have not been separated since.

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BLessings

-Tori

Let’s talk law of attraction.

What you think about you bring about, right? Hmm, not always.

Here’s the key: you must EXPECT that the very thing you are focusing on will happen!

My friend, Katherine Woodward Thomas, in her book, Calling In The One, terms it “holding the high watch.”

Years ago, when I needed $3,000 desperately to pay my bills, I began my journey into this work. I wrote out checks for all my bills, put them in the envelope, stamped them and put them on my table. I had set my intention to draw in this money, and then I prepared for its arrival.

Someone asked me where I was going to get this imaginary cash.

I replied, “From wherever it is now.”

And it did arrive…thanks to an intention I had set months prior.

I had referred a friend of mine to a lucrative speaking and consulting assignment. I had not heard anything, so I completely forgot about it. But the day after I placed my checks out to be paid, a check arrived for $3,100. My friend had gifted me 10% of her job!

I just EXPECTED something to happen. And this is the secret I want to share with you.

What are you expecting today? Whatever it is, prepare for it. Do everything you can to get ready!

Imagine, for a moment, expectant parents. They have just learned to expect their first child…they’re very happy. What do they do after the news? They start to get the baby’s room ready. Why? Because they’re in EXPECTATION of the child. They don’t wait until the baby arrives to prepare the baby’s room.

It’s called expecting, because the arrival is imminent.

Are you starting to catch my drift?

As you probably know, I recently launched my online store, ToriHartman.com. Part of my intention in creating my products was to serve as daily reminders for my customers to EXPECT miracles. My products are tools that support the arrival of your intentions.

To manifest the life of your dreams, you must be in harmony with your expectations.

Get into harmony with the belief that what you desire is already in the bag. And if you choose, my products will serve as daily reminders. May the law of attraction be with you!

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Blessings

-Tori

I just got a stack of self-help books today. I review for my spiritual gardening site, Blessed Gardens. They’re sitting right there on my table. And there, I presume, they will stay for a while.

I’m just not in the mood.

Don’t get me wrong. I love self-help books. I’m in the business of self-help. But sometimes, when I’m feeling under the weather, such books make me feel worse….like I should be scrambling to fix my life rather than sit and feel my feelings.

My Creative Director, Kristen, and I were talking about it yesterday. Sometimes the best course of action is dive into great fiction or see a movie and simply let go.

Yes, this is coming from a person who touts intention and focus and enlightenment. 

But have you ever noticed that the moment you let go, the moment you throw up your hands, that’s when the answer appears?

It’s much the same with manifesting. The real key to manifesting is in the intensity prior to letting go. It’s the time when the trapeze artist has let go of the handle bar, swings in mid-air, and in the most magnificent show of faith, spins in the hands of partner with perfect timing.

Can you imagine being caught? That is the magic of intention…the power to trust Spirit.  And the only way to achieve it is to let go and completely trust that everything you have done to this point has prepared you to make your best performance.

And this is when you are completely breathtaking to behold. It is in the moments of vulnerability that we give others that chance to share who we are with them.

It is in that delicious mid-air spin with Spirit that we can connect.

Consider the flip side. You let go and fall to the net below. You bounce a few times and climb back up to reposition yourself. 

Fear or faith?  The first choice brings you back to faith’s door, the other to Spirit. 

I’m in mid-spin today. When I catch Spirit, I’ll swing with it and land on the other side with a thirst for knowledge. Then, with greater faith, I’ll reach for one of my amazing new self-help books. 

I was interviewed on a conservative radio program, and then, on a liberal radio program. Same day. Same question.

Who will our next president be?

“You’re psychic,” they say. “Tell us your prediction.”

Now, for some folks, the pressure would be on. Nerves, you know?

“It doesn’t really matter all that much, does it?” came my reply. And I meant it.

Whoever is sworn into office in January 2009 is going to have the toughest four years of his life. This is not some mild pickle we’re in. An entire nation has lost morale. There is a general pallor that has shaded over people. The planet is rebelling.

And I’m supposed to step up and be positive?

As a nation, we’re in a situation akin to standing on the beach before a tsunami or thinking Hurricane Katrina is just a passing shower. Energetically, a storm’s a-brewin’.

So, what do you do?

Understand that the planet is like a person. It has been warning us for a while.

Ever notice that when you don’t get a lesson it just keeps on coming? I know that’s true for me. If I don’t want to see something, I can very effectively stick my head in the sand. And it works! Really well. For a while.

We can’t do that anymore. We can’t blame one person in one office. We can’t possibly believe that any one person is going to change the tide. It has to be a whole mess of us. The whole lot. When you hear folks, like Joe Vitale, say meditate – do it. Immediately, we have to start imagining a better world and creating it.

Visualize peace and security. Bless the president…whoever it is. Let’s stand for something again.

It doesn’t matter who our next president is going to be.

Remember, we have set up our leaders to be poker players. There is no way we can read what is really going on behind the façade. It’s time to stop the don’t-blame-me-I-voted- for-so-and-so game and face our mess. We have four years of clean-up ahead of us. Yes, all of us.

When the tsunami hit or Katrina was in full force or the towers were in rubble, I can pretty much guarantee not ONE person was concerned about the President of the United States. That came later, after survival and shock.

Then we began to place the blame, because it’s not as frightening as the realization that something so devastating can happen randomly. It’s easier to blame than to sit with the pain and loss. It’s easier to blame than to think we had done something bad to deserve tragedy.

Ask anyone who worked for the Red Cross during Hurricane Katrina, and they’ll tell you that Wal-Mart trucks carrying free supplies reached the victims before our own government.

Here’s another risk. Ready?

We choose our lessons, but not how we will learn them. Want patience? You’ll encounter long lines. And the list goes on. No one prays for a disaster. People pray or wish for things, but sometimes, the road there is uncomfortable.

I knew a woman who prayed for a happy marriage, and her husband left her. Now, after going through hell and back over that loss, she is finally happily married.

The moral? We create what we need. Think long and hard about what we have created.

My thoughts? Our planet is crying out in pain. We may not have “started” it, but with knowledge comes responsibility.

Let’s all begin to pray for love and unity. That is the way we find one another again after a disaster. Let’s not be attached to the person in the White House. Let’s be attached to love and healing.

So we’ll all wake up on a Wednesday this November and find ourselves with a new regime. No matter which lever you pull, make a firm commitment to be in this together. All of us. Then, whoever is in the White House rolling up his sleeves can turn to us to for help.

Namaste.

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-TORI

Faith and Hope

I met someone the other day at a party who was in so much pain, it radiated from his core.

His mother had been a cult leader in the 1970s and today, he does not believe in psychics or healers or anything that can’t be proven. I understand the skeptics. To be honest, I’ve been one myself.

I’m the reluctant psychic, the person who never knows if “it” will work every time I sit down to do a reading. (But it always does.)

To explain this, you have to understand that I’ve spent much of my life desperately trying to hide this “gift” that I have. Because of personal insecurities, I never wanted to invite challenge from the skeptics.

So, of course, the week I started reading professionally, I was hanging out with a few actor friends, and one guy got wind of my new career and stared me down.

“What makes you so qualified?” he asked.

There I was…put on the spot…a deer in the headlights.

He shook his head, “Do you really believe this shit?”

I was terrified. What was I doing? Did I really believe it? Then, a calm came over me. A little voice said, be honest, tell the truth.

“Not really,” I responded.

It caught him off guard, but not for long. “Then how can you do this crap?”

“I don’t know,” I told him. “I don’t really believe it, I just know it.”

“That doesn’t make sense,” he responded. His arrogance was annoying.

“Most things don’t.” I stated as I leaned toward him. “You know what doesn’t make sense?” I asked. “What doesn’t make sense is that you’re an arrogant a**hole, and you’re going to be really famous for being an arrogant a**hole.”

I ran into him about a year ago. He’s a celebrity now. And yes, his character is a big, arrogant…you get the idea.

The only thing I can say for this guy is that he’s not afraid and never was. He’s confident.

But when I think of the guy I met at the party, he’s confrontational and afraid.

There is a BIG difference between these two people. One is scarred by his past. The other is congruent within himself.

Where am I going with this?

Well, the guy from the party thinks all psychics are bogus. He has all kinds of reasons for this. When I told him that he had a right to his opinion, he replied that it was reality, that he was rooted in reality.

What I find so sad is that the only way he can deal with his family scarring is to overcompensate the other way and completely deny the presence of anything he can’t prove.

It’s obvious that it’s about his mother, but he can’t see it. Ironically, as his mother converted hundreds of thousands of people to follow her channeled message, the one person who lacked faith was her own offspring.

My faith has gotten me through some pretty rocky times lately, and honestly, I do not know how anyone can survive without faith.

Family scarring is powerful stuff, and I’ll be writing more about it. Living without faith is a lonely business, and I can’t see living this way.

My message to you? Believe. Believe in something magical. And if you have trouble with it, think of something that inspires you. Right now, before you forget, make a list of ten things that inspire you. If you can’t think of 10, write five, or even, two.

Faith is the only thing that is real to me.

Pet Peeve

Ready?

My pet peeve is the hard-sell.

A few months ago, my friend Morey offered me a chance to buy a table at one of his networking meetings. It was $100 for the night, and we “sponsors” would spend the evening introducing ourselves and our products.

Okay. So the yuck factor was high for me on this. I am a psychic. Can you imagine my pitch? Hi, I’m a psychic…I work with people to transform their lives…blah blah blah.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I love what I do, and I find it very rewarding. I love my clients. I’m very blessed. But typically, I’m not someone who sells my wares at fairs or carnivals. I’ve designed my products to work personally with the people who own them. The people who are attracted to my work are driven to create something extraordinary, and they find the key in an Intention Candle or piece of Chakra Vortex Jewelry.

That said, I let Morey sell me. I truly didn’t want to do this, but he’s a master salesman.

So there I was at this event, and every city slicker was there. I mean, we had the snake oil salesmen and people offering the LAST CHANCE at property. Then there was the guy who would mentor you for about $10,000, because if you really wanted transformation, you could ONLY work with him.

Finally, the slickest of the slick got up to address a packed room. The pitch began…sad childhood, no money, worked his way through college, lost everything in the dot.com crash, wife left him, etc.

Then, he found a mentor who showed him the way out.

After two hours (no kidding), he started the hard-sell: If you want change, it’s not eight thousand dollars… not four thousand…no, for you who sign up tonight, and there are only 15 slots, it’s eight hundred dollars…that’s right…how much is all this worth?Half the room had left by that time, and then the lights came up, and I was astonished to see 15 people rushing to the table to sign up for this mentorship program.

I turned to Morey.

“What the…?” I asked. “It feels really phony.”

“But it works,” came his reply.

No. I thought. No. You missed the point. Who cares if it’s effective if it’s not ethical and you’re snowing people?

Don’t get me wrong…I really admire some of the hard-sell gurus. I love their work, but I don’t believe that anyone has my answer.

And when I tell people that the hard-sell thing doesn’t feel right, they hold up a hand and say, “If you want to sell your products, you have to ask people for their business.”

But I think there comes a time when we have to say no to the hard-sell. Customers are smart, and it’s only a matter of time until they catch on.

For example, in the late 1980s, I traveled the country and did personal appearances in department stores. I had written a fashion style book and often spoke to crowds about the latest trends. Within a few years, every clothing label began sending out reps and calling them “special appearances.” That killed that business.

Later, I was invited by a major gossip magazine to give negative commentary about the way people dressed. I couldn’t do it. I don’t like hurting people, even people I don’t know.

My editor was aghast, “What? We could sell thousands of copies of the book!”

Maybe. But it wasn’t authentically who I was. It wasn’t me.

So maybe the guy who sold those 15 people had no problem sleeping at night. People sell out every day.

But don’t do it. Don’t sell who you are. Stand for something, or you will stand for nothing. Be true to you. Be a person of honor. It still matters.

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Blessings

-Tori