Shifting Stories with Beca Lewis

While the Soleis traveled as slowly as possible, the Eos was moving as quickly as it could. So fast sometimes, Meg wished that it would slow down. Like Stryker, she didn’t like ships either, and for many of the same reasons.

Mostly, she hated the rocking and rolling. No matter what she did, she constantly felt sick. Everyone tried to help. But nothing they suggested worked for her. Finally, after watching Meg suffer and grow weaker each day, Tarek gave her permission to transform into a raven and fly along with them. Sometimes Wren and Silke joined her, and watching them circle and swoop above the ship made everyone feel better.

It felt so glorious that Meg almost didn’t care that turning into a raven was the only thing she could shapeshift into now. And at night, and in the dark, she couldn’t do anything at all. She was no longer the shapeshifter that she had once been.

Now she wasn’t sure what she was. But at least it seemed as if she was useful. Although she had been told what happened on Lopel, she had no memory of it.

The last thing she remembered was standing with the rest of the rebels, supporting the Mages. They were cloaking every person on the Islands to hide them from the Warrior Monks and Sawdi. The next thing she knew, she found herself lying on a cot in the main room, covered in blankets, and surrounded by her friends.

The story they told was hard to believe. She had been enveloped in fire. Karn pushed her into the circle of Mages. Then a beam of light shot out from her into the sky, turning the Warrior Monks away.

Read Discovered, the third book in The Chronicles of Thamon , and fall in love with these characters that choose friendship, goodness, and faith in each other in order to defeat evil.

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Your imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. —Albert Einstein

Now that you have the basic tools, are you ready to get started?

Each week has a different focus, but the imagination exercises each day will remain mostly the same.

Try not to get behind, but if you do, it’s okay.

This is not a race. The turtle always wins because it stays focused.

If you get your rational mind out of the way when you start these exercises, you can complete each day’s assignment within five to ten minutes.

Don’t worry. Let go. Imagine.

Be like the White Queen!

“I can’t believe that!” said Alice.

“Can’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.”

Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Every day we are going to be like the White Queen. She was quite the Imagination Master, wasn’t she?

She was continuously trying to get Alice to become an Imagination Master, too. In this passage from Alice In Wonderland, the White Queen gives Alice a task.

Imagine six impossible things before breakfast.

So we are going to follow her advice but do it differently.

We are going to imagine seven impossible things every day for the next seven weeks.

Except, it doesn’t have to be before breakfast, or even all at one time.

You can fill out your daily imagination forms as you go through your day, or all at once. Whichever way works best for you.

Personally, I like to sit down first thing in the morning and write out everything that comes to mind. When I allow my thoughts to flow, not judge them, I can complete this assignment within five minutes.

Perhaps it will take you longer at first, but pay attention. Is that part of yourself being like Alice and saying, “I can’t believe that.”

Remember we are not trying to be rational or use our intelligence, we are imagining!

By the way, here’s how you can tell if you are in your rational mind as you do this.

When what you are writing doesn’t feel impossible. Or it feels as if everything you imagine is stupid. Or silly. Or a waste of time.

Come on, let go.

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An evil tyrant. A rebellious uprising. Will her destiny prevent total destruction… or send everyone to their doom?

Her gift of shapeshifting may have disappeared, but Meg Porta won’t let her new home perish. Clinging to a slender thread of hope, she’s forced to fulfill her mysterious part in an ancient prophecy. But when the three leaders of a dark religion each make violent plays for ultimate power, Meg and her allies are plunged into a race to destroy the source of their magic.

Sailing hard from the rebel islands to be the first to reach the remote mountain location, Meg can’t shake the feeling she’s about to repeat a terrible mistake. But with a powerful genius leading an army of undead warrior monks intent on taking her down, she’ll have to seize her foretold place in history or face total obliteration.

Will Meg claim her fated role and save the world from falling to malevolent tyranny?

Discovered is the third book in the fast-paced Chronicles of Thamon fantasy series. If you like daring heroines, twisted tyrants, and selfless sacrifice, then you’ll love Beca Lewis’s gripping tale

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Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time.

I choose, therefore I am.

—Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe

I wanted to change the world. But I found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

—Aldous Huxley

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.—John F. Kennedy

At the end of each week, I have included a chance to do an I Choose sheet. If you feel no resistance at all to what you have discovered you want, then you could skip this step.

However, that is not likely, is it?

It is our resistance that keeps us stuck.

Sometimes that resistance is so apparent we are well aware of it. Other times, it hides in the shadows, and we only know it’s there because of the symptoms of lethargy, anger, and discouragement, to name a few.

I could spend a long time talking about resistance, but instead let me send you to Steven Pressfield’s book, The War Of Art.

Although he is talking about resistance in terms of an artist, it applies to every one of us, all the time.

So, let’s assume that you have some resistance to living a better life, whether it is buried or noticeable.

Doing this extremely simple-to-do I Choose exercise works what others might call miracles.

One of those miracles happened to me many years ago. My husband had left and I had no idea that was going to happen. I came home from a trip and he was gone.

I had no idea what to do. All my get up and go, had got up and left, too.

I was struggling to pay bills, feed my family, and support a home that I had just purchased.

I loved that house. I can still walk through it in my mind and tell you everything that was there because I designed the whole thing to be exactly how I wanted it to be.

I knew that I needed to sell it because I couldn’t afford the payments, but I resisted that idea until one day my oldest daughter, who was in her last year of high school said, “Mom. Sell the house. You have no other choice.”

I knew she was right. I had to do it. So I put into practice all the things that we are talking about in this book.

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A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure:

“Open up, Hannah,” Beru urged me as we ran. “Accept the help that is being offered to you. Breathe it in.”

I was panting so hard I had no breath to ask her what she meant by help. I was nearing my last ounce of energy, and neither Beru nor Ruta seemed tired at all. They definitely knew something I didn’t know.

“You don’t know what I am talking about?” Beru asked.

Up ahead I heard Ruta snort in derision. He was right. I was more than useless. I shook my head. No, I didn’t know what they were talking about.

“Feel it, Hannah, just as you did before you came here. Feel the forest. Feel the ground beneath your feet. Feel what they have to give you. Reach out. Let them in.” Then Beru, sweet little Beru with the beautiful face, yelled at me, “Do it. Do it now!”

I gasped in surprise and felt a bolt of energy rush in. I was no longer running on my own. I was moving with the forest, not through it.

I don’t know how long we ran. I lost all sense of time and surroundings. The forest around me blurred into a tunnel of green that flowed back the way we had come. In front of me, I could see Ruta moving, no, gliding, almost as if he wasn’t moving his legs at all. Behind me, I could feel Beru’s eyes effortlessly pushing me forward. There was no need for her to run forward and back to check on me. The three of us moved as one. It was glorious. I wanted it to last forever.

How much time passed I don’t know, and although I had no idea where we were, I could tell that we were moving upward.

Eventually, the world slowed down as we stopped running and began to walk instead. We were on a path. Not one created by Ruta moving through the woods, clearing the way. This path was like many of the trails my dad and I used to hike together in the mountains near our home. If I wasn’t walking with Ruta and Beru, I might have thought I was home again.

That notion was blasted from my mind as we crested a hill, and I saw what appeared to be a castle. Not what I expected at all. On the other hand, what was I expecting? If I was truthful with myself, I was hoping we were going to see Suzanne’s people, the Forest Circle, and I said as much to Ruta and Beru.

“Shh…,” hissed Ruta. “Are you crazy?”

At first, I was dumbstruck to hear Ruta say more than one word. Maybe he didn’t often talk because his voice did not match his appearance. Unless he was hollow, because that’s what he sounded like: a hollow stump.

When his block face darkened, I realized he could probably read my mind, and I was in trouble. What had happened to me? I didn’t usually think things like that about people. Or did I and I hadn’t noticed? My whole world was flipping upside down.

Read Shatterskin, the first book in The Return To Erda , and fall in love with these characters that choose friendship, goodness, and faith in each other in order to defeat evil.

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Imagination should be used, not to escape reality, but to create it. —Colin Wilson

Shall we begin? Let’s create a new reality together. But first, let’s talk about a few of the essential tools that you will be using in this course.

There are two of them that you might not have ever done before, or at least the way that we will be using them. So, let’s take a moment and talk about what they are and how to use them.

Quality Lists and I Choose sheets.

These two tools are invaluable, so don’t skip them!

Let’s start with quality words.

I know you know that thoughts are things, but using the concept of quality words, we are going to work backwards to that idea.

We are going to find the qualities of things, first, and then translate them back into things.

That means that the “things” in your life will more accurately reflect what you want after using this tool.

This includes everything from the shoes you are wearing to the people that you love.

Yes, I know people are not a “thing,” but they are a set of qualities, like everything that we see and experience.

However, to get us started, we won’t start with people. We’ll begin with easier things, like birds, trees, stones, flowers, and animals.

After that, people will be much easier to translate into qualities. Well, everything will be. You’ll see.

After a while, I hope that you will get into the habit of using quality words all the time, especially when you are looking for ways to make a decision or a shift in your life.

I promise that their use will make changes much easier, and the outcome more in alignment with what you desire.

However, for now, you are going to use them in your Imagination Mastery work and become an expert at using them.

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A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure:

Ruta moved through the woods faster than I thought possible. Beru was even quicker. She kept circling back behind me and then running ahead of Ruta, and then coming back to me. I was running faster than I had ever run before, so how she was doing that was a mystery.

There was no path as far as I could see. Ruta and Beru just ran, and things moved out of their way. Or at least I thought that was what was happening. I didn’t see any movement. Instead, there was an opening wherever Ruta went, and I followed Ruta through it.

After what felt like two days but was probably less than an hour, I couldn’t run anymore. I tripped over my foot and fell flat on my face again for the second time in one day. I hoped it would be the last. Ruta had kept on running, but the next time Beru circled back she found me lying on the ground trying to breathe.

She clicked her fingers together, and a moment later Ruta was there.

“I don’t think she can go on right now, Ruta. Let’s stay here. We’re far enough from the clearing, and we can hide here until Hannah rests. Your friend has told us how much energy it takes to come through that portal. You need to rest.”

When Ruta turned his grumpy stern face to me, I burst into tears as I mumbled, “Thank you Beru, and I’m sorry, Ruta.”

I caught a look pass between them, and I swear I saw Ruta’s block face soften. I was too tired to ask what friend they were talking about.

When Beru placed a mound of leaves under my head and covered me with some mysterious cloth she pulled out of her pocket, I fell asleep within seconds. The last thing I heard before entering emptiness was Suzanne’s voice saying it was safe, for now. That was enough for me. Suzanne hadn’t deserted me.

Read Shatterskin, the first book in The Return To Erda , and fall in love with these characters that choose friendship, goodness, and faith in each other in order to defeat evil.

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The man who has no imagination has no wings. —Muhammad Ali

Here is the question you might, and probably should be, asking yourself.

Why bother with learning how to be an Imagination Master? What practical use could being a master of imagination be in the “real” world, or daily life?

Perhaps you are wondering why you would waste the next few months of your life practicing how to imagine.

I mean, after all, what will your friends and family say? Perhaps they would ask you if there aren’t more productive ways to spend your time.

And then there is always the chance that, like me, imagining is something you were supposed to stop doing. Or at least hide that you are doing it.

I can’t tell you how many times a teacher, or parent, would catch me staring into space and ask me, “Are you daydreaming again?”

Yes. Yes, I was, and it was fun!

After all, I was a reader of fairy tales and science fiction, and it all seemed so marvelous. It seemed so much better than sitting behind a desk in a square room.

I asked myself what it would be like if I were a fairy in the forest? Or if there was a unicorn waiting for me to ride home.

They were the imaginations of a little girl. What good were those imaginations to me, other than to make life more fun?

And what good will being a master of imagination be for you, or me, as an adult?

Sure, now that I am long past grown-up, I can turn my imaginations into stories, and then books, and that seems like a practical thing to do after all.

But that is only one small use for it. It doesn’t answer the question of why you, or I, would want to be an Imagination Master at any age over ten.

There is such a good reason that it is almost shocking.

Especially since we have been taught that the world is only what we see or experience through our five senses. That we need to grow up and make a living. That success can be measured.

What if that was all wrong?

Imagine this. It is!

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A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure:

Still holding my head, I started to follow the bird that looked like Lady into the forest until I realized what I was doing.

I was following something into somewhere without questioning what was happening. It was like getting into a strange car with an unknown person.

Would I ever do that? No. Even if the person looked like someone that I knew? Well, perhaps. But birds look almost alike, don’t they? So it wasn’t as if I could tell Lady from another bird just like her.

Almost too late I saw the bird fly back towards me, bent on either knocking me over again or pulling my hair. Either way, I wasn’t going to let that happen. I dropped to the ground and curled into a little ball and stayed there.

Probably looked pretty stupid, but at least I didn’t get my hair pulled. I lifted my head just a bit and saw the bird sitting on the ground in front of me. I got the distinct impression that she was not happy with me for thinking that she looked the same as other pileated woodpeckers that looked like dinosaurs or dragons.

Birds, animals, insects could tell the difference between each other, why couldn’t I? She turned her face sideways and looked directly into my eyes. Something about those eyes were familiar, and at that moment I knew for sure that it was Lady from Earth who was sitting there. I reached out to touch her head, and she pulled her head back and gave me a look that I wouldn’t forget. No touching. “Okay, okay. So you’re Lady. Now, what is this place?”

I took a big breath in and smelled the woods. It smelled like the forests back home. Loamy, cool, a city of insects and animals mostly invisible unless you lived there and learned to see. Before stepping into the portal, I had been learning a little about the forest behind our house. Learning more about this forest was going to be fun. Maybe it would give me a clue as to where I was, assuming I wasn’t dreaming. Didn’t that voice say, Erda?

Screwing up my courage, I decided it was time to explore. I stood up, and for the first time since I tripped and fell on my face, I looked down at myself and screamed.

Who was this person? Was it me? What looked like my hands felt the clothes that I had on. They were not what I was wearing when I was standing in the door of the portal. I had been wearing what I always wear, like most girls my age: skinny jeans, t-shirt, and at the last minute I had grabbed my favorite soft sweater.

Suzanne had told me I couldn’t bring anything other than what I was wearing through the portal. Everything else would dissolve in the transfer. What I needed would be provided for me.

What she had neglected to tell me was that I would arrive in different clothes. I ran my hands over whatever it was that was covering my legs. They felt almost like the leggings I wore in the winter and looked like the ones that woman by the tree had been wearing.

However, they felt completely different from anything I had worn before.

These leggings were still soft like winter leggings, but much stronger. They were as tight as my skin but so lightweight that if I hadn’t seen that I was wearing them, I would have thought I had nothing on. Scary thought, that. The shirt was the same material as the leggings. Close to my body, but soft and comfortable.

As a reader of strange stories, I wondered if I was caught up in a dream, like in one of my books. Ones where people ended up in bodies that weren’t theirs. Because not only were the clothes weird, so was I. Older. Not twelve anymore. The tight clothing proved that. Not me. At least not the me that lived on Earth.

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Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time.

End Imposter Syndrome, Overthinking and Perfectionism and Do What YOU Want

Do you worry that you are not as good as everyone else?

Have past experiences led you to doubt your abilities?

Do you try too hard and obsess over details in case you mess up?

Most of our negative beliefs are untrue. We hold on to stuff from our past and allow it to spoil our happiness.

Chapter Five focuses on Mindset and how the way we think and the words we say can impact our confidence.

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