Soul Impressions Of Dr. Liara M. Covert’s “Self Disclosure — Changes From Within”

Is it a cooincidence Kit-Kat wants to snuggle each time I settle on the sofa with this book?  (That cat almost NEVER comes near in the daytime.)

The feline senses your expanding positive energy.  He knows something big is up.

This hardcover book is physically beautiful, feels like a precious gem in my hands.  Every time I see it I smile and feel great, knowing what treasures lie within.

You constantly decide what matters to you. You value aesthetics.

It’s obvious a person of whole happiness wrote Self Disclosure.  Dr. Covert laughs at things like lost luggage or mixed-up driving directions.  She guides towards blessings and opportunities in everything one might label “negative.”  Can I learn to do that too?

Learning and expanding is what you are all about.  You just need to re-focus what you already know at Soul level.

Wow – deep!

Love is deep.  Infinite.   The root of all creation.

The book is changing my life.

YOU are changing your life, with higher energy you always sensed but had long forgotten how to access.

I sometimes feel uneasy reading the book.

Bravo!  That’s Soul growth in action.  Love is on the move.

Yes, I guess.  Then, at other times my Soul is so bursting with big chunks of joy and happiness while reading it, I can actually see and feel light bouncing from my skin through my walls out past the leaves on my trees to the fields, cities and universe beyond.

You ARE light.

Yes, we are all beings of light — I do tend to forget that.

I’d thought I’d pretty-much seen everything, but Self Disclosure’s format is like nothing I’ve ever experienced — truly original on multiple levels.  (I’m pseudo-copying the format here, with apologies to Dr. Covert.)    😉

So many levels of goodness are going on at any given moment, so much more is happening at once than you can ever imagine.

Yes!  Self Disclosure allows me to tap into things about myself I wasn’t even aware of.  It’s a book I keep coming back to again and again to guide me in all levels of my life.  I  seem to reap new meaning from it at different times.

Your levels of awareness are increasing as you allow them to.  Lessons are repeated until you finally get them.

Wow!

Did I mention that at the end of each of the 60+ sections in this almost-300-page book covering every aspect of human-ness you can imagine, Dr. Covert offers additional gifts via comprehensive open-ended exercises to delve into truest Soul?  Therein the tools to apply the concepts to our daily lives?

No you didn’t mention, but I remember you getting closer to your core through the exercises,  (when you actually did them.)   🙂

Plus, tons and tons of drop-dead gorgeous quotes woven into the flow of the book, snippets of wisdom from 100+ people?

Ah yes, those too.

I was surprised at such a lengthy section about romantic love and intimacy towards the end of the book.

Different sections will resonate more with different readers at different times.

One question:  Was I selfish to not leave the book for my sister in Canada this past summer, tucking it back into my suitcase to bring back to Texas because I hadn’t yet finished reading it?

Ah, there you go judging yourself, Grasshopper. Worry is not the true you.   Each choice on your path takes you right where you need to be, each a learning experience on the journey to highest self.

Thanks, I feel ‘way better now.

Ahhh, happy and jolly.

Anything else?

To sum up, I’d say Self Disclosure is more of an experience than a book  — an investment in Soul, really.   A gift you give yourself and others around you, thus the world.

I humbly agree.

Will others like it?   Will it change their lives too ?

Duh.

Oh yeah, right.  Silly questions.

There are no silly questions.  Only silly Jannies.

Now YOU are being silly.

Well, yes, I do have a sense of humor too.

Speaking of which, the section on Laughter I fairly flew through.  I almost felt as if I’d written it.  I wish the whole world could read it, could read the whole book.    I have read nothing that compares to Self Disclosure.

Soul knows what resonates.

Right-ho!  I feel enlightened.

Then go do your dishes!  You have reframed where you are.

Hey, who ARE you, anyway?   What will my readers think?

Well, they’ll just have to experience Self Disclosure and decide for themselves, won’t they?

Of course!

But wait.  They need to know where they can acquire the book.

Oh yeah.  We almost forgot.  They can follow any of the Self Disclosure links above or the following one to Dr. Covert’s website — the home page of Dream Builders Australia,  her blog-journal.

Yes, Dr. Covert publishes a new blog post daily.  She is amazingly prolific.  Teacher.  Healer.  What a gift to mankind.

And that other thing that’s happening this coming Sunday evening at 6:00 p.m.  EST??  Yep, November 29th...  ??

Oh yes!  Dr. Covert will be interviewing me (Jannie) at this link on Blog Talk Radio. She encourages you guys to “Call in to share your own stories or how you resonate with Jannie’s soul journey.  This show invites everyone to be more honest with the self about inner passion and what is involved in more unconditional self-acceptance. Are you ready for self-disclosure?”

Whoo-hoo!!

Whatever is Jannie gonna wear for her radio appearance ?!?

Again with the humor!!  Well, my blue chiffon, of course.  And my orange felt beret, the one with the green dingle balls.

Why didn’t I think of that?

Um… you’re too busy thinking about Soul growth to concern yourself with the frivolities of fashion?

True!

First Pictures With My New iPhone 3GS

A Kelly-Mommy afternoon at the Texas State Capitol.

Foliage starting to hint that it’s finally fall in Austin.

Thanksgiving creatures.

Chanced upon Santa this past Sunday at our grocery store’s holiday kick-off.  Talk about a perfect day for Kelly to wear her red sparkly shirt — a shirt which was actually a long-ish dress on her when she was 4  (but I’ll have to spank my laptop’s buttocks to retrieve the pics of her at age 4.  Naughty-naughty laptop with power problems.)

Tooth fairy came to our house again Monday — 3 teeth gone now.

Picnic lunch at school.

(The children help plant and maintain the courtyard’s garden and aviary. Pretty cool, eh?!)

So there you have them — some of my first iPhone pics.  Not atrocious quality, I think.  Do you?

Really wish I could set the pics so you could click-enlarge them to 1024 x 768 pixels, but something got lost in translation in my recent WordPress upgrade and I dasn’t know how to enable click-enlarge anymore, boo hoo.

Oh well, I’ll get it or another similar trick figured out soon — which will make your life complete, as I know you plan your every day and night around my next jpeg.   😉

Sunday Thought: Laughter Is Good

this blogger’s daughter at age 3

Okay, if that Lance character can do a Sunday Thought For The Day I can copy such genius, right?

Here’s MY amazingly original thought for the day:  Laughter is good.

Yep, that’ll totally guarantee my place in the quote books!

Thank God (literally) for laughter ’cause I was a bit blue recently over a couple of things, one of which has actually ended up as a super-excellent Learning Experience in the recording studio.  And the other a reminder that by putting my song videos out in cyberspace I open myself up to all kinds of opinions and comments, but ones which can only hurt my feelings if I let them.

Wanna know how I kicked my blues?!   I Can Has Cheeseburger where I hadn’t been in a while, to laff and laff and laff at all those lolcats and Looks-Likes.  My blueness not only lifted, but my buttock-kickingness surged forth and I faced my fears and made all those calls I needed to for the school fund-raiser.  (I’ve taken on a lot again this fall.)  But I’m fine now.  Fine, I tell you! FINE!!! It’s all in the mindset.  Nothing but smooth sailing ahead, whoo-hoo.

That’s all I had to do — laff and laff and my cares melted away like magic.  That ever happen to you, laughter just melting your blues away?

I do believe laughter is programmed into our hearts and souls to heal us.  Katie West with her Levity Project is definitely onto something I want to stay part of.

And now, friends and neighbors…

More “I Can has Cheeseburger?” lolcats for you.  Hmmn, wonder why these next two appeal to me so?  🙂

I like this one below too, surprisingly non-directly-beer-related.

(Cold beer can be awful good with a burger, tho.)    🙂

btw, if you haven’t yet read Lance’s current Sunday Thought For The Day, I strongly suggest you go over and not only read it, but eat, drink, sleep and breathe it.  I know I will!

xo

What To Do When The Power Goes Out

Wednesday a big storm knocked out our power from 6:30 to 9:30. p.m.

After the initial shock of no t.v., computer or microwave meatballs wore off, we tried conversation — yes, actual human-to-human interaction (weird, I know).  It felt kinda neat, like we were pioneers or cave people or something.   We were even reading books!  I’d heard of books.  They are quite lovely.

As thunder bullied, lightning taunted and water flooded our garage again, oy (Jim’s working on a new drain,)  we roasted “spider dogs” * on a screwdriver over 5 candles.   I ate four, ’cause the potentially life-or-death emergency called for stored up motherly Meat Power!

As a little kid I loved storms too.  Candles.  Sandwiches.  Beer.  Ahhh, good family times sitting around the kitchen watching the light show back on the hill, we kids always a little scared, but Mom’s ever-present quiet smile reassuring us we were safe.

How ’bout you?  Any power outage or storm stories to share?

Ever been camping during a storm?

Ever been hit by lightning?

Ever eat a spidie dog?

* A spider (spidie) or “octopus” dog is a wiener you slice the ends into the shape of  +signs.  (I did a bad job of cutting those in the dark.)  When sliced correctly the ends curl up real cool-like during roasting.

Nothing but the finest of delicacies for my family!

And now, everybody —  to the tune of Spider Man, sing…

Spidie dog, spidie dog…
Straight from a cow, not from a hog.
Can you munch them?  Listen man,
You can munch them from a frying pan.
Life is a great big hang-up.
Wherever there’s a hang-up
You’ll find some spidie dogs.

For all your hotdog purposes, I recommend these…

Ridiculously Green — Austin’s “Ladybird Lake” Hike & Bike Trail

Kelly started happily back to school Monday.   (Yes, happily — she adores her school.)  And I started happily back to my morning running / walking, buttocks-blasting routine here in good old friendly Austin, Texas — U. S. of A.

I took these snaps Monday and Tuesday along my usual 3-mile stretch of the trail (Click-enlarging seems to really sharpen them.)

(Kayakers afar, not ridiculously colorful waterfowl.)

Yes, this is where I get to walk! For free!!! Any day I want, between Park curfew hours of 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Why is it at a St. Pat’s Day party all that green clothing makes me want to barf, yet the green of nature only makes me happy and happier?   (And no, I don’t mean green beer barf potential.)  🙂

The city runs through our 10.2 mile trail along Ladybird Lake, which used to be called, but a lot of us still and probably forever will call — Town Lake.

This lake is part of a series of lakes formed by dams — lakes which are actually sections of the Lower Colorado River, which is not at all connected to the Colorado River of Grand Canyon fame much further West.   I know, it’s a bit confusing, but stick with me.  Future posts will might explain more.

Notice some downtown buildings and their reflections hiding in the photo below?

Flowers run through our trail too! Tons of flowers.  My totally non-pro camera did a pretty good job of capturing a few blooms, I think.

Trumpet Honeysuckle?

Blue Plumbago

Mystery Flower (some kind of rose?)  It grows on a bush.

Here’s a trail map, which should excite you to no end. (It actually does show super-nice resolution upon a click, and ludicrous-great res with an additional click.)

And below —  a couple of the many park benches you’ll find me and my buttocks on (I hardly ever leave home without them.  My buttocks, that is.  Well, yes, I did once.  Leave them home, but that’s a whole other post.  Or series of posts.)

Ridiculously green, despite a general drought.  Ridiculously gorgeous.  I’m ridiculously lucky.  And blessed.  And happy to be alive.

And back to a school schedule.

I likes our Town Lake trail.  A lot.

And you? Have you hugged your nature lately?

(Zilker Park, beside The Trail.  Much more on Zilker to come.)

Footnote:  Notice I had to add an entire new category for this? … “Just Good Stuff.”   I might even go through my old posts and re-direct a few of them to J.G.S.

Stay tuned for more and more “Just Good Stuff” here in Downtown Funstertown!