I’m sure, by now, you’ve heard that phrase. This is not just some new age, woo woo platitude: Scientists have shown us that, at the atomic level, everything that appears solid is mostly empty space, or energy. In fact, your body is over 99.9999% empty space.

And because everything is energy, it just makes sense that awareness of that energy is a critical component of your success as the Deliberate Creator of your life. That is why I created the Energetics of Attraction Digital Learning Course. It provides you with powerful knowledge and practical tools for integrating the Human Energy Systems into the framework of the Law of Attraction.

But because it is a foundational level course, I provide only a basic overview of the chakra system. I do have a full chakra course planned for early next year. But what can you do if you’re ready to jump in and learn more about the chakras now?

Well, the DailyOm has an opportunity to learn from one of the best in the business. Sonia Choquette is a unique and extraordinary spiritual teacher, intuitive guide and masterful catalyst whose special gift is to energetically activate the highest vibration and free the authentic Spirit in everyone she meets. She is a NY Times bestselling Author and #1 Amazon.com bestseller and has also been a personal Intuitive advisor to such New Age Leaders as Louise Hay, Julia Cameron, Caroline Myss, Dr. Wayne Dyer, pop icon Billy Corgan and consultant to international business leaders.

The DailyOm is offering Sonia’s 10-week Chakra Balancing course for just $39.

When your chakras are healthy and clear, your life flows smoothly. When any one of them is sluggish, shut down, or its vibration is weak, the imbalance can show up as a physical symptom affecting a particular area of your body, or as an emotional or psychological symptom affecting your outlook.

And when one or more of your chakras are out of balance, your ability to attract and manifest your desires dramatically decreases.

With the Balancing Your Chakras on-line course, you will first come to understand the nature of each chakra. Second, you will learn how to tell if any of your chakras are in need of attention, and third, the course will show you simple behaviors you can do to work with each chakra to bring your life back into harmonious and healthy flow. The result is that you will start to feel more confident, energized, and peaceful-at every moment in any situation.

Some of the topics covered in this course include:

• Detailed information about each of the 7 chakras
• How to determine which chakras are need of help
• How to work with each chakra to bring your life back into harmonious and healthy flow
• How to balance your chakras
• Healing mudras for each chakra
• Corresponding colors and tones for each chakra
• Real life challenges we all face and how to use chakras to help
• How to read chakras
• Chakra exercises and visualizations
• 22 video clips that give you practical and in depth information how to work with your chakras

If you are ready to amp up your ability to attract your desires, this chakra balancing class is a great resource. Go check it out.

And if you’re interested in more specific information on how to integrate energetic awareness into the Law of Attraction, go sign up for the Energetics of Attraction Digital Learning Course. I’ve got a Recession Busting 1/2 off sale happening right now!

Here are a few of the headlines from this week’s financial news sources:

CNN wrote: Recession fear batters Wall Street: Stocks retreat on worries about corporate health amid the global economic slowdown.

ABC wrote: DHL Stamps Out 9500 jobs.

And here are the last three weekly “Vital Signs” headlines from Business Week:

• Weak Economy Weighs on Profits
• Employment Outlook Gets Gloomier
• Business Activity Shows a Deepening Recession

I think you get the picture.

Yes, there is a glimmer of hope. There is some light. But the vast majority of people are still focusing on what? …

That’s right: Negativity. Gloom and doom. Fear, doubt, and uncertainty.

As a Deliberate Creator, you have an unprecedented opportunity, right now, to take advantage of this environment.

Most people are focused on lack. And guess what are they experiencing in their lives?

Exactly. Lack, scarcity. They are watching money flow out of their lives. And as money flows out of their lives they focus on it, which amplifies the energy of lack and so more money flows out. It’s a vicious cycle.

But there is always balance in the universe. There has to be. And the money that is flowing out of people’s lives now - and there is a LOT of it - has to be going somewhere. That money doesn’t just vanish!

And the Deliberate Creators who are able to pull their attention out of the fear, doubt, confusion and chaos that is swirling around, and shift it to the abundance that is available will reap bountiful rewards in this turbulent time.

It happened during the Great Depression and it’s going to happen now. Except that now there are many more high vibration, highly conscious people with the potential to bring that higher level of consciousness to the process.

I recently released an audio program called: Release the Money Madness and Unleash YOUR Money Magic.

There is no cost for you to download Part 1 of the program. And when you do, you’ll discover exactly why this time of financial turbulence provides such an amazing opportunity for financial growth.

You’ll learn how the exclusion of Spirit from our financial interactions has a profound impact on all of our lives and the well-being of our planet.

You’ll learn why this time of crisis is an especially ripe moment for re-injecting sacredness into our relationship with money and why doing so will help take you to the next level of financial abundance.

You’ll learn how to leverage the knowledge that money is energy (you may have heard that statement, but have you ever been shown how to use that knowledge to enhance your financial situation? If not, you’ll definitely want to listen to this program).

And much more.

As I said, there is no cost for Part 1. Here’s why.

I’m using this program to try out the Pay it Forward model.

Basically, I am paying your way into part 1 of this audio program. I feel so strongly that everyone can benefit from this information, that I don’t want there to be anything in your way.

So go download Part 1 of Release the Money Madness and Unleash YOUR Money Magic right now:

Once you have listened to Part 1 you’ll have the opportunity to Pay it Forward. In the recording I tell you more about that opportunity, and why Paying it Forward is such an amazing tool for enhancing your own prosperity!

But for now, go get Part 1, listen to it and be inspired to THRIVE in this environment.

The thought that my daughter is just 6-months older than Franco kept poking up into my mind while I sat on the hard bench of the Catholic church waiting for the service to begin.

Questions came up: What if this happened to Ella? How would I react? What would I feel right now if it was Ella in that tiny casket? Could I handle it with the dignity and grace that Franco’s family was bringing? Why did Franco have to die? Why did a beautiful 4 ½ year old boy who brought such joy to his family and to the world have to die?

As if reading my mind – and probably the minds of many people in that church – the priest began his service in a surprising manner. He said that he didn’t have the answer. He said that he could stand up there at the service of the 95 year old grandmother and say that she had lived a “good, full, long” life. Why is her death “right” but not Franco’s?

But he couldn’t tell us “why” Franco had died.

Are there answers to that question? Of course there are.

You could say, “There is a reason for everything,” or “It was his time,” or “His death opened the possibility for those he left behind to grow and evolve,” or “Death is the natural flow out of life.” Or, as the priest said, “He is with God in heaven now.”

All of those may be true. But they are not The Truth. We just don’t know why a four year old has to die.

We just don’t know why thousands of people had to die during the attacks of 9/11.

We don’t know why babies are killed in wars.

We don’t know why anyone is killed in wars.

We don’t know why people are murdered.

We don’t know. We can’t know.

In the days following Franco’s funeral, I sat with the thought of Franco’s death and the priest’s acknowledgment that there are some questions that cannot be answered. And I began to play with the idea of letting go of the need for answers.

What if Franco just died and there is no reason, no answer? What if we are just meant to be with the experience and release the need for an answer?

I felt a huge surge of energy as that thought moved through me.

You see, we all have unanswerable questions about our own lives: Questions that occupy far too much of our time and energy.

For me, as an adopted child, the question that I have asked throughout my life is, “Why did my mother give me up for adoption.” And when I have been in a less positive space that question has been, “Why did my mother abandon me.” Or, “Why didn’t she love me.”

For the first 23 years of my life I sought the answer on my own. I would find an answer that felt “right” for a while, only to discover some new twist or hidden place inside of me that did not fit into that answer.

When I met my biological mother over 20-years ago, I began probing for information that could help me find THE answer. The question was no longer hypothetical. There was an actual person to ask and I was able to hear her answers. I could ask, “Why did YOU give me up for adoption?”

And in these last 20-years we have talked and cried and done healing work together, including rituals of forgiveness. And while her answers make “sense” to my mind, they can never satisfy the questioning of the wounded part within me.

That part of me, the wounded part within, will never hear THE answer because there is no answer that will satisfy that part of me.

The question itself is unanswerable.

How much time and energy have I have spent seeking that answer, the answer that does not exist? I could never even begin to measure how much of my life has been spent (wasted?) seeking that answer.

You could say that the answer to that question has been my holy grail. And now, with the help of a Catholic priest and a beautiful 4 year old boy, I see that the only way to find the grail is to release the question.

And I believe we all have a question like that.

You have a question that is unanswerable, a question that takes your time, saps your strength, and drains your energy.

Your question may be:

“Why did my father leave me?”

“Why was I abused?”

“Why didn’t my mother love me as much as my sister?”

“Why did my parents wish I was a boy?”

“Why did my brother have to die?”

You know your unanswerable question. You know the question that drives you, that directs your life. Are you willing to accept that this question cannot be answered?

To leave the question unanswered does not mean that you are denying what happened. It does not mean that you are denying the pain of the experience.

No. In fact, just the opposite. When you let go of the question, when you accept that the question can never be answered, you allow yourself to embrace the experience fully. You allow yourself to feel it fully. And in doing so, you open the doorway to the possibility of releasing the charge that this question and this past experience holds over you.

How much energy would you gain if you could release your unanswerable question?

As I move more fully into accepting that I can never answer the question, “Why did my mother give me up for adoption,” I feel more and more energy flowing into and through me. The energy I have been using to seek that answer, both consciously and unconsciously, is now available for other pursuits. Now, I can focus that energy in new and powerful ways.

So what is your unanswerable question?

And is it possible that the time has come for you to accept that this question can never be answered?

I hope so.

And I wonder, could it be possible that Franco died so that those of us left behind might begin to understand that some questions have no answers?

Or is that just another attempt to put an answer on what is essentially unanswerable?

You see, I’ve spent a long time being a personal growth junkie. For many years I felt that if I wasn’t in the midst of some massive, Earth-shattering, mind-blowing, intensive growth phase I must be doing something wrong.

The problem with that approach to personal growth, as I’ve slowly but surely come to realize, is that it doesn’t leave you with a whole lot of energy to function effectively in the “real” world. And that just doesn’t work.

I started exploring the idea of continuous improvement a couple of years ago with this article on Split Testing for Personal Growth.

And if you’ve listened to my new audio program, Release the Money Madness and Unleash Your Money Magic, you know that I encourage you to choose just one or two personal growth tools and focus on them for two to three weeks before tackling the next one.

Well now I just got an email from Mark Joyner, the creator of Simpleology: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want, which I highly recommend, by the way, that validates this idea of continuous improvement!

Mark has just released a new program called the Kaizen Club. If you don’t know what Kaizen means, Wikipedia says that:

Kaizen (改善, Japanese for “continuous improvement”) is a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life.

I was first introduced to the concept of Kaizen in the mid-80s when the financial services company I was working for decided to implement a Total Quality Management program and shoot for the Malcolm Baldridge Award.

We didn’t win, and the program was scrapped within 2-years after a cost of several million dollars! The culture in that company was just not open to the key ideas of Total Quality Management and Kaizen.

But even back then, through all my twenty-something angst and cynicism, I could tell that there was a hidden power in the seemingly simple concept of Continuous Improvement. I could sense there was a key to success, both in business and in life - although it would take me almost two decades to begin applying the concept in my own life and business.

Now Mark’s Kaizen Club makes it simple to apply the concept of Continuous Improvement in your life. I just wish he had created this program 20-years ago!

I’m going over there right now to sign up - the program just launched a couple of hours ago. I’m going to give it a try for the next week - there’s a 7-day trial. I’ll write up a full review then and let you know what I think. However, you might want to go sign up for the trial now because there are a couple of amazing bonuses that he may pull out of the bonus package.

And even if you don’t sign up for the Kaizen Club, consider how you can begin implementing the concept of continuous improvement in your life. What one small change can you make in your life that will, over the course of your lifetime have a significant impact?

Think about it and leave a comment below letting us know.

Something is different today.

This morning we woke up to hope.

This morning we woke up to a real sense of possibility and potential.

This morning we woke up knowing that real change is possible.

And this morning we know that each of us has the power to create that change.

Our votes and our voices were heard and counted. And our long desire for positive change has now begun to manifest.

Last night we, as a collective voice, voted for hope. We said yes to the positive change that is possible.
But our work, as Deliberate Creators, is just beginning!

In this election we have shown the world and proven to ourselves that we can remain focused on our desires.
In the previous elections our collective attention was fixated on what we did NOT want. In this election we had a true leader who inspired us to stay focused on what we DO want.

Now, our work is to continue to focus on our desires. Continue to focus on the possibilities and the positive change we want to see in our own lives and in the world.

Last night we took a huge step in the direction of positive change. And we must not fritter away the momentum that step has generated.

We now have a leader, a true leader, to inspire us. But he is just one person. He helped to rally us and focus our attention. But each and every one of us played a part in this historic event. And each and every one of us must continue to play a part.

Take a moment to feel the hope. And even if you did not vote for Obama, I encourage you to drop your guard for a moment and feel into that hope. It is there, for all of us. And it’s here, not because of Obama.

The hope is here because of you, and me, and each and every person who said “yes” to the dream of a more positive future.

Over 45 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of a dream. He had the dream “that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

Last night we took a big step towards making that dream come true.

But it is not the color of Obama’s skin that is most important or most remarkable. No, as Deliberate Creators, what is most important is the hope he has inspired in this country.

Feel that hope. Breathe it in. What does it feel like to look forward to the future, to have positive expectations of where we can go, what we can achieve, who we can become?

For too long we have been mired in the despair of hopelessness, seeing no light at the end of the tunnel. For too long we have been focused on all that was “wrong.”

Now there is a bright light calling to us.

But remember, no matter what happens, that light is not out there, in the world. No, that light is within you.
You are the light. You are the hope.

Last night you became the change you wished to see in the world!

Continue to be that light. Shine that light on the world. And watch, with amazement as your world, your life, reflects the change you are becoming.

So here is to hope. Here is to joy and light and positive expectation.
And here, most of all, is to the awakening and unfolding of YOUR greatness!

Over 80 people registered for the live call, and the recording has been downloaded many more times since Thursday. If you have not listened to it, you can download the MP3 recording here.

During the call, I mentioned the upcoming 6-week Energetics of Attraction Live Course. This 6-week teleseminar series will provide you with simple yet extremely powerful tools for navigating the turbulent waters we’re in right now.

This course is a totally revised version of the original Energetics of Attraction live course and the Digital Learning Course. The curriculum has been updated to reflect the chaos, confusion and fear that is swirling around us right now. The lessons and the tools have been modified to help you apply them in this environment.

And because I don’t want that fear to get in the way of you signing up for this course, I have lowered the tuition by $100! It’s my way to bite back at this economic meltdown!

And if you read this in time, by Tuesday, November 5th, you’ll have the opportunity to save even more. I’ve taken another $100 off the tuition through Tuesday. (It was meant to be a 24-hour Halloween special, but I forgot to send out the email on Friday. D’oh! My trick, your treat.)

The bottom line is that I don’t want money, or the fear surrounding money to be the reason you say no to this life changing opportunity.

And, as with all of my online events, the course comes with my no-questions-asked guarantee. If you don’t feel you’ve received incredible value from the course, just ask for a refund and you’ll get your money back with no questions asked.

My intention with this course is to arm you with a set of powerful energetic tools that have real world, practical, applications. After all, energy tools are great, but if they don’t help you thrive in the “real” world, they’re not very useful.

So over the next 6-weeks I will be sharing these tools with you in a way that will allow you to immediately put them into use in your “real” life. You will learn how to use these techniques to get out of the fear, confusion and doubt and stay out of it. And once you’re out of it, you can use these tools to dramatically accelerate the creation of a truly awesome life.

I sure hope to see you on the first call this Thursday.

You can get all the details about the course and register for the Energetics of Attraction Live Course here:

I hope you had a fun and festive Halloween. My daughter, Ella, was a Forest Fairy this year. She was pretty darn cute (and I’m not biased in the least!)

And I’m pleased to say that she still seems to enjoy giving out candy to the kids who come to our house more than getting the candy when we go trick-or-treating. We’re not a big candy-eating household, so it’s nice to see that she is happy to give the stuff away.

But on a deeper level, it’s nice to know that she still intuitively understands the joy of giving, of flowing energy out into the world. And she truly is flowing energy out, both in the form of the candy (remember, everything is energy) but also in the form of the sheer joy and passion that she brings to her job as official candy hander-outer! There is some serious energy flowing out of her when she jumps for joy each time she puts a handful of candy into a bag!

And her happiness is contagious. There were four adults hanging out watching her and all of us were smiling and laughing with her as she ran to the door each time she heard another group coming up the front steps.

Even most of the serious and normally aloof high school boys, dressed up in their blood-stained, scary-faced costumes could not keep a straight face as they saw this little ball of joy running to greet them, not scared, not put off by their costumes, but giggling with joy as she gave them candy.

What a beautiful and rich reminder she gave us all. How true, and how easy it is to forget, that joy is shared when giving is done with an open heart.

And in this environment, when so many people are focusing on holding on tighter to what they have, it is an incredibly important lesson!

What can you give away today? What can you do to send a message to the universe and to your own immensely powerful subconscious mind that YOU are full? What type of energy can you offer to the world today?

Most people are focused on what is leaving their lives. Most people are focused on how they can hold onto what they have.

If you can go against that flow and focus on what you can share, what you can give away, you will be one of the few who is truly able to leverage the laws of the universe to attract more of what you desire in this time of fear, scarcity, and lack.

So today, perhaps right now, ask yourself what you can give. It could be as simple as sending a loving thought to someone you know, or sending out a thank you note to someone in your life.

Take time today to flow energy out into the world and let yourself remember what it feels like to be open, to share, to let go of the holding. Release your grip on what you have and focus on what you can share.

You will immediately feel the difference!

• A very simple breathing technique to help you release fear and connect with joy.
• An easy 5-minute energy cleansing tool you can use morning and evening to keep your personal energy space clear.
• A grounding technique you can use anywhere, anytime to calm and soothe any frenetic, fear-based, energy in your space.

If you are looking for some support and guidance on how to effectively navigate these turbulent times, you’ll want to be on this call. Space is limited on this call, so to guarantee your spot, use the link below to register. I look forward to speaking with you on Thursday and enjoying a whoop-dee-doop or two! To your greatness. Ed

And now that I seem to have gotten most of the glitches out of my system I can’t wait to get up to Lake Tahoe and do some amazing work this weekend.

I’ll let you know how it goes next week!

And, just in case you missed the last update on this event, I’ve taken the economy out of the equation so you just have to pay for your room and board to get into this life-changing 3-day retreat!

So if you’re ready to let a lot more of your light shine onto this world – and this world certainly could use some more of your light right now! – head on over and get registered.