How to Succeed in Commercial Photography : Insights From a Leading Consultant

what’s truly real, and they give me extra sustenance when

I need it most.

INSPIRATION

Perhaps artist and guru Julia Cameron says it best. In her

book Heart Steps, Prayers, and Declarations for a Creative Life, the

author of The Artist’s Waytalks about how affirmations first

came into her life.

In 1979 composer Billy May gave me a small book

of prayers. Creative Ideasby Dr. Ernest Holmes. He

said the prayers “led the way for him.” “I think of it

like this,” he said, “If you’re working on a project and

you have a hundred creative horses you want them all

working for you. Now, if thirty of your horses are

worried about money and thirty are worried about

the way the project will be received, you only have

another forty to do the creative work at hand. These

prayers help you to gather your horses.” What a

revolution that booked caused in my life and in my

thinking.

If we just speak the words they open the door that

opens the heart.

If you find yourself wondering how the spoken word can cre-

ate change in your life, Cameron would remind you: “According

to scripture, The Ancients sang the world into existence.” If they

could do that, then surely you can use words to shift your world!

If you are still in doubt, considering going to http://www.

amazon.com and ordering the DVD The Secret. My client

Michael Boland from Vancouver sent me a copy and I have

since gifted it to many others. The Secretdetails the universal

law of attraction and explains how our thinking creates our

reality. It contains interviews with scientists, doctors, meta-

physicians, and others, each of whom discusses his or her

experience with this universal truth. Affirmations are indeed

a wonderful example of the universal law of attraction in

practice.

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