One thing you can do to supercharge your success and happiness

This week I was doing a coaching session with one of my favorite clients, Stephanie.
I’ve been working with Stephanie for over 4 years. She did a Soul Adventure with me and then went to Peru with me and after that we started coaching together.
In the 4 years that I’ve been coaching with her:

• Her income has tripled
• Her business is running in a really smooth way (and no longer running her)
• She’s lost 20 pounds
• She’s gotten married to a wonderful man she’s crazy about (and who is crazy about her)
• She’s had stuff happen with her two kids that has been initially upsetting, but everything has always worked out in an incredible way
• The relationship with her ex husband (which was why she started coaching in the first place) has become a wonderful working relationship where they both really care and cooperate with each other
• She has really “gotten it” that she is creating her own reality and she’s still delighted when she sees it happen in amazing and surprising ways

This past week we were doing a coaching session and we were talking about her morning routine. She said to me, “Every morning I get up between 5:00 and 5:11 am”. I couldn’t help myself, and I laughed and said, “What, you mean on the days that it’s 5:11 that’s when you’re slacking off?”
We laughed about it but then we had a wonderful discussion about something she and I both know – one of the easiest things that anyone can do to be super successful in every area of their lives is to get up early (and she graciously agreed to let me talk about her in this newsletter – thanks, Steph!)
And it’s definitely not about getting up early so you can immediately jump on your e-mail and working like a maniac. It’s about giving yourself the space to start the day off in the ways that will bring you the most happiness and fulfillment.
For Stephanie (and me) that’s starting off with meditation. The minute I wake up, I go into my healing room because I love the energy in there and I can sit in a chair – if I stay in bed, I’ll go back to sleep. I do a specific meditation each day that involves how I want the day to go and my vision. It raises me to a higher vibration.
The thing that’s so wonderful about this is – everyone can do this. Whether you’re a CEO or a MOM, getting up early so you can do what makes you feel good will give you amazing benefits.
Don’t take my word for it, look at these other examples:

• According to Business Insider, research shows that people who get up earlier are “happier and more proactive”.
• The co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, gets up at 5:30 am to meditate and jog 6 miles.
• Richard Branson gets up every day at 5:00 so he can exercise and spend time time with his family. He even does it when he’s on vacation on his private island. He keeps his drapes open so that the sun wakes him up. (I have to admit, it’s harder for me to get up in the winter months when it’s still dark outside). He says he believes the endorphin rush from exercise helps him throughout the day.
• The CEO of Celestial Seasonings and Rice Dreams, Irwin Simon, gets up at 5 a.m. so he can pray, walk the dog and exercise before his kids wake up.
• Gerry Laybourne, the female founder of the Oxygen Channel network, gets up at 6 am and twice weekly goes for a walk in Central Park “with a young person seeking my advice”. She says it’s her way of helping to bring along the next generation. She said she knows “if someone is up early in the morning, then they are serious about life”.
• Benjamin Franklin got up at 5 every morning and started work at 8. In those three hours, he washed, dressed and had breakfast, but he also spent the time contemplating the Universe and what he was going to do during the day. In other words, he was meditating and setting intentions!

Franklin is the one who coined the famous phrase “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”. And of course, women too!
Another fantastic thing to do in the early morning is to journal. I have had many clients write 3 things they are grateful for in Gratitude Journals the minute they wake up and people who stick with that have amazing results.
I suggested to one of my other favorite coaching clients, Tracey, that she do the journaling that Julia Cameron recommends in “The Artist’s Way”. Each day journaling for 3 pages, bringing in anything and everything. The minute Tracey started doing this, she saw incredible results. She writes about what she wants to have happen that day, and how she feels about it and any other thoughts that come in. She says that now almost everything she writes about happens! It’s become this fun game to see how everything unfolds.
What are the things that would make you feel better if you got up early and did them every day? It’s different for everyone — meditating, exercising, reading, being quiet, having a wonderful breakfast?
Start off slowly. Get up 10 minutes early and do 5 minutes of deep breathing. Or get up 20 minutes early and do some sort of exercise.
What really happens here is empowerment. You starting to take back the power in your life. It can be extraordinary.
At Sedona Soul Adventures, we are all about empowerment. Empowering you in every area of your life. Empowering your relationship.
Stephanie saw huge shifts in every area of her life after she did her Sedona Soul Adventures retreat — her love life, her work, her money, her relationship with her kids, her friends, and especially herself. Wouldn’t you like to have some of that?
Real and lasting change is actually possible, but you have to take the first step. Contact us and speak to an Angel Guide. They’ll connect with you (or both of you if it’s a couple) in deep conversation to determine exactly where you are and where you want to be; then they’ll custom design the perfect retreat that will bring you the life or the relationship you’re craving.
Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us toll free at 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada). For our friends outside the US and Canada call 01 928-204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you.
Wishing you a week full of rising and shining,
Debra

Debra Stangl / Founder

Sedona Soul Adventures – Transforming Lives One Soul At A Time
(877) 204-3664
https://old.sedonasouladventures.com

 
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Tommy R., Columbia, South Carolina

 
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1 min of exercise may be enough – the secret of less is more

Did you know that the latest studies are showing that shorter, more intense work outs are actually better for you?
I’m going to tell you about 2 exercise workouts that are very short. One is 7 minutes and my favorite involves 1 minute of intense activity and then I’m going to tell you about the work out which I do.
But then I’m going to talk to you about the real point of all of this — we’ve been told all our lives to be more and do more so that we could have more. But scientists are showing that doing exercise the way most people do it can actually be harmful and that less is more. And when we have balance (intensity intervals balanced with rest intervals) we have greater health and better results.
I keep on finding that this is so true in every area of our lives. Doing more is not the answer. Balance is the answer. The combination of intensity and rest is the answer.
When you discover those secrets, all areas of your life fall into place. And your physical body is the perfect reflection of that.
Isn’t that wonderful news? We really don’t have to work as hard as we’ve been told. Doing less actually gets us more!
What I love that’s happened in the last few years is how scientists are discovering that we can get really fit by spending much less time and not only that, working out too much can actually be unhealthy. That’s because when we work out, cortisol levels are raised. Cortistol is the hormone that can keep you fat (among lots of other negative things). When it’s elevated too much and over too long a period of time, it actually increases your likelihood of producing more fat and holding onto it. So if you’re working out like a maniac everyday, you’re probably keeping your cortisol levels raised. And doing too much exercise like that, might be keeping you fat, or preventing you from losing as much weight as you want. It’s so ironic!
So let’s get back to the short work outs. These are intense, interval work outs, meaning you go “all out” and then have intervals of rest. And at the end I’ll tell you about the weird work out that I do.
1. Exercising for an intense 1 min. In a great article in the New York Times, they report on a study from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. The subjects did 10 minutes of riding on stationary bikes — they warmed up for 2 minutes, did three 20-second “all out” intervals, followed by two minutes of slow easy pedaling, then cooled down for 3 minutes. A total of 10 minutes with one minute being really intense. After 6 weeks, everyone had lost weight, but most significant were the health improvements — endurance increased by 12%, all had healthier blood pressure and blood sugar levels and higher levels of mitochondria (more mitochondria mean better endurance and fitness). One minute (embedded in 10 minutes overall), increased their health significantly. And you can do this with anything (walking, running), not just a bike. It’s the combination of intensity and rest that makes the difference.
2. 7 Minutes. This one is from the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal, also reported in the NY Times. This is 12 exercises where all you need is a chair and a wall. It includes things like jumping jacks, push ups, running in place, etc.). You can find the specific exercises by Googling “7 Minute Workout” and there is even an app! There is also a new Advanced version that involves using a set of dumbbells.
For everyone who was tested they had increased cardiovascular health, increased stamina and endurance and decreased appetite! The article says the work out results in “many of the fitness benefits of prolonged endurance training but in much less time”.
The key is to do each one for 30 seconds “all out”, with a 10 second rest between each one. It’s really important to do them in the correct order and to have the intensity and then the rest.
Again, it’s so ironic. Scientists have found that the rest intervals are just as important as the “all out” intervals, because your body and muscles need to “catch their breath”. It’s the balance that creates the positive effects.
3. Here’s What I Do. One of the things you have to understand about me is that until 6 years ago, I battled my weight and did every diet out there and all types of crazy exercising. When I was “good” I would lose weight and then the minute I even started to think about eating “regular” food again, I would gain it all back and more. Sound familiar? Everything completely changed for me about 6 years ago and I talk about it at length in my book “The Journey to Happy” which is coming out soon. I dropped 40 pounds in less than 5 weeks without diet or exercise and went from a size 14 to a size 6. And part of what I discovered is that less is more.
I now hike once a week with my dog (and my friend Susan and her dog) and every 10 days I do a work out with my trainer that consists of 5 exercises and takes 25 minutes. The exercises are standard weight lifting ones – bench press, dead lift, leg press, etc. I do each one holding it for 5 seconds. Weight keeps getting added until I reach failure. Typically with each session I’m increasing the weight by 5 pounds.
Because I’ve been doing this for over 5 years (and because it’s held for only 5 seconds), I’ve gotten to some amazing weights for a woman of my size — 720 pounds for leg press, I’m deadlifting 330 pounds, and bench pressing 160 pounds. But the best part is the way I look and feel.
Here’s why this works. To increase muscle mass, you need to take the muscle to failure and then let it recover. It takes 10 days for the muscle to fully recover. That’s why doing the same weight lifting workouts and doing lots of reps and doing it 3 times per week doesn’t work and isn’t giving people results. They aren’t allowing their muscles to fully recover.
This picture was taken last October, so you can see the results. I don’t work out 3 times per week, I work out once every 10 days for 25 minutes — it still amazes me. And I don’t have big muscles, I don’t want big muscles. I’ve increased my lean muscle mass and I know that is one of the reasons I’m not fat anymore.
I stopped the crazy exercising I was doing and got better results. I brought more balance into my life. I work smarter, not harder.
It reminds me of how things have changed in doing spiritual healing work. When I really got back on my spiritual path in the 1990’s, I was going to a lot of workshops where they were saying that it would take years and years of deep, hard work to have any kind of real healing happen. They explained that it had taken years and years to get me to the messed up state I was in, so it was going to take years and years to get me out of it.
I believed it. That made sense to the rational part of my mind.
And then something happened right after the turn of the century. I started coming to Sedona in 1999. For three years I was coming for a month at a time and each time I came I would do one or two healing sessions with the different practitioners that I was finding. I suddenly figured out in 2002 that doing intense healing work combined with rest and integration was allowing me to have huge transformations. And that’s how Sedona Soul Adventures was born.
People now accomplish in 3 days what it took me 3 years to do (I’m not stupid, it just took me a while to figure this out!). There is an energy on the planet now that I believe is speeding everything up. It feels to me like the transformational energies of Sedona are getting even more intense.
One of the ways I see this demonstrated is by the incredible transformations that individuals and couples have here in just 3 or 4 days. It’s astounding.
Just as you can transform your physical health with less effort than you might have thought, it doesn’t take years to transform your life or your relationship. You can do it in a matter of days! Isn’t that fabulous news?
We’re able to do it because we custom design the retreat for exactly what you need. I used to go to workshops and maybe 10% of it was really helpful, sometimes as much as 25%. But the workshop never dealt with exactly what I needed and of course it couldn’t, it was designed to help a whole range of people, not just me. When I started working in private sessions with the amazing healers in Sedona, that’s when everything started to change for me.
If you’d like to experience that kind of transformation, contact us. Talk to one of our Angel Guides. They’ll connect with you (or both of you, if it’s a couple) in deep conversation, really getting at what’s going on, what’s happening, and what you want to happen. Then they’ll design the perfect retreat of private sessions with Sedona’s most amazing and experienced healers that will bring you into the life or relationship of your dreams.
As I always say, “If you knew what could happen, you’d be calling right now”.
And by the way, our Angel Guides are available to you on Sundays!
Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us toll free at 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada). For our friends outside the US and Canada call 01 928-204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you.
Wishing you a week of less (which will lead to more!),
Debra

Debra Stangl / Founder

Sedona Soul Adventures – Transforming Lives One Soul At A Time
(877) 204-3664
https://old.sedonasouladventures.com

 
Dori says she got more from her 3 day Soul Adventure than from “2 years of weekly therapy”.
“I can say without any qualms that I got more assistance and much needed guidance from my Soul Adventure than I’ve had with 2 years of weekly therapy. My soul and spirit were broken and lost…but gratefully the sessions (and the vortexes) replaced the darkness with light and opened my eyes, heart and soul. I have regained my own inner power-in actuality it is stronger than ever. Thank you, Debra, for being such a caring, warm and loving Angel Guide.”

Dori K., Los Angeles, California

 
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Using your built in GPS – is it time to make a U turn?

Did you know you have a built in GPS system that can tell you in every moment whether or not you’re on the right path?
It’s your emotions. And the best part is that you have access to this information and feedback all the time.
Your emotions are like a natural navigation system. Your spirit will continue to find ways to speak to you until you take notice and listen.
As I write in my upcoming book, The Journey to Happy (available soon!),
“In every moment, our emotions are telling us how we’re feeling, how we’re flowing energy, and how we’re vibrating.
Although these ideas may seem complicated, they’re really very simple. We are either feeling good, or we are feeling bad. It’s pretty much as simple as that. We have all of these names for emotions. We have ones that have been labeled “good” – happiness, joy, bliss, contentment, or peace – and we have ones that have been labeled “bad” – anger, depression, frustration, rage, worry, anxiety, ennui, or despondency.
In every moment, we have the ability to move toward good feelings or bad feelings. Good feelings move us into energetic vibrations that bring us the things we want – happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. Negative feelings take us in the opposite direction.”
We all know when something feels good. Yet, we second-guess ourselves when it comes to getting signals about what is not working.
So many of us continue to deny that we know what is best for us when it comes to our health, our relationships, our finances and our career path.
Don’t discount your emotions — they are the easiest way to take stock of what is working and what is not working in your life.
Feelings of disconnection, discord and discontent are sure signs that your awareness is shifting and your soul is undergoing an awakening. You can either do something about it now, or wait until things get worse (because they always get worse).
Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?
Are you in a dead-end relationship, but too afraid to end it for fear of being alone?
Do you hate your job but stay in it because you don’t know exactly what you should be doing?
Is your money situation driving you crazy? Are you doing anything to change it?
Just as a GPS tells you when you are off course (“at the next intersection, make a legal U turn”), you can trust your emotions to do the same.
At Sedona Soul Adventures, we believe that everything hidden, sooner or later, comes into awareness for healing and release.
Major, permanent shifts can occur quickly and with relative ease. We have seen it happen for thousands of Soul Adventurers, and we would love to see it happen for you.
Is it time to make a U turn? Real and lasting change actually is possible, but you have to take the first step. Contact us and speak to an Angel Guide. They’ll connect with you (or both of you if it’s a couple) in deep conversation to determine exactly where you are and where you want to be; then they’ll custom design the perfect retreat that will bring you the life or the relationship you’re craving.
Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us toll free at 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada). For our friends outside the US and Canada call 01 928-204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you.
Wishing you a week filled with lots of emotions,
Debra

Debra Stangl / Founder

Sedona Soul Adventures – Transforming Lives One Soul At A Time
(877) 204-3664
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Debbie says her “life changing” Soul Adventure brought her a “newfound happiness and contentment”
“My Sedona Soul Adventure was awesome, majestic and wonderful. It really  brought me to a newfound happiness and contentment inside – something I haven’t had for quite awhile. Prior to my trip I really could not say “I deserve to be happy and I love myself”. Now I do not have a problem with that – thanks to all that led me on my journey. This is an experience that should not be passed up on – it can change your life.”

Debbie R., Bartlett, Illinois

 
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Want More Love? – Part II

Last week in Part I, I spoke about sexless marriages and how that has been a theme of many of our Couples Retreats lately and how successful we’ve been in helping couples with that.
This week in Part II, I want to talk about how we’ve been seeing a growing number of people who are telling us they want more love and connection (and sex) in their lives. But actually, the biggest part is the love and connection piece.
Ironically, what we’re finding in these situations is that the real culprit is not love on the outside. It’s the lack of love the person is feeling for themselves that’s blocking love from coming in.
This lack of self love, lack of self acceptance, having an underlying belief that you’re not good enough, not deserving of love, can block everything in your life — not only love, but abundance and happiness and general well being.
The real question is, where does that come from and what can you do about it?
One of the things I love so much about what we do here at Sedona Soul Adventures is that we are so great at figuring that out and helping people with it.
We had a client here a few months ago who had been dealing with this issue for years, primarily with talk therapy. She knew she felt unloveable and thought it had to do with her disapproving and stern mother, who had died the year before. Her Angel Guide felt like there was probably more to the story and that’s exactly what happened. One of the first sessions that she did was a Karmic Clearing and in that session it came out that she had more than one past life with her mother where they had been adversaries and deeply competitive. She had actually killed her mother in one of those lifetimes. In the session, the karma and the soul contracts were completely cleared and she said she actually felt the energy and tension from all that flowing out of her body.
She then did a Core Belief Transformation session and in this one, she was dealing with the false belief “I’m not lovable”. This session is so powerful because it connects on all the levels – physical, mental, emotional and physical. Going back and seeing where this belief went in was so powerful and she had a huge emotional response, crying and just letting go. She said she was able to solidly replace that old false belief with the new empowering one – “I love myself just the way I am”.
But the breath work was the real capper. She literally went into the altered state and was viewing her mother’s life from a number of different angles and perspectives. She saw what a difficult life her mother had had, and why it had been so difficult for her mother to feel and express love. Just as she was feeling this huge surge of compassion for her mother, her mother suddenly appeared to her to in a vision, smiling and telling her how much she loved her. Needless to say, there was a lot of kleenex used in that session. But she told me she literally felt her mother’s love and felt it in a way that she had never felt before.
In her Spiritual Transformation session, the knowing that she truly loves herself went in really deep and she got some important tools to take home. And again, that’s another thing that’s so great about our retreats. Because we give people tools they can continue to use to not only maintain, but deepen the transformations which happen here.
She went home and everything had changed. She really loved herself. When we connected a few weeks ago, I found out she was getting married! And this week I got a Facebook post from her wedding.
Do you want more love in your life? It all starts with really loving yourself in a deep way. This can be a real struggle for many of us, especially when we don’t really know what has caused our lack of self love in the first place or what is blocking us. Call now to speak to one of our Angel Guides. They’ll spend time talking to you (or both of you if it’s a couple), really digging deep and discovering the blocks that are holding you back from the life or relationship you want. Then they’ll design the retreat that’s perfect for you.
Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us toll free at 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada). For our friends outside the US and Canada call 01 928-204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you.
Wishing you a week filled with love and connection,
Debra

Debra Stangl / Founder

Sedona Soul Adventures – Transforming Lives One Soul At A Time
(877) 204-3664
https://old.sedonasouladventures.com

 
Lauren says before her Soul Adventure she was “lost, sad and full of heartache”: after – “I love me!”
“I was in a very dark place and my heart knew I needed to travel to a special place for healing and clarity. I was lost, sad, and full of heartache. Sedona called my name at exactly the right time and I serendipitously came across the Sedona Soul Adventures website. My soul adventure provided a safe place to journey through the pain and grief, gave me the tools to continue the healing process, and helped me become balanced and whole. I am no longer hardened by the world – I am soft and gushy! I no longer react in anger or frustration, I can breathe life and peace inside when confronted with difficult situations. I understand who I am and I love me! Thank you Sedona Soul Adventures! I’ll be back – I promise!”

Lauren S., Dallas, Texas

 
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Want More Sex? Part I

Many of you know that I was a divorce attorney for over 20 years in Omaha, Nebraska. I was amazed during that time to find out how many of my divorce clients had pretty much stopped having sex towards the end of their marriage.
What I didn’t know until I started working with couples through Sedona Soul Adventures, is how many sexless marriages there are out there. People who stay in their marriage and don’t have sex.
I was stunned to discover this week that sexless marriage is the top-searched marriage complaint on Google, according to data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. Searches for “sexless marriage” are three-and-a-half times more common than “unhappy marriage” and eight times more common than “loveless marriage.”
That explains why we see this issue so much in our Couples Retreats. And — I’m happy to say — why it’s something we’re so good at helping people with.
One of the things I know from being a divorce attorney for 20 years and doing Sedona Soul Adventures for 14 years, is that your sex life is an indicator of what’s going on in the marriage. It’s certainly not the only indicator, but it’s a big indicator.
And while sex is an indicator, it is NEVER the underlying cause. There’s always other things going on. And the range of what those things are is also staggering. Sometimes it has to do with things that happened in childhood. Sometimes it has to do with something that happened during the marriage that one person can’t forgive the other for. Sometimes it’s because one person has cheated. Sometimes there’s an anger that one person can’t let go of. Sometimes there’s a shame that one person can’t admit.
And I’ve also been amazed to find out that it’s both men and women who don’t want to have sex. I think the stereotype that I grew up with is the cold, frigid woman. That’s certainly not the case. The number of women who come to us saying their husbands don’t want to have sex is staggering.
But it doesn’t matter whether it’s the man or the woman, this is devastating for both people in the relationship.
And getting at the underlying reasons can be difficult. We’re not sex therapists, we’re just good at getting what’s underneath the problem. We had a couple who first contacted us over one year ago. Actually, the wife contacted us (I’ll call her Linda, they have asked that we not use their real names). When Linda spoke with her Angel Guide she said that her husband (I’ll call him Bill) started this about a year earlier, always saying he felt too stressed out to have sex. Although Linda tried to talk to him about it, he wouldn’t talk about it and would get angry when she tried to push him.
After Linda spoke with her Angel Guide, she arranged for Bill to speak with the Angel Guide. Bill kept saying he was just stressed. The Angel Guide knew there was something much deeper. She designed a Couples Retreat, and Linda was enthusiastic, but Bill was not. Reluctantly, he agreed to come, mostly to appease Linda.
In their first session together, he finally got it that Linda wasn’t angry with him. She was hurt. He finally got it, even though they had done months of therapy. Understanding that she was hurt and not angry made his heart open to her in a way that he hadn’t felt in a very long time.
He then did a session on his own to release his anger. In the session, he was able to look at the stress in his life in a different way. He said he dropped his anger toward Linda, but he mainly dropped his anger toward himself. He said he felt an amazing release.
At the same time, Linda was doing a Core Belief Transformation session and in that she completely got it that this was not about her, this was not about anything that was wrong with her. That took a huge weight off her shoulders.
And then it happened. Bill did a breathwork session. Ironically, he hadn’t wanted to do it, as he felt it was a little too “woo woo” for him. He told me later that he started doing the breath thinking “I’ll just use the time for relaxation”, however, the Universe had something else in mind. He immediately went into the altered state and suddenly saw a vision of an event that had happened between he and his father when he was a teenager. His father had caught him doing something and had shamed him. Bill was completely devastated by the shaming and it was something he never told anyone about.
Bill’s father had died the year before (at about the same time the problems started) and Bill saw the connection in an instant — he saw that he was unhealed from the event that had happened with his father and that’s where all this had come from.
He saw that his father did not mean to shame him, his father thought that he was giving him sound advice that was in his best interests. Suddenly, Bill felt his father’s presence with him in the room and felt the deep love that his father had for him and that he had for his father.
The next thing that happened was that he saw Linda and felt this huge wave of love for her.
Bill said he was crying like he had never cried in his life but that it felt so good and so liberating. He told his practitioner that he couldn’t wait to get back to Linda to tell her all about it.
That night at their hotel they reported that they had an ecstatic and blissful time together.
The next day in their next couples session, they celebrated what had happened, but then their practitioner took it much deeper. They talked a lot about communication and about how they would handle issues that would come up in the future. They realized that the way they handled this – getting angry with each other, not talking, blaming each other — was also how they dealt with each other on other, seemingly smaller issues. Things had been resolved on both a small and large scale.
They learned a process to talk to each other from the heart and then to really connect in with each other through their hearts.
Bill said he loved it so much that all these awarenesses came from him — not from someone else telling him what it was.
Linda said “I can’t thank you enough. I was afraid I was going to have to leave our marriage and I didn’t want to – I love him”
Having spent 20 years as a divorce attorney divorcing people, I can’t tell you how spectacularly gratifying it is that I’ve now spent the last 14 years helping people stay together. And it’s so gratifying that we were named one of the top Marriage Retreats in the U.S. by Guidedoc last year.
If this is an issue that is plaguing you, or if there are other issues that are affecting your relationship, please contact us and do something about it now. You aren’t meant to live in unhappiness. The two of you came together for a reason and part of that reason is to heal together.
Call us and speak to an Angel Guide. They’ll talk to each of you separately and design the retreat that is perfect for the two of you — to bring you back into the love and connection you’re craving.
Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us toll free at 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada). For our friends outside the US and Canada call 01 928-204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you.
If you knew what could happen, you’d be calling us right now.
Wishing you a week filled with lots of love,
Debra

Debra Stangl / Founder

Sedona Soul Adventures – Transforming Lives One Soul At A Time
(877) 204-3664
https://old.sedonasouladventures.com

 
Frank and Valerie say “Sedona Soul Adventures saved our marriage”
“After months of marriage counseling the “D” word was coming up more and more. After our Soul Adventure, our relationship is renewed, passionate, and loving. We are connected more than the day we married back 12 years ago. Our communication is better than ever, and our romance is better than ever. Our marriage is safe, and there is no turning back. Thank you to your entire team of loving and talented individuals for all you do. Sedona Soul Adventures saved our marriage.”

Frank & Valerie F., Los Angeles, CA

 
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Procrastination – It's Even Worse Than You Think – Read This Now – Don't it put off!

What if I told you that procrastination is even worse than you already think it is, that it can damage your health and relationships, decrease your happiness level by 94% and lead to deep regret? Yikes!
I read the most fascinating article this week by Sandip Roy, who is a regular contributor on NPR. The studies he was reporting on show not only how damaging procrastination is, but the fascinating part is the longer we allow the procrastination to go on, the worse the consequences.
The study involved students handing in a particular assignment. Even though they had over a month to do the assignment, 86% of the class waited to hand in the assignment until the very last day. But the amazing thing in this study is what happened in the last 24 hours. The longer the student waited to hand in their assignment, the lower their grade was. It kept dropping every hour. The longer the procrastination went on, the worse the consequences.
He cites two other studies, one with over 10,000 subjects that was conducted through the Procrastination Research Group. In that study, 94% of the subjects reported that procrastination had a negative effect on their happiness! In another study by Procrastination and Science, 70% were found to be less happy than the average person! Those are staggering numbers!
Roy reports in the article that habitual procrastination damages relationships and can have a huge negative impact on a person’s career. One of the most chilling things he writes is “Procrastinators frequently resort to lies to reason out their delays, and are often found out, leading to disastrous consequences.”
He talks about that the 3 areas where most people procrastinate have to do with:
1) Education – most of us start procrastinating in school and the behavior and label follows us throughout our entire life;
2) Career – not getting things done and not taking steps to move forward in a career when we know we should be; and
3) Health – not doing the things we know we should be doing for our physical, mental, and emotional well being.
All of which leads to a life filled with regret.
I see this all of the time with our clients who come here for a Soul Adventure. So many of them tell us, “I’ve been wanting to do a Soul Adventure for years”. One woman this week told me she’s been wanting to do a retreat with us for over 5 years! Everyone says pretty much the same thing: “I wouldn’t give myself permission to spend the money or spend the time and I was afraid it wouldn’t work and I kept putting it off. Now I’m at a point where I have to do it.”
And then at the end of their Soul Adventure they always say “I wish I had done this sooner!”
If you aren’t living your best life or if your relationship isn’t giving you all that you want, it’s time to do something about it.
Don’t put it off.
How long has this been going on? 2 months? A year?
If it’s been going on for awhile, what are you doing to change it? If you don’t do something, it isn’t going to change.
As Einstein said, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”.
Something has to change. You have to make a decision to do something different.
As the studies show, the longer you allow the procrastination to go on, the worse the consequences.
Come here to Sedona and do a retreat with us. You will be amazed at what will happen in just 3 or 4 days.
Contact us to speak to an Angel Guide. Your Angel Guide will speak with you (or both of you if it’s a couples retreat) on a deep level. Then they’ll custom design a retreat that will bring you into the life or relationship you’re craving. Do it now.
Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us toll free at 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada). For our friends outside the US and Canada call 01 928-204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you.
Wishing you a week filled with doing what you know you need to do,
Debra

Debra Stangl / Founder

Sedona Soul Adventures – Transforming Lives One Soul At A Time
(877) 204-3664
https://old.sedonasouladventures.com

 
Janet says after putting it off for years, her Soul Adventure was “the best thing I have ever done for myself”
“Sedona Soul Adventures was the best thing I have ever done  for myself.  I had seen the emails for years and longed to go but never made the commitment. When stress was overtaking my life and getting so out of control, it was the only place I felt I could turn to. It was an act of survival to get myself balanced again. Being a mother of two young children and working full-time I needed to take some rest and re-energize. It was better than I could have ever imagined it to be. The techniques I learned and the “AHA” moments gave me new life again. Trust me, everyone benefits with a better you. Thank you, Sedona Soul Adventures.”

Janet B, Henderson, Nevada

 
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My guilty secret, perfection, not settling and Amazon Prime

I have to tell you a guilty secret. I love Amazon Prime.
I was realizing this week that I love Amazon Prime so much because it allows a level of perfection that we don’t always have in every area of our lives. It allows me to not only have perfection, but also to not settle for less than perfection. And as much as possible, I am determined to not settle.
I find that the less I settle, the happier I am.
I find that the more I settle, the less happy I am.
You do the math. Not settling = more happy.
I had another beautiful experience with Amazon Prime this week and that’s what got me thinking about having perfection in my life and not settling.
As you read this, you might think that what I’m talking about is trivial, but I assure you it isn’t. The more that we expect and demand things to be the best they can be, the more the Universe conspires to bring the best into our lives (and it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about the work you do in the world or a toaster).
I’ll tell you my experience this week in a moment, but first I want to tell you why I love Amazon Prime:
1. They have virtually everything and I do mean everything! I live in Sedona (which I adore, as you all know), but we are a small population (only 12,000) and the only shopping we have (except for $50 t-shirts) is a Walgreens and Bealls (a discount clothing store). We have to go to Flagstaff or Phoenix to do any real shopping.
Before Amazon, I used to settle for things that weren’t exactly what I wanted because it was all that was available, and I didn’t want to have to drive to Flagstaff or Phoenix. And they were seemingly insignificant things, so I would let it slide and just settle for not having exactly what I wanted.
But now, I can find virtually everything I want! How many things in life can you say that about? Where you can — in almost every situation — find your heart’s desire?
2. In this world filled with uncertainty, they are completely reliable. With Prime, I receive everything in 1-2 days. And when they say 1-2 days, they mean 1-2 days. They have never disappointed me. How many things (or people) can you say that about?
3. It’s so easy. I find what I want so quickly, I buy everything with One Click and then here’s the best part. If I don’t love what I got and want to return something, I click the box on the web site, I tape up the shipping box and go to UPS (a 4 minute drive and the same shopping center where I get manicures) and just drop it off (no standing in line). The minute UPS clicks on the box, the credit goes back on my credit card. So much easier than driving to Flagstaff or Phoenix. Ease — how many things do we have in our lives that are really easy?
4. They are a source of unlimited knowledge. With Prime, I can get an incredible number of movies and TV shows. “Transparent” is an original Amazon Prime show and it’s fantastic. Recently I watched a documentary about World War II and it was extraordinary. I buy all my books on Kindle now and it has set me free! I usually read 4 books at a time (one on spirituality or self development, a biography, a novel and something funny). When I would travel (like on my trip to Egypt last month), it would be such a drag to lug 4 books around with me. Now all of them are on my iPad mini (along with magazines and podcasts). All this knowledge at my fingertips – what a world we live in!
5. They want me to be happy and they don’t want me to settle. The source of all this bliss and contemplation of perfection and not settling is (amazingly) about a plastic cord cover. Again, you might think this is trivial, but it isn’t – read on.
In my beautiful home office (where I do all my writing), I have a beautiful, sleek Apple computer that has a big cord coming out of it. My desk faces the door of the office and is placed in perfect feng shui spacing. This leaves 4 feet of cord going to the wall. I changed the carpet in my office a few months ago to a beautiful thick, plush off white (not practical, but beautiful). The existing plastic cord cover is brown and ugly and very visible on the off white carpet. Every day I would look at that cord cover and it wouldn’t make me feel good.
Finally, last week I realized that the brown cord cover was detracting from my happiness, so I found a beige one on Amazon. I ordered it and it was here in 2 days (free shipping with Prime). But it was a dark beige and I didn’t love it. I went back on Amazon and found one in ivory. I clicked the button for the refund, printed out the shipping label and took the return to UPS the next day (as I was going for a manicure). The day after that the refund appeared on my credit card. The day after that, the ivory cord cover arrived and it matches my carpet perfectly. Every time I look at it, it makes me feel good.
And that’s what got me thinking about these little things about our lives that make all the difference. Having things that are easy and playful, that make us feel good, is so important.
Not settling for things that don’t make us feel wonderful, even down to the smallest details. Like a plastic cord cover. Because the small details make up the largest parts of our lives.
When you make the decision that you only want things in your life that make you feel good, your life will start to change. And I don’t just mean “things” like plastic cord covers, I mean everything — your work, your relationship, your body, your friends. Everything in your life either adds to your energy or takes away from it.
On the surface, these might seem like small things, but they’re not. I was in the habit of “settling” for something because Sedona has no shopping and I didn’t want to wait until the next time I went to Phoenix. Now I have exactly what I want and I have it delivered to my door by a friendly young man who gives my dog a biscuit every time he comes.
And that’s how our lives should be. Too often we’re “settling”. We’re putting up with mediocrity. And at the base of that is the belief that we don’t deserve better than that. And when we stay in that energy, the Universe keeps on delivering more mediocrity.
Changing one little thing can have a huge impact. It leads to changing more little things. And when you move into the energy of change, that’s when change starts happening on all the levels.
I invite you to take stock of your life. Where are you settling? Are you putting up with a mediocre life because it feels like that’s all you can have? I promise you, that’s not the way it works. When you start demanding and expecting things to be wonderful, things start to shift. Little shifts become big shifts.
The big shifts in my life (from unhappy to happy, from hating my work to doing the work of my dreams, from 40 pounds overweight to ideal weight, from $50,000 in debt to financial stability) came when I first started coming to Sedona in 1999. I made the decision that I wasn’t going to settle anymore for the life I had. I’m so glad I made that decision.
Your life can be different. Don’t settle.
If you’re ready to make a shift, if you’re ready to not settle, come to Sedona and do a retreat. It’s the fastest way I know of for you to make the big shifts start happening. Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us toll free at 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada). For our friends outside the US and Canada call 01 928-204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. They will custom design your retreat to bring your life (or your relationship) into the perfection you deserve.
Wishing you a week filled with perfection,
Debra

Debra Stangl / Founder

Sedona Soul Adventures – Transforming Lives One Soul At A Time
(877) 204-3664
https://old.sedonasouladventures.com

 
Shelby says her Sedona Soul Adventure was “perfect”
“I could not have had a more perfect experience, I can take everything I have learned from this amazing experience, and apply it to daily life and make this a better life for myself and those around me. I don’t even know how much my entire trip cost, it did not and does not matter, what I learned and gained is so precious, how do you weigh the value of freeing a soul? You are all so inspirational, and I thank you for such a transforming experience.”

Shelby K., Foster City, California

 
One more room available for our Machu Picchu trip, June 17-30, 2016
If Machu Picchu is on your bucket list and if these dates work for you, take action now. We have one more room left on the trip, for either a couple or a Single. And if you’re a Single, don’t worry about coming on your own. One of the most wonderful things about our trips is that our groups are in love with each other within 48 hours. And make friendships that last a lifetime.
We still have one more space available – act now.
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The #1 way to have peace in your life

For most people, having peace in their lives seems like an impossible dream. Most people are stressed out, burned out and they’re doing too much. Ironically, even though they’re doing too much, they don’t feel like they’re accomplishing anything.
Most people are worried about something that gnaws at them all the time. What is that for you? Do you worry about your job, your kids, your health, your spouse, your relationship, your money situation? Do you worry about other people liking you or loving you? Do you worry about your future? Do you worry about how your life is going to end up?
What’s your general state of mind during a typical day? Are you happy and excited? Or are you upset and frustrated? How do you react to things when something happens? Do you take it in stride or go into worry and upset?
Most people live in a general state of worry, upset or (even worse) hopelessness. It’s not hard to understand why that happens with everything that is going on in the world and in our day to day lives.
But the interesting thing is, it’s not all that stuff on the outside that is causing your sense of peace or lack of it. It’s how you’re reacting to all the stuff that’s happening. And how you’re reacting to it is based on how you’re thinking and feeling about it. And the way you’re thinking and feeling about it is probably rooted in something that happened to you a long time ago, in your formative years.
We had a woman who came for a Soul Adventure retreat in the past few weeks who first contacted us saying that she wanted to come to heal her pain around her marriage ending. Her husband had left her and she was (of course) brokenhearted. When she spoke with her Angel Guide, he knew this had deep roots. He designed her Soul Adventure in such a way to bring those out. During her time here, she discovered things around her relationship with her mother that had left her feeling unloved and unworthy of love. She saw how she had actually created an unhappy relationship to bring this up for healing.
Once she had that awareness, everything shifted. She did forgiveness work around her relationship with her mother and she said she felt the energy of that situation completely heal. The next sessions brought her into a sense of loving herself on all the levels — physically (loving her body), mentally, emotionally and spiritually. At the end of her retreat she said, “I had no idea all of this was impacting every area of my life in all of these ways. I feel like a huge weight has come off my shoulders. I feel light and free for the first time in my life”.
Last year we had a couple who first contacted us saying that there were no problems in their relationship, they simply wanted to become closer on a spiritual level. But when their Angel Guide spoke with each of them separately, she felt some undercurrents of resentment and fear. With a Couples Retreat, we always design the retreat to include sessions for the couple together, but also individual sessions for each person to heal issues that the individual might be bringing to the relationship and that’s how their retreat was designed.
During the first session, the cracks in their relationship came out and in their individual sessions, they both got real eye openers. The wife’s father left her mother when she was a young child and the messages she got was “men leave” and “I must have done something wrong that daddy left”. Her father had been very emotionally abusive and she realized that she sometimes felt “bullied” by her husband. Not in a harsh and abusive way, but in subtle ways that were controlling.
She was amazed when she discovered another link: her husband is very attractive and her father was very attractive. Even though they have been married for over 20 years and he has always been faithful, she realized that she has always been afraid of losing him and put up with the subtle bullying because she was afraid that he would leave her like her father had.
In her subsequent sessions, this place of fear (that had been with her since childhood) was healed. She was completely blown away.
In his sessions, the husband disclosed for the first time that he had been bullied as a child. He saw how this was affecting not only his relationship but every area of his life. In his individual sessions the shame from this was healed and he said he felt all the anger just flowing out of his body and his heart.
Needless to say, they were both shocked to discover how this “bullying” issue (which they had never defined as an issue) had been impacting their relationship. And you can imagine how wonderful their final couples sessions were. Both of them came together healed and more in love than ever. Her fear was gone, his shame and anger were gone, and they had a new and deep appreciation for each other that hadn’t been there for a long time. Plus, they received tools that they took home to help them continue to communicate and connect more deeply.
That was last year and I just spoke with them this past week. It’s been a year now and they both said that the peace that this has brought to their lives and relationship is beyond what they could have imagined.
As both of these stories illustrate, if you want to have peace in your life, you have to get at the things that are causing you to not have peace. You might know what those issues are, you might not. Most often, people who come to us to do a retreat discover that the thing that is causing their pain, their anxiety and all their problems is actually something different from what they thought it was.
So here is my bold statement – The #1 way that I know to have peace in your life is to come to Sedona and do a Sedona Soul Adventures retreat. We will find the blocks and move them out. We’ll move you back into a sense of connection and peace that you didn’t think was possible.
Contact us to speak to an Angel Guide. It’s amazing how many people say that after one phone call with their Angel Guide they already feel better. Your Angel Guide will speak with you (or both of you if it’s a couples retreat) on a deep level. Then they’ll custom design a retreat that will bring you into the life or relationship you’re craving.
Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us toll free at 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada). For our friends outside the US and Canada call 01 928-204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you.
Wishing you a week filled with peace,
Debra

Debra Stangl / Founder

Sedona Soul Adventures – Transforming Lives One Soul At A Time
(877) 204-3664
https://old.sedonasouladventures.com

Daisy Dawg, Katie Kat, puppies, kittens and wet slurpy kisses

A number of people have written to me lately asking about how Daisy Dawg and Katie Kat are doing, as I haven’t spoken of them lately. They’re both doing great and as I was going through pictures of them I came across photos of Puddin’ and Emma and Sammy and had to say a few words about them as well as a few words about all the amazing love these little beings bring into our lives.
Daisy is doing so well. The picture above is her at 4 weeks. I could hold her in my hand. See how she’s smiling? She’ll be 6 in July and although she weighs 100 pounds, she still thinks she’s a lap dog. She is happy and healthy and wonderful and, as you can see, she’s still smiling!

Her favorite thing to do (aside from bugging Katie Kat) is to go hiking, which we do 2-3 times per week. When we hike, she will find a huge stick and as we walk along she’ll stop and spend some time whittling it down from its original hugeness (look closely at the one above, it’s about 5 feet wide). She’s always very proud of her handiwork. My friend and hiking buddy, Susan (who is also one of my wonderful practitioners), calls Daisy “the branch manager”. Her other favorite thing to do is to chase and/or catch frisbees. She prefers the soft side kind and she would do that for hours on end if I would just do that for her (but, alas, I run out of energy after about 20 minutes).

She also loves to go and play with her brother, Boulder, who lives with his mommy, Ranjita, in Oak Creek Canyon. Daisy and Boulder look exactly alike (I don’t have anything but fuzzy pictures of them, because they are always running whenever they’re together). The minute she goes up there, she immediately goes into Ranjita’s beautiful fountain for a little soak. When we get home, she has to rest and recuperate for a couple of days.
Here’s Daisy and Katie Kat together on my bed. Katie will turn 17 this year, I can’t believe it! She’s such a great cat. It is so funny to me that this 8 pound cat is in total control of this 100 pound dog. But she is definitely in control! They get along well, but Daisy can’t understand why the cat doesn’t want to play all the time!
 
 
 
On evenings when I’m home, I say to Katie, “I’m getting the snuggly blanket.” Then I stretch out on the couch and she jumps up and lays on my lap (on the snuggly blanket) as I read or watch TV. Every so often she’ll turn around to look at me and she stares into my eyes. I took this picture of her as she was turning to look at me. I always feel a huge surge of love when she does that.
I always wonder what she’s thinking when she looks at me like that. I hope it’s something more compelling than “mommy, this is boring, can we change the channel?”
 
 
 
 

As I was looking through these photos, I found photos of my sweet Puddin’ (the cat) and Emma (the black dog). Puddin’ was the most amazing cat. She showed up one day in my backyard. My pet psychic at the time said she was the reincarnation of the cat I had in high school. Puddin’ would jump on your lap and then lay on your chest and your heart chakra would just open. This sink was over a heating vent, so it would get very warm in the winter time. Puddin’ loved to sleep in the warm sink.
 
My beautiful Emma also showed up at a time when I wasn’t looking (especially not for a dog), but there she was. What an amazing being. She was so sweet and full of love. She loved to go hiking in Sedona, it was her favorite thing to do. When she passed very suddenly 6 years ago, I was completely devastated. When I communicated with her through a psychic, she said she would bring me my next dog and the story of how she brought Daisy is so funny and sweet and a little amazing.
Emma was a golden retriever/English springer spaniel mix, so we wanted to find another golden mix. We found people outside of Phoenix who breed their pure bred golden retriever, Honey,  with Luke, who is 1/2 golden and 1/2 yellow lab. The result is a dog who is 3/4 golden and 1/4 yellow lab. They’ve developed this breed in order to breed out the problems that the pure bred goldens have with hip dysplasia, etc. The dogs are so smart and sweet that they are very often used as guide dogs.
We contacted them and they said they wouldn’t be having any more litters until fall, plus they had a waiting list of over 20 people so it probably would be a long time before we would be able to get one of their puppies. But we went down to meet them anyway and met Honey and Luke, the mommy and daddy, and saw what great dogs they are.
Suddenly we got a call a few weeks later saying that Honey had gone into heat and although they had quarantined her away from Luke in their Arizona room, one evening there was a storm and the door to the Arizona room had blown open. By the time they noticed that Luke was not in the living room, they discovered Luke and Honey had evidently “done the deed” and, if so, she was probably pregnant. Also, they had contacted everyone on their list and only one other person wanted a dog at that time, so suddenly we were at the top of the list.
I did another session with the psychic to communicate with Emma. I hadn’t told the psychic that we had decided to get one of Honey and Luke’s puppies. In the session, Emma said she was excited about us having our new puppy and then she said “how do you like how I blew the door open?” We hadn’t told anybody the story of the the door blowing open and Honey getting pregnant. Emma had brought Daisy, just as she promised she would!
We were the first ones to see the puppies so we got to choose which one we would take. But the choice was already made. The 3 puppies are identical except for one thing. One of them has a splash of white fur on her chest. Emma had a splash of white fur on her chest. Another sign from Emma that this was our girl.
 
 
 
And then there’s Sammy, who was my pet lion in a past life in Egypt. Edgar Cayce says in his readings that we not only reincarnate with the same people and groups over and over, but also with the same animals and pets. When I think about the incredible relationships I’ve had with these wonderful beings, I know that must be true.
Sammy lived to be 19 and he was so wonderful. He used to lick me all the time and he had a very rough tongue. It always reminded me of a Dennis the Menace cartoon where Dennis is showing his friend Joey a record and he says “It’s a song about how Cowboy Bob loves his horse — it’s called ‘Sandpaper Kisses'”. Sammy was always giving me sandpaper kisses, but that was quite alright with me.
Daisy gives me big wet slurpy kisses and that’s quite alright also. It’s the love in those kisses that means everything, isn’t it?
Would you like to bring peace, joy, love and light into your life or your relationship? It’s not only possible, it’s exactly what happens when you do a Sedona Soul Adventures retreat.
Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us toll free at 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada). For our friends outside the US and Canada call 01 928-204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you.
Wishing you a week filled with big, wet, slurpy kisses,
Debra

Debra Stangl / Founder

Sedona Soul Adventures – Transforming Lives One Soul At A Time
(877) 204-3664
https://old.sedonasouladventures.com

 
Why seeing Machu Picchu and Peru with Jorge Luis Delgado is so completely different and so much better than my first trip to Peru
This past week I was going through old boxes and found the receipts and paperwork from my first trip to Peru in 2003. It was an exploratory trip and I was part of the group, not the tour leader. It was not with Jorge Luis Delgado, because I hadn’t discovered him yet. It was a good trip and it was wonderful to see Machu Picchu and Peru, but it was nothing compared to going there with Jorge, our amazing shaman and guide.
I feel like in that first trip I only saw Peru. With Jorge, we experience these sacred places on all the levels — physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. He takes us not only to Machu Picchu and Ollantaytambo but also to ancient places that are mainly unknown. He takes us to Aramu Muru, the portal to other dimensions that he discovered. This is our 10th time of journeying to Peru with Jorge and I’m as excited as I was during that first amazing trip.
We still have one more space available – join us on this trip of a lifetime.
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If you have questions, please send me an email at:
Debra@SedonaSoulAdventures.com
or give me call – 928/301-2896 – I love talking about Peru!

 
Diane says that after her Soul Adventure she is “overflowing with peace, joy, love and light”
“This was not only my very first retreat but also the first time going away completely alone. From the beginning of my journey to its competition I was filled with such support… joy… and love. At no time did I ever feel alone. I never imagined after such a process I would be feeling so much lighter… clearer… and overflowing with so much peace… joy… love and light! What an amazing experience to say the least. I wish to extend to everyone at SSA and all the Practitioners who were all absolutely awesome that I worked with my deep love and warm-hearted gratitude! I will be back! Namaste’Namaste;’Namaste’”

Diane Sordoni, May 2011

Diane also went to Egypt with me this year. It’s so wonderful to have this on-going connection with people and for them to receive so many on-going benefits.

If you aren't living your life purpose…

Are you living your life purpose? My guess is that if you are reading this, you probably are not living your life purpose. If that’s the case, then there are probably a lot of things going on:

• You might be telling yourself you don’t know what your life purpose is
• You’re probably feeling frustrated
• You probably get cranky
• You probably sometimes feel like you’re running out of time
• You might be telling yourself that “someday” you’re going to figure this out and really start living your life purpose
• You have lots of reasons [excuses] for why you aren’t living your life purpose (not enough money, not enough time, the kids, I’m too young, I’m too old)

I don’t think there is anything that is more demoralizing in life than having that nagging feeling that you’re not living your life purpose because you don’t know what it is. If that’s what’s happening for you, I completely understand and I feel huge compassion. That’s exactly what was happening for me for the greater part of my life. I went to college and then I worked for 3 years and then I went to law school. I practiced law for 20 years and for the first 5 years I kept telling myself that as soon as I felt like I knew what I was doing that I would enjoy it more.
Then for another 5 years I told myself that there was something wrong with me because I didn’t enjoy it.
Then for the next 10 years I just simply hated it. I loved the part where I felt like I was helping my clients, but that only felt like about 20% of what I was doing. I told myself that “someday” I was “somehow” going to figure out what I should really be doing with my life and I was going to do whatever that thing was “someday”. But in the meantime, I was the sole source of income for my family, I had to pay the mortgage payment and the car payments and at least I had a nice house and I got to go on a nice vacation once each year.
It wasn’t enough, but I figured it was the best I could do under the circumstances.
Then in the last 5 years of practicing law, I actively knew I had to do something or I was going to die completely unfulfilled. But rather than getting really motivated and doing something about it, I mainly got depressed and angry. I was in my 40’s and I knew I was running out of time.
But I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I kept telling myself there was no way that I could leave my law practice (and the money and the security) without having a totally clear, 100% complete idea of exactly what I was going to do. The problem was, even after a lot of searching, nothing ever presented itself.
In January of 1999 I went into a deep depression about all this. I felt lost and completely stuck. I felt like there was no way out. I felt like I was wasting my life. But the worst part was, I had no idea what to do.
I was working so hard at this job that I hated that I was completely stressed out and burned out.
It got to the point where I knew I needed to do something. I did a session with the energy worker I worked with in Omaha (where I was living then) and the information that came through was that I needed to do a retreat, to go somewhere on my own. In my head, I heard the word “Sedona”. I had heard of Sedona, but I had never been there.
I decided to go to Sedona for 3 days. I thought I was just going for 3 days to rest. Little did I know that those 3 days would completely change my life.
Even though I had no idea what I was going to do. I just knew I had to leave. The minute I made the decision, miracles started happening. And it ultimately led to me founding Sedona Soul Adventures.
And now so many of the people who come to us come because they know they are supposed to be doing something with their lives. They may not know exactly what that is, but they know they’re supposed to be doing “something”. And it’s so gratifying that part of my life purpose now is to help other people discover and start living their life purpose! It’s kind of amazing when you think about it.
If you know you aren’t living your life purpose and your soul mission, my question to you is “What are you waiting for?” Your life is right now. It doesn’t start next year or when you make some more money or when the kids are out of college. And, by the way, if that’s what you’re doing, you’re modeling for your kids that they should do things they don’t want to do, just for money — is that what you want to be teaching your kids?
Don’t do what I did. For 5 years, I would meditate and pray and tell God “I’m so unhappy, please tell me what to do”. I would hear this voice that would say “You need to leave your law practice” and I would stop the process right there. I would never even explore it. I had so many excuses — money, time, security, status — that I cut it off before any other information could come through. I put myself through 5 more years of unhappiness and depression. I did it to myself, no one else was doing that to me.
If you have that nagging feeling that you’re supposed to be doing something, it won’t go away. It will only get bigger. It will only make you feel more and more unhappy.
There are two things you can do right now. First, stop telling yourself that you don’t know what you’re supposed to do. That keeps you stuck in the energy of “I don’t know”. Start telling yourself, that you are on the path to discovering what you are supposed to be doing. That nagging feeling is the Universe talking to you. That is drawing you onto the path. That is truth.
The second thing you can do right now is to come to Sedona and do a retreat that’s designed to help you discover and implement your life purpose and soul mission. Call and talk to one of our Angel Guides. They are people who (like me) aren’t living “traditional” lives anymore and they will be the first to tell you how amazing that is! I love it that over the years my Angel Guides have included people who were a network news producer, a chiropractor, a high powered marketing exec on Madison Avenue, a mom, a real estate agent, a legal secretary and other very “normal” jobs and lives. They know first hand what it takes to live a life that is on purpose.
Even better, after they have spoken with you, they’ll have a very clear understanding of what you need to uncover and start living your purpose-driven life. They’ll design a retreat that is unique for your circumstances — some people have blocks from events that have happened in their lives that are holding them back, some people have a feeling that they don’t deserve to be happy, some people have influences left over from past lives that are blocking them from coming into their best life now, some people have made soul contracts before they came onto the planet that block them from living in abundance and creativity, and some people just don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing. Every person is different. That’s why we custom design our retreats around exactly what YOU need. And our Angel Guides are masters at figuring that out.
Stop telling yourself you don’t know what you’re supposed to be doing, or how you’re supposed to be doing it and take the positive action to do something about it NOW. Come to Sedona and do a retreat with our master practitioners. Start living the purpose driven life you were born to live.
Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us toll free at 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada). For our friends outside the US and Canada call 01 928-204-5988 or click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you.
Wishing you a week filled with purpose,
Debra

Debra Stangl / Founder

Sedona Soul Adventures – Transforming Lives One Soul At A Time
(877) 204-3664
https://old.sedonasouladventures.com

 
Vicky says that after her Sedona Soul Adventure, “My life is now on a clear path that I am truly excited about.”
“With the help of all the amazing people at Sedona Soul Adventures I feel that I now have clear direction in my life. The experience was full of ‘WOW’ moments and has left me feeling like I have truly come home. My life is now on a clear path that I am truly excited about. Thank you to all those gifted souls – It was inspiring to have met you. My sense of self has been restored.”

Vicky D., Ajax, Ontario, Canada

 
Two more spots left for our Machu Picchu and Peru trip – June 17-30
We have two more spots left for our fabulous Machu Picchu and Peru trip, June 17-30. It’s such an amazing journey – 3 days at Machu Picchu (including doing ceremony on the Solstice, June 21), 5 days on Lake Titicaca, Ollantaytambo, the Sacred Valley, Cuzco and more. Plus being with our shaman and guide, Jorge Luis Delgado, throughout the two weeks is so incredible, including doing ceremonies in these amazing places. And finally, going with other like-minded travelers – it’s certainly the trip of a lifetime.
For information on Pricing Click here
If you’d like to download our Peru Brochure Click here
If you have questions, please send me an email at:
Debra @SedonaSoulAdventures.com
or better yet give me a call – 928/301-2896 – I love talking about Peru!
If you know you’re supposed to go on this trip – make the decision now.