Book, CD and DVD suggestions:
But You Knew That Already : What a Psychic Can Teach You About Life
I had never heard of Dougall Fraser before I found an excerpt of his book online. I still haven't ever seen, or heard, him do a reading. But this book touched my heart. It was a personable and, more importantly, realistic memoir about how Dougall embraced, and honed, his psychic abilities. I learned so much from this book. You will enjoy it.

Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
For years, one of the things I was most concerned about was trying to define what my life purpose is. While I wasn't able to define it in a sentence or two after reading this book, I found myself having a greater acceptance of my own uniqueness and knowing, even though my journey wasn't going to play itself out in the same way it does for other people, it was important for me to honor my talents and passions.

Start Where You Are : A Guide to Compassionate Living
While I'm not a practicing Buddhist, there are many aspects of Buddhism I feel drawn to. From my experience, there are no better teachings on how to be more compassionate, kind and loving. About ten years ago, I checked out Pema Chodron's audio program called "Awakening Compassion" from the library. This introduction to her changed my life. Since then, I have read nearly everything this Buddhist nun has written. I recommend "Start Where You Are..." as being one of her very best books.

The Circle
I love Laura Day's book "Practical Intuition". I was excited to read this one when it was first published. I bought a copy, looked through it and realized it didn't feel quite right. For years it sat on the shelf. Then one day, I took it down and gave it another chance. I've been using the manifesting technique Day offers ever since. It's simple. It's beautiful and it works.

Visioning: 10 Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams
Sometimes I find I just don't have the patience to go through manifesting rituals such as affirmations, visualizations, etc. I have to admit, I bought this book reluctantly. However, I gave it a chance and did several of the exercises. I found the act of doing things like making collages was very therapeutic. The other day, I found the first collage I made. I was surprised to see how many of the things I had desired back then did come into fruition. I think there's at least a couple of exercises in this book that would appeal to you.

Meditation Week by Week: 52 Meditations to Help You Grow in Peace and Awareness
Meditation has become a vital part of my life. At times, doing meditations which involve only focusing on the breath can feel somewhat boring. The weekly meditations I found in this book were really quite inspiring. Many of them helped me to look at the world around me more closely and examine things in a much more gentle and thoughtful way. They allowed me to get creative with my meditations. I loved that. This book is a great resource.

The Power of Now
I have to be honest, even though I found this book invaluable, I found the writing style to be a bit dry. I recommend listening to the audio version of this remarkable book which explains the importance of living in the moment and how begin doing so.

Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food
One of the things that has made a huge impact in my life (and something I have to work hard at doing each day) is to eat mindfully. It is truly amazing how simply sitting and doing nothing else but focusing on the process of eating can be such a satisfying experience. This book helped me learning to ease into the practice and reaffirmed its important.

Living With Joy
This book is incredible. Actually, all the books by this author have been outstanding. I know many spiritual/self-help books, pretty much, offer the same message: love yourself. The trick is to find a book written in a way that really speaks to you. This book and this author did it for me. Check it out.

Personal Power Through Awareness
Written by the same author of "Living With Joy", this book blew my mind. Not only that, it changed the way I look at everything in life and how I conduct my readings. The constant in this book is the idea that everything is energy. Once you begin to embrace that idea, it makes you think differently about how you conduct your life. If you get only one book from those I have recommended, get this one.

Change Your Life in 30 Days

During the month of August, 2006, I spent each day working with the Rhonda Britten book. It was hard work, but worth the time spent doing each chapter's exercises. It's one thing to analyze oneself, but it's another to get brutally honest. This book, in a very straightforward manner, helps you to focus in on what really motivates you to make the choices you do.

The Secret
I've begun to become more conscious of the Law of Attraction and apply it more to my life. One of the things that really helped me to better understand attraction was a documentary a friend told me about called .
From the official Web site:
This ground-breaking feature length movie presentation reveals The Great Secret of the universe. It has been passed throughout the ages, traveling through centuries to reach you. This is The Secret to everything--the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted. In this astonishing program are ALL the resources you will ever need to understand and live The Secret. For the first time in history, the world's leading scientists, authors, and philosophers will reveal The Secret that utterly transformed the lives of every person who ever knew it--Plato, Newton, Carnegie, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Einstein. Now YOU will know The Secret. And it can change your life forever.

Experience The Power of Grace
In April, 2006, I got the chance to attend Cheryl Richardson's Experience The Power of Grace workshop. It was incredible. Cheryl is selling a 6-CD audio recording of her workshop. I highly recommend purchasing them. From the Web site:
Join Cheryl as she explores ways to see and experience the power of grace in your life. As you listen to this six-CD set, you'll learn:
-The six stages of awakening to grace.
-How to see your life through the lens of grace How to see signs of grace in your every day life.
-How to identify your "spiritual change agents."
-How to surrender during those times when you desperately want to control the outcome.
-How to trust in Divine timing when you want something right now.
-How to use life's challenges as a call to spiritual action.
-Why balancing activity with silence is crucial to experiencing grace, and how to easily develop a consistent practice of silence.
-How to become a conduit of grace for others.
-Fascinating brain research about the power of  meditation.

Big Mind/Big Heart Revealed
While I'm not a Buddhist, I often seem to find myself drawn to Buddhist teachings to help define my own spirituality. Recently, I came across a two DVD set called Big Mind/Big Heart Revealed. The DVDs are powerful. Simply put, Zen Master Genpo Roshi calls upon various parts of our being (The Controller, The Fixer, The Damaged Self, Big Heart, etc) and allows that part of us to speak. This helps make one much more aware of where the feelings and thoughts we have originate. After watching these DVDs, I found myself more understanding and compassionate of why I react to things as I do.
From the Web site:
Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi, one of the preeminent Zen Masters in the Western world, has developed a unique and revolutionary approach for transmitting the authentic teachings that emerged from Buddha's enlightenment experience. With a mastery born of more than thirty years of teaching, Genpo Roshi has enabled thousands of participants in Big Mind workshops to gain profound insights and taste for themselves the illuminating experience from which Buddhism and all the world's great religions originate.
In The Big Mind DVD Roshi leads us on a voyage of self-discovery through the basic aspects of mind that he often explores in his workshops. The first disc takes participants through the personal, dualistic, aspects of mind; the second through the transpersonal, transcendent.

 The Secret of Deliberate Creation
In late December, I began planning and visualizing all that I wanted to create in 2007. I went out searching for anything that would give me a new, fresh perspective on how to manifest things. I came across a man and an audio program I hadn't heard of before. The man is Dr. Robert Anthony and the program is called The Secret of Deliberate Creation. Often times, books and audio about the law of attraction contain a great deal of new age language which distracts from the simplicity and practicality of manifesting. The thing I appreciated about Dr. Anthony's program was that the process is described in a very straightforward manner which made comprehending it all that much easier.

For me, the best part of the program was when he likened abundance to downloading something from the Internet--there is always enough downloads for everyone because there is an unlimited supply.
From the Web site:
...The Secret of Deliberate Creation home study program will change your life. There is nothing else like it!
The Secret of Deliberate Creation is designed to give you a complete manifestation program that explains a much deeper connection between success and the immutable laws of the universe. It delves into the one-on-one connection between thought, feeling, action, and results.
...If you are SERIOUS about changing your life and moving up to the next level of success - this is the program for you!