I was very excited when Oprah offered a 10-week online course with Eckhart Tolle. It felt like the Universe was confirming to me that I was ready to learn! All these tools I was receiving, free of charge, is a sign that there is still more learning to do in order to continually upgrade my life.

I promised myself that I would participate every Monday on Oprah’s course especially because I had just finished reading Tolle’s other book titled “The Power of Now”.

That promise, unfortunately was not kept. After the first week of trying to follow the class with millions of others, I decided the technical difficulties with Skype were unavoidable and therefore decided to take the course, offline, at a later date. This date has now been scheduled.

I start reading chapter one (again) from “A New Earth — Awaken Your Life’s Purpose” next week!

I have been reprogramming my mind so much in the last 2 years (since December 2006 actually) that I have failed to note which book or program works and which doesn’t. For example, when I first started in December, I found immense healing and rejuvenation from Brain Sync’s audio titled “The Secret Universal Mind”. It’s a meditation program guided by Kelly Howell—and was sourced from Uelle S. Andersen’s book called “Three Magic Words“.

The meditation gave me hope in one listening. Overnight, literally, through a dream, my subconscious told me that road may be steep and winding but I will get home safely and happy. I know what you are thinkin—”in a dream, this came to me”. But it did, and I had shared this dream in detail with my friends at The Learning Strategies forum. I was overjoyed because no other program before than had worked “MAGIC” - wonder if they still keep the archives?

I still remember the dream as if it just happened yesterday. And because the dream was induced by this meditation (I believe—very much so!) I got hooked on the subject of laws of attraction, the study of self talk and self esteem and the subconscious mind.

Eckhart’s books bring another dimension of learning for me. They are teaching me to, simply “chill”. If you are a regular visitor of my blog you will have noticed that I mentioned my personality is similar to Julia Roberts (gregarious). My behaviour however is pretty much in synch with Bridget Jones’ (act before thinking).

Actually, I should say “used to be” in both cases because today things in my life have changed quite a bit! Recently, three great things happened in my life. In the past, I would have gone to everyone and shared this immense joy with people who cared (or not) about me. Today, however, my reaction is that of a silent thanks and move on as if nothing happened.

If you knew the old me, you would know that this is a huge deal for me! And I personally am amazed because my reaction or decision to pacify the joy was not conscious. Nor was the intent (for these things to touch me) conscious.

I wanted these three things to happen, but I didn’t pray for them or do anything to make it happen except every so often, when I would feel grateful about how far my life has come since December 2006, I would over joyously state my thanks and how great it would be if XYZ happened!

XYZ did happen! And my reaction to achieving these desires is totally out of character of who I used to be! And I must say that I love the new me!

And because I attribute my change in behaviour mostly to Tolle (Nathaniel Branden gets all the credit for changing self talk and self esteem), I have decided to take my time and enjoy reading this new book without any distractions.

This means no other books to read but this one. And, dedicate a full quite hour of reading and then another 2.0 hours following up with Oprah’s online conversation and completing the workbook on relating chapter. That’s 3.0 hours once a week, starting Sunday, April 13, 2008.

Tolle in this book says “a glimpse is enough to initiate the awakening process, which is irreversible”. I believe, I was given this privilege in 2006 through Three Magic Words meditation. I believe, for myself, it proved irreversible because my life has since sought out more consciousness through personal development. Tolle’s “The Power of Now” was a deep and profound learning for me. It made me realize a lot about myself. This new book, “A New Earth”, I am hoping is going to reinforce the teachings of “The Power of Now”.

I know I am ready to find my life’s purpose!