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Jennifer: Welcome everyone to Healing With The Masters. You know that word masters, it has a lot of

different meanings, but while we may think of masters as the wonderful guests that share their knowledge and experiences with us each week, I consider you to be the master. Each of you in this audience, you the participant, no one knows you better than you. And no one is more uniquely qualified to transform your life than you. Today we will together discover the tools and techniques to heal, to continue to shift your life into love and light and in the process truly make a difference on this beautiful planet of ours. Together we are a powerful community. I think you’ve been hearing from this series this year that you really matter. You make the difference. You light up the world.

And today we are so blessed and honored to have Sarah McLean with us. Sarah is not related

although we call ourselves soul sisters. Sarah is an inspiring contemporary meditation teacher who makes meditation accessible to everyone. She has spent much of her life exploring the world’s spiritual and mystic traditions, and has worked with some of today’s greatest teachers including Deepak Chopra, Byron Katie, Debbie Ford, and Gary Zukav. And when I say work, I don’t mean work under, she’s actually worked with them. They’ve hired her. She actually ran the Chopra center on the West Coast for many years. So she’s been creating programs and assisting these folks in their adventures of leadership. And now she’s finally come out of the closet, yeah, and she is here to teach us about meditation and life.

It’s funny because Sarah has been talking about meditation since I’ve know her for the last

almost two years, and I’m like, “Yeah, yeah, meditation, yeah, yeah.” I do my thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sarah. You can go do meditation, but I have to tell you that since reading her book, I actually started meditating and oh, my God, the way that Sarah offers what meditation is, is so in alignment with where were we are at in this powerful year of 2012, where all of the speakers have been guiding us to, on this remarkable 2012 Volume 9 series. And I think Sarah’s participation at this moment of time is so incredibly synchronistic and perfect, because she not only brings a high vibrating energy signature, I’ve watched her transfix a room just by entering it. As soon as she starts the meditative process, there’s a special energy zing that’s part of that process that you guys are already starting to experience from this remarkable woman.

And on top of that, she brings such compassion, such enthusiasm, and passion for this, and

really is allowing us, I think, to be guided to a new place of what meditation is and can be. And that it isn’t this old ancient thing. It’s a new modern process that Sarah is going to be sharing with us tonight, and something that can really remarkably change your life and act as a clearing tool, act as something that can move you into new directions.



So that was a very long introduction, but I wanted people to really kind of pay attention to

this, because it’s a really important and powerful call. Welcome, Sarah McLean, to Healing With The Masters. It’s really an honor to have you.

Sarah: Thank you, Jennifer McLean, my soul sister. It’s great to be here. I’m sorry about the webcast

isn’t completely working, but I’m — Jennifer: Yeah, we’re having a few technical difficulties as you’re listening to the replay. The live show

was having some technical difficulties. We haven’t been able to get our replay and the phone numbers to show on the site. I have to tell you, Sarah, I got really, really stressed as you could hear on the pre‐call.

Sarah: Yes, I could hear it. Jennifer: I don’t know if anyone noticed that. I was so subtle. So why don’t we dive in there. Why

don’t we use the moment and talk about stress, because it is one of the tenets in your book. You have really eight beautiful qualities in your book, and one of the, the second one I believe, is stress. Peace — less stress, more peace.

Sarah: Right, right. Well, basically stress occurs and you can attest to this, stress occurs when what

you want does not manifest. When you are attached to something, when what you hope to have does not appear. Whether it’s a parking space close to the store, whether it’s a check that clears, or a credit card that goes through, or whether it’s the love of your life and they’re not here. Stress occurs when anything gets in the way of your desire. And so that’s just one of the ways that stress happens. Stress can occur from not getting enough sleep or good food or enough down time or it can happen when you’re in an environment with too much noise or are constantly being interrupted. So stress is a real deal that actually, I believe, is one of the biggest spiritual obstacles in our lives today, especially today.

So stress accumulates in an undetected way often. And here’s how I look at it. You know, you

mentioned that I worked with Deepak Chopra, and I started when we were really immersed in Ayurveda, his book Perfect Health had just come out, and I went to volunteer at a center in Massachusetts. And I was really attracted to mind, body, health, but everybody who came to this center was told they had to start a meditation practice. Now, I didn’t quite understand this. It was all new to me. I was just there to immerse myself in it. And I came to realize very quickly that what meditation does is it helps to alleviate the stress in the nervous system. The stress in the nervous system can get in the way of your mind‐body connection, your body’s ability to naturally settle down and heal, your body’s ability to maintain higher states of awareness, higher states of consciousness.

And so what happens is when the stress accumulates, whether it’s in this moment like acute

stress for you, or whether it’s this chronic kind of being in a relationship that’s not nourishing or standing up while you eat, or just going to a job that you really don’t like, when it’s — when stress starts to accumulate, I look at it this way. I look at it as if it’s a veil that masks who you really are from radiating, from totally expressing itself. And it keeps you from experiencing your own beauty and truth and love and peace.


So for me, stress is the number one obstacle to a beautiful, peaceful, soulful life. So for me, I prefer to avoid stress as we all do, but if we can’t do that —

Jennifer: — shows up as it did tonight. It just kind of shows up. There it is. Sarah: You know, you asked me earlier today to talk about something called beginners mind. You

know, we talked about what our intention was for the call and what the listeners would experience and I was really excited about it. And we talked about having expectations, and I said there’s nothing wrong with having an intention and to truthfully want something to go a certain way and really hold that intention in your heart. But then when it comes down to it, we have to let go of our attachment to the outcome, and we have to let go of aversion to what is. So this is the perfect teaching opportunity, because maybe you were attached to having it go a certain way.

Jennifer: I was attached to having it go a certain way. I love and adore you so much, and I wanted this

to be a magnificent experience. I was completely attached to an outcome. Sarah: Let’s talk about that. How are you doing in this moment right now? Right now, right now if

your mind slips into what’s going on with the computer, just be right here. Feel your breath. I know the mind wants to override, but just feel the breath.

Jennifer: Yeah, I’m feeling some emotions show up. Sarah: Right, okay, good. Emotions. You know what, emotion is energy in motion. We know that,

and emotion can only be felt in the present moment. In the moment you’re in, so feel it right now. Just let yourself feel whatever that emotion is.

Jennifer: Okay. Sarah: You don’t have to express it unless you really feel the urge, but just find it in your body. Find

where this emotion resides, where it’s moving. Jennifer: And the rest of us can be doing this too, right? Sarah: Yes. Any emotion. Anything you can think of. I had this going on yesterday. It was very

intense for me. But when an emotion arises, we’ve done our best to avert it, to distract ourselves, but what if we move towards it? Move toward an uncomfortable emotion.

Jennifer: Okay. Sarah: Move towards it. Love it with your intention. And when the thoughts arise, just come back to

the actual sensation that you’re having, not your thoughts about it. Jennifer: Oh, well, that’s an interesting distinction. Just sensing the emotion, period. Sarah: Feeling the energy in motion. Jennifer: Feeling the energy in motion.


Sarah: Feeling it. Whether it’s a tightness in your chest, some tightness in your throat, stomach hurts.

I don’t know where it is in your body. It’s different for everyone. Some people go cold. Some people get hot. People feel tense.

Jennifer: I become a sweat ball. Sarah: You’re a sweat ball, okay. So what if you have no thoughts about being a sweat ball and just

enjoyed the feeling of being a little wet? Jennifer: Okay, I can play with that. Sarah: Yeah, you know, perfectly designed. This creator — this creation is perfectly organized and

designed to give us exactly what we need when we need it. So instead of trying to — obviously you want to do your very best and change it so everybody can be on this call, but on the other hand, this is it. This is what we’ve got right here. This moment right now is what is going on, and when we try to avert or if we try to suppress it or wish it were different, it’s more painful. And we want to have a less stressed life.

When I was meditating before the call I had this thought. You asked me to talk about

beginners mind. A beginners mind, here’s the cowan [phonetic]. We were talking about cowans on the pre‐call, somebody was. It was beautiful. And what I was coming up with is well, it’s not a cowan. It’s a saying that I say. You never know what’s going to happen next. You never know what’s going to happen next. And that’s true in any moment. And we talked about beginners mind. Beginners mind is a really sweet way to go into a meditation. And maybe we can start after I describe beginners mind to you, but beginners mind is a really sweet way to go into a meditation, because it really allows for the potential and possibility in any moment to unfold.

And it’s often better than you could have ever dreamt. You know when they ask you in high

school what do you want to be when you grow up — what college do you want to go to? Of course I was saying, how could I possibly know as a 16 year old? How could I possibly know that? But other people knew exactly what they were going to be and what college they were going to and what they were ultimately going to end up doing. And I kept thinking I cannot dream big enough for this life. So I like to have intention, but then let it go. You never know what’s going to happen next.

So the “I know mind” the one that says, oh, if I sit down and meditate, or if I do this or if I do

that, it’s going to be like this. You know, if I got to this restaurant, I know exactly what it’s going to be like. If I have — if I run into this friend, it’s going to be like this. If I spend time with my mother, it’s going to be like this. If I say this to my partner, it’s going to go like this. And that “I know mind”, that mind that always wants to be right and controlling can get in the way of the possibility that exists when we step aside and step into our beginners mind.

So I say that because as a meditation teacher here in Sedona, I notice a lot of people come in

with a lot of preconceived notations about meditation, especially here in Sedona where I live permanently and I love having Jennifer come and hang out with me a couple of months a year, and you know, it’s known for its mystical environment. It’s known for its surrounds that


cultivate your spiritual advancement or evolution. And so what I find is people come here and they go I want to meet my spirit guides. I want to meet my animal totems. I want to have that kundalini experience. I want to see auras. I want to know my past lives. And what happens is when they are attached or maybe they’ve had that experience before, when they approach meditation it keeps them from having the experience that they are going to have when they’re looking for some other experience.

I can explain this in a different way, but I want to make sure that you’re okay over there,

Jennifer. Jennifer: Yeah, I’m good. I’m feeling much better now after that little practice. Thank you. Sarah: Oh, sometimes we just want to grin and bear it and move on beyond it. And say, “I’ll feel that

later when the call is over.” Well, guess what? With emotions you can’t feel them again later. You can’t feel those later, you can feel something similar, and that’s the same for intuition. And that’s the same for inspiration. It takes a moment.

Jennifer: It’s a moment‐by‐moment thing. Sarah: That’s our life. Jennifer: And this notion of the beginners mind can bring you to that opportunity to be in a place of the

moment and allowing so that you can be in that beginners mind. That’s kind of the key here, isn’t it? That beginners mind gets you there.

Sarah: It’s a practice. It’s a practice. You know, you could look — I do this a lot with an eating

awareness exercise. And I’m sure many of you have done this if you go to retreats, or you can do this at home. You can take a piece of fruit or raisin and sit down and give yourself some deep breaths, and turn off the television, don’t get any reading material, turn off your cell phone, and grab a piece of the fruit or pick it up and hold it in your hand and really look at it, and really notice the weight of it, the texture of it, the way the light reflects off the skin. Feel it. Bring it up to your nose and smell it and look at it as if for the first time. And then you take a bite out of it, and don’t swallow it, but simply chew it and go through each sense. You’ve gone through the sense of sight, the sense of touch, feel the fruit in your mouth as you chew it. You go through the sense of smell. Smelling it, how does it smell after you took a bite? Listen for the sense of sound. You know, food makes noise when you chew it. And there’s actually a sense of sound with that.

So you look at it. You smell it. You taste it. You touch it. You feel it. You hear it. And as you

do that without a conversation about it, simply having the direct experience of the sensation, then you are in the beginners mind. And it’s a practice we want to practice. For instance, I was down in Scottsdale and we have all of these beautiful wildflowers coming out right now and the birds are all busy making their nests and it’s just a beautiful time of the year in the desert. And so I was walking through this garden and this woman said, “Oh, well that is —“ I don’t know what she called it.

Jennifer: Bird of Paradise.


Sarah: Bird of Paradise. You just read the chapter. That’s a Bird of Paradise, and I didn’t — you know, I know what that is, but I wasn’t looking to label it. I was enjoying the abundance of it. I mean it was a massive plant, and I was just enjoying the complete abundance of it. The colors, and the contrast, and the shapes, and the silhouettes, and the shadows, and just totally enjoying it and watching it and being with it. When we label something we separate from it.

The same thing with this beautiful bird song right now, and you probably hear them, Jennifer.

These birds are just going wild now and they’re just beautifully singing away and calling for mates, and I don’t know. It’s gorgeous. If we sit still and we listen rather than trying to identify the bird and have our mind start to get in the way of our experience, then we can fully enjoy the sound. You’re soul songs are like that. When we’re not waiting to label it. When we’re not identifying a melody. When we’re just leaning back into our lives and enjoying what is, we completely are having the direct experience of our life. Like you are having the direct experience of your emotions when I had you follow it in your body.

You have the direct experience of the fruit when you eat it without naming it. You have the

direct experience of an emotion when it arises — a sensation, an inspiration, and everything in your life when you eliminate the labeling, the differentiation, the good the bad. You know, what did Rumi say? He said, “Outside of ideas of right doing and wrong doing”. And I’ll say, outside of labels there is a field and I’ll meet you there. And it’s a field of experience. It’s a field of direct experience of this life. You know, in that chapter I talk about this woman who has this husband who sounds, in my opinion, to be a really nice guy. He spends most of his time with her. In the morning they have breakfast together. They have dinner together every night. He takes her out on these beautiful trips and on these beautiful dates and he plays Scrabble with her. It sounds like he’s a really sweet man. He tells her he loves her. He holds her hand. But she has another idea of what love should look like. She has another idea of what should be going on in the perfect relationship.

Now, where does she get these ideas? She could get them from television, from

advertisements, from books she’s read, from what her friends say, from what she’s been taught in her culture, but while he’s holding her hand and telling her that he loves her, she wants him to be saying things like, “Gosh, you look beautiful tonight, and where would you like to go eat?” And while he’s spending his time with her and playing Scrabble with her, she wants him instead to be doing something that she saw on a commercial where they’re running along the beach in some palm tree lined area.

So while he’s giving her what he would call love, while he is loving and attentive to her, she’s

not having the direct experience of it, because it’s being filtered through her “I know mind”. She’s separated from her experience.

Jennifer: But when we separate — some of the stuff that you talk about in your book which I love so

much, is about taking into a meditation and going into meditation to change the vibration of your overarching life. But you’re also talking about a walking meditation where we can change these things like stopping — you say in your book like studying tons of books and so on is not the same as experiencing. And you say the ideas of life can overshadow actual reality.

Sarah: Right. So your ideas of romance, your ideas of fun. I mean, look at the crazy beer commercials

or Coca Cola commercials. I mean, everybody looks like they’re having the most ecstatic time


in their lives. So you’re drinking a Coca Cola or a beer and you’re not having the same experience they’re having, so you can’t even enjoy what you’re doing. But the thing is we have ideas for things like happiness and love and romance. We have ideas for intimacy. We have ideas for things — spirituality. And it can get in the way of what the reality is.

Jennifer: Even spirituality can get in the way. I’ve seen this. The jargon and the judgments from the —

I’ve seen people move away from everything that they’re talking about. Sarah: Well, for me I was one of those people that had an idea of what spirituality was. So what did I

do? You know, I’d been meditating for a while and it’s always an evolution, as you know, because you’re in this conversation regularly. And I love to be in this conversation as well as your listeners are in this conversation regularly. So what happens? So I start meditating and I put this bumper sticker on my car. It’s all good, right? Because at this point now I’m spiritual, and it’s all good.

Jennifer: You’re so spiritual. Sarah: It’s not all good. I can tell you right now sometimes it’s not good when a loved one dies.

Sometimes it’s not good when you get a diagnosis of cancer. Sometimes it’s not good when you lose your job. Now, in the overall experience of life, it may be a little thing, or in the overall view of life it may have worked out for the best in your case, but while you’re experiencing it, like you experienced earlier, it’s not all good.

So I had this bumper sticker on my car, so if something awful happened, I just pretended my

way through it. I did what’s called a spiritual bypass, because I had labels of what spirituality was. We have labels for what God is. We have labels for what people’s religions are. We have labels for different types of people and we don’t see the people because we see the label.

So it goes back to the fruit. If I say to you, you know, I have these peaches — and it’s in my

book. I have these peaches they grow unbelievably in my backyard and they’re just so abundant and it’s so exciting to go out there and pick them off the tree and wipe some of the fuzz off and smell them and take a bite out of them. The juice just runs down the side of my face, and it’s the most amazing experience, but no matter how much I talk to you about it, Jennifer, and the listeners here, how much I tell you about this peach, you’re never going to have this experience. You’re going to have your own experience when you eat the peach.

So we can talk all day long about what romance is and what spirituality is and what peaches

taste like and what the perfect relationship is like, and what high vibration is, but unless we have the experience, it’s just all mental gyration.

Jennifer: So let’s talk about the experience, shall we? Sarah: No. Jennifer: Yes, we should. And I think — I mean, I want to have the experience of what you’re talking

about here. I mean, you positioned this beginners mind in a really beautiful way that when we can bring that attention to that place of I don’t know.


Sarah: Yeah. Jennifer: To that place of a presence that you just talked about with the peach and with moving through

the garden. It’s an absolute place of presence, and within that, what’s going on? I mean, what is going on with — let’s talk a little bit about awareness and attention.

Sarah: Okay. That’s the primary — that is really what this book is about even though it goes on and

on for eight weeks, it’s really about taking back — Jennifer: Go on and on for eight weeks? Sarah: Yeah. It’s an eight‐week program, but you know this is the truth about it. I’ll just give you the

Cliff Notes. You know, when you meditate, and this is what I learned. When I began my meditation practice, I became more powerful. And I’m not talking about power over things and over people and power over my creativity, and power over this or that, I am talking about I was more powerful in terms of my intentions in my life. This is what I mean. When you have — when you meditate, you’re able to train your attention. And you train it in three ways through a meditation practice whether you’re paying attention in meditation to a body sensation, or some — a candle flame, or your breath, or a mantra. Whatever you’re paying attention to in meditation; you’re starting to train your attention to stay focused.

Now, we’re training at most of the waking state to be divided, to be multi tasking, which by

the way causes a lot of stress. But when we meditate, we start to train our attention to focus on one thing at a time. And it’s been said over and over and proven over and over that meditation helps us to be more clear and to be more focused mentally. Now, what I find is that I start to become more clear and focused mentally, and I start to pay attention to what I pay attention to.

So what I mean by this is your attention though it is vast and it’s powerful, everybody wants it.

Think about your kids, your dog, your spouse, your partner, the ads on TV, billboards you drive past, the music on the radio. When you’re walking into a mall or a shopping center, everybody wants to grab your attention just a sliver of it. And we give what we make — people make first impressions in seven seconds with us. Everybody is trying to get our attention. Why is that? Just because they want to motivate you, but guess what? You when you realize that your attention is being diverted from what you’ve decided you want to pay attention to, you can start to take back control. Meditation helps you to become more aware of what you’re paying attention to. It helps you be more focused so you can focus your attention on what you want, and it helps you to be in the present moment, because whether you’re paying attention to a candle flame, a breath, the body sensations, a mantra, those are all in the present moment of your practice.

So when the thoughts come in, “Oh, gosh. This isn’t working today. I should meditate

tomorrow when I’m clearer.” Those thoughts are the distractions. They are the advertisements. They’re the billboards that we say thank you for sharing and we go back to the focus of our meditation. So not only are we training our focus to be — training our attention to be focused, but we are training our attention to be in the present moment.


And so this is a very important thing. And then I want to ask both you, Jennifer, and the people who are listening; I want you while you’re listening to me to turn your attention to the one who’s listening. The one who’s hearing my voice. The one who dialed the phone. The one who turned on this webcast. I want you to pay attention to that choice maker, to the one who’s listening now. When you turn your attention inward, there’s a presence there. This presence is the real you. It is your essence. It is your beingness, what I like to call your soul. And this presence has been with you since you were born. And it’s the witness to your life. It is your essential self.

Unfortunately, most of us have the experience of being distracted from this source, from our

own being, from our own soul. I was talking earlier about that layer of stress that sort of masks and veils. It veils our own presence from ourselves. We’re externally focused. We’re paying attention to the external. So meditation helps you to refocus, to re‐center on this aspect of you; the real you.

So when I asked you the question, everybody did this when you were on the pre‐show. People

were talking about what they did that day and who they are and things about themselves. And I’ve got to say that when you ask — when someone asks you how are you, or who are you? What do you use to gauge your answer? Do you use how your day is going, how you physically feel, any accomplishments you have, any successes, or failures? Do you measure it that way? If someone says, “Who are you?” Do you give them your history where you grew up, where you live, what you do for a living, your relationships, tell them what you’re driving? Which by the way was on the call earlier. So what do we do? How do we place ourselves in this reality? And what I’m suggesting is there’s another way to answer that question.

Jennifer: So right now many of us place ourselves in association with something else. Sarah: Absolutely. Jennifer: What we’re attached to. What we think makes us important, worth it. Sarah: Yeah, or something that somebody can relate to. Jennifer: Something they can relate to, right. Sarah: It really usually has something to do with the external world — positions and possessions. Jennifer: Positions and possessions, right. Sarah: And our experiences and our dreams. That’s really what we’re doing. So what I like to suggest

people try to do in this moment is to answer the question, “who are you”, with some other attribute — some other attribute. I just did this the other day with two women who are visiting Sedona. It was a little challenging for them, and they came up with, “I’m loving. I’m caring. I’m compassionate. I’m patient. I’m a good listener. I’m forgiving.” And, Jennifer, you know, what would you say?

Jennifer: I’m generous.


Sarah: Uh‐huh. Jennifer: I love big. Sarah: You love big. Jennifer: I love big. I’m compassionate. Sarah: Right, who you really are is so much more than your name. Jennifer: Yeah, I’m the host of Healing With The Masters. That’s different. I get it. So there’s a — you

just led me, tricked me right to going to I am. Man, you’re good. Sarah: Oh, yeah. So I am — I am the host of Healing With The Masters. No, more likely you are, I am.

You know, mystics for centuries have been trying to identify and talk about and give attributes to this quality of I am. And it’s so difficult. I had to write a book about it, but it’s so difficult to explain something you can’t see or smell or taste or touch or hear. But just like the subtle qualities of creation whether it be gravity or electricity or electromagnetism, just like those are subtle and you can’t see them, smell them, taste them, touch them, or hear them, you can experience their effects. And the same thing is true for this actual presence of yours. I can feel the effects of your presence, and everybody can. If you’re talking to someone and that person is distracted, you know it. Their attention is not with you. You can feel the effects of someone’s soul in your space and where they direct their attention, because as I said, meditation helps you to take your power back. It helps you to focus your attention on where and who and what you want.

And the source of that attention is your soul. The soul is the source of your own power. And

as I said, it’s hidden in plain sight. They say oftentimes what you’re looking for is what is looking. What you’re looking for is what is looking. So the experience of meditation is really an unveiling of the soul. You were born soulful. Most of us are born with this totally unified experience of life. There’s no separation between you and the tree and the mother. There’s no ideas about love and what a strawberry should taste like and what a vacation should be like. There’s just this welcoming receptive open loving attention. There’s no division. And we divined and we divide and we label and we learn that the word table — and that means table and mom means mom. Then we learn mine. Mine, yours, separating —

Jennifer: Mine, mine. Sarah: So what happens is we start — that’s when the stress begins. So our job is to be peaceful. Our

job is to unveil the layer of stress and uncover the peace that we are. Uncover the love that we are. Uncover the generosity and the spirit that we are.

Jennifer: And through your process, this really beautiful process that you go through in your book and

we’ve got some audios that we can talk about later too, that it really guides you very simply through. You know, it’s amazing, because meditation to me takes — and Drunvalo talked about this. It takes 10 to 20 years. And my experience through what you’re teaching us right now, right here, through just these simple things of attention and claiming I am, through


training our attention, through unveiling what the stress is and allowing the emotions. These things actually allow us to have — to go right into a practice of meditation in minutes.

Sarah: Absolutely. And there are preconceived notations of what needs to happen in meditation. I

have to say I’ve outlined probably 15 to 20 meditative practices, which is different than meditation as a seated formal practice. And there’s no one right or wrong way to do it, but there are some essentials that are really important for a successful practice, which I can tell you about very quickly here.

Jennifer: Please. Sarah: The first one is that you will always have thoughts and meditation; even if the thought is a

mantra; even if the thought is what time is it; even if the thought is this is going great. But more often than not the thoughts are, “Oh, my God. I forgot to send that email. This isn’t working. What’s going to happen next? I’m not having that experience I had yesterday. I want what she had. How come I’m not transcending? How come I haven’t met this or that?” So you’re always going to have thoughts in meditation. It does not mean you are doing it wrong. It simply means that you need, once you realize it, you simply need to refocus back to the focus in your meditation. It’s just that simple. And in my book and in some of the products that we’ve come up with that were so fun to do, I talk about why thoughts occur, why twitches occur in meditation, why you feel hot or cold, why you have these emotions that run through your body in meditation.

So the second essential is to be very nice to yourself. You might have been sitting there for

five minutes and realize that you haven’t even meditated. All you’ve been doing is your to‐do list for tomorrow and if you realize it, it’s not helpful to beat yourself up. What is helpful is to be very kind to yourself, be very gentle, and return your attention back to the focus of your meditation.

The third essential, and these are in no particular order, is to be easy on yourself. Don’t try too

hard. Meditation is a natural process. It’s like sleep. It’s like falling in love. It’s like being creative. And when we try hard, it keeps us on the level of the thinking process. And meditation is a practice of settling down the nervous system, transcending the activity of the environment, the activity of the body, the activity of the mind, and actually transcending and going beyond all of that to have the direct experience of your own soul. A direct experience of your own soul. Now, you cannot think your way there, so do not try too hard. You have to simply relax into it.

The next essential I would say is don’t give up. Don’t give up in the middle of a practice. So if

you sat down and you decided you’re going to meditate for 10 minutes and 2 minutes into it you have an idea that you forgot to return a phone call or there’s something on the stove — now, if there is something on the stove, you want to take it off, but if it’s a phone call, guess what? It can wait another four minutes. You know, so go through the practice. The mind is going to want your attention and we are in meditation what we do is we start to loosen the hold of our reactivity to our own thoughts. We loosen the hold of the reactivity to our own thoughts. So this is helpful, because outside of meditation you are also loosening the hold of your reactivity to your own thoughts. Very peaceful. Very, very peaceful. There’s a spaciousness that starts to be cultivated.


I don’t know if that was all five. You always — the ones are: You always have to be kind to

yourself. Don’t give up. Stick with it. Oh, we talked about the other one. Don’t try too hard. There’s no need to try hard. As I said, it’s very effortless. And we talked about the other one, which is beginners mind. Go in with an innocence — a childlike awareness. Let what’s going to happen, happen. It’s always going to be in your best interest in meditation.

Jennifer: Wow. That is just so simple, yet so powerful. It feels like that’s a little mantra for life. Sarah: Well, they are. These are for meditation and for life. It’s not helpful to beat yourself up, try

too hard, quit, you know? These are not all helpful things. Jennifer: No, they are not. And this is what it’s like to have basically a self‐centered life. I like this that

meditation is the direct experience of your own soul. Sarah: Absolutely. Jennifer: And it’s so — to me it’s redefining what mediation is entirely, Sarah. Deepak Chopra and

Debbie Ford both gave wonderful testimonials to your book and your process and your work. And it’s so cool, because you’ve made it simple. You’ve made it something and what I’m really getting from this call and the energy that you’re presenting to us and the energy signature even that is here impacting all of us, is that this is the path to clearing. You know — and I do want to talk about, you kind of mentioned it very briefly, I want to talk a little bit about there’s stuff that shows up that’s indicating that it’s clearing when you’re in a meditation. And it’s not indicating that you’re doing it wrong. Things like tingling, or hot, or cold, or an emotion shows up.

Sarah: Right, and you know — oh, go ahead. Jennifer: No, please. Sarah: Well, I say everything that happens in meditation is moving out. A lot of people are in

meditation and the thought will come, “Is it right? Am I doing this right? Is it happening? Am I going to have that experience?” You know, those thoughts are even energy that’s moving out. I can explain it further, but we’d have to have another half of an hour. I can just assure you of this, just use this analogy. It’s like vacuuming your room. You vacuum your room. You don’t open the vacuum bag and say, “No where did that cat hair come from?” You simply just vacuum the room. Meditation is like vacuuming the room. You don’t have to explore and analyze what happened in meditation. You do it, and then you enjoy the clean carpet. You do meditation and you enjoy the fruits of it. The experiences you have in mediation don’t have as much value as the — let’s put it this way. The experiences that you are aware of in meditation don’t have as much value as how it shows up in your life, the benefits that show up in your life. So if you’re having a restless kind of boring meditation, or if you’re feeling like this isn’t working, or you’re crying, or you’re angry at your brother, you know, that’s still a good meditation.

So again, moving into the beginners mind, not judging good or bad. A good meditation is the

one that you do. That’s a good meditation.


Jennifer: That’s a really good meditation. And I love that notation that it’s really clearing up your life, so

it’s maybe not about the meditation itself, it’s about vacuuming and the result is a cleaner life. Sarah: Exactly. And it’s like brushing your teeth. You do it every day. You’re not looking for a

fabulous experience, you just do it, and you feel better afterwards. Jennifer: That’s great. Well, we talked a little bit about attention and about the attributes of the soul.

And one of the things that you and I talked about before the show is you have this new thought that attention is love.

Sarah: Attention is love. Attention is love, and the source of your attention is your own soul. That’s

the source of your attention. It’s the currency of your soul is attention. And the currency of your soul is love. So you give attention — think about it. Think about if you’re sick or if a friend is sick and you just go be with them. You’re giving them attention. What do your kids want? Attention. A crying child — attention. Your dogs, your kitty’s — attention. You know, people who aren’t feeling well or secure, they want attention.

So I’m not talking about, as I said earlier, the type of attention that’s like a stalker. We don’t

want stalker attention. I’m talking about that receptive, loving, attention that present moment awareness that each one of us has as a currency. And I like to say turn that same attention towards yourself first. You know, just in the subtlest ways. Just being with yourself. Like if you’re having an emotional challenge, Jennifer, just being with it. Giving yourself that loving attention that a good friend would give you. Giving yourself, if you have an injury in your body or a disease, loving that back into health, or even just loving it.

What do they say? The Bible says love all things, right? And I know this from having cancer

myself, and when I was practicing these visualizations it was years ago when it was really the rage to have army’s in your body fighting each other with the cancer cells. And that was not helpful for me to have a war going on in my body and visualizing that. So one day I had the ah‐hah moment to love my body; to love the cancer cells; to love myself back into wholeness and just watch the way that you talk to your body. You know, that’s my bad knee, or my back is always giving me trouble. What are we saying to ourselves and our body overhears everything? What are we saying to ourselves? Instead of wishing things were different, what about just loving the way things are in the moment and then wishing they were different. Just giving a little love to the moment, like your emotions. Giving a little attention to it. Letting it live its life, and then you can hope for it to be better. But we always are busy doing rather than being.

Jennifer: You have a quote, there’s a quote in your book that you say, “The mind finds what it is looking

for and little else.” Sarah: That’s right. Jennifer: So what is the mind looking for? What is the attention on? Sarah: Well, that you have to decide. That’s part of creating a really good focus for yourself.

Intention is important for your life. Every time you sit down to meditate, you’ve got an


intention. Every time you get on this call, anytime you listen to Healing With The Masters, you have — whether it’s expressed or unexpressed or even subconscious, there is an intention there.

So what is your intention? Let’s everybody take a moment here — who’s listening, and just

identify what it is your intention is. You can use one word or two words like healing, or self‐awareness, or pleasure. Whatever it may be, there’s no right or wrong answer. What is that intention for you? Do you want to do a little process now?

Jennifer: Yeah, let’s do it. Sarah: I want to make sure we have enough time. I think we do. Jennifer: Yeah, we do, because we started late, so we’re going to finish a little later. Sarah: Okay, that sounds great. So everybody I’d like for you, if you can, to sit up and to turn off any

other noise in your environment. I know it’s hard to turn off your kids, but turn off any television or any music for right now. And sit up in a comfortable position and then give yourself a moment and close your eyes.

[Pause] Sarah: With your eyes closed, you might begin to notice that you’re a little more aware of the sounds

in your environment, whether it’s my voice or the bell or the hum of the refrigerator, whatever it may be, just notice and receive it without judgment, without wishing it were different. Simply paying attention to the noises as they come and go in and out of silence.

And with your eyes closed you might also begin to notice that you’re a little more aware of

your body. I’d like to take a moment now and just have you get really comfortable as you’re sitting up. We’ll do a body scan. I’ll guide you through it from head to toe. I want you to use your attention remembering that your attention is love. And if you come across any areas of discomfort, disease, or any areas that you believe need healing, I want you to rest your attention there without trying to do, heal, change, or avoid it.

Let’s start with our scalp. Relaxing as you go. Relaxing your scalp and your forehead. Relaxing

your eyes, your face. Relaxing your mouth. You can tuck your chin in just a little bit allowing the back of your neck to lengthen slightly and dropping your shoulders down away from your ears and your arms hang comfortably. Relaxed, fingers relaxed.

Exploring your body. Exploring it and loving it with your attention. Paying attention to your

torso from the inside out. Relaxing your upper back, your chest, your mid‐back, your diaphragm, your low‐back, your hips. Relaxing your right leg from your hip to your toes. Relaxing your left leg from your hip to your toes. Letting your whole body be soft and open present in this moment.

Your body is always right here, right now. And when you connect with your body in that loving

non‐judgmental way, you bring your attention to this moment too. Now, bring your attention to your breath. Noticing that cool air on the inhale. Ideally, you’re breathing through your


nose. Warmer air on the exhale. Letting your breath be natural, but paying attention to it. And if you notice your attention drifting away, gently refocus sweetly right back to my voice, right back to the focus, just right now your breath. It doesn’t matter how many times you have to refocus. You’re training your awareness. You’re training your brain. Your breath might get faster or slower or deeper or shallower. Do not try to control it. Let it be as natural as it is. Noticing that gentle rise and fall of the chest. Imagining now your breath moving in and out from the heart center. Enlivening the wisdom of your heart. Enlivening the alchemy of your heart.

And with your attention here, on your in‐breath, I want you to breath in that intention,

whatever that intention is that you’re here right now listening to this call for. Whatever prompted you to be here, identify it and say that one word silently to yourself, thinking it on each inhale, whether it be peace, release, miracles, bliss. On each inhale silently breathing that into your heart center without attachment, simply with the information of the intention.

Anytime your attention drifts away, just gently come back. You can let that process go and

gently bring your attention back to the sensation of the breath as you breath in and out through your nose. This time allowing your awareness to rest as your breath rests between the inhale and the exhale and the exhale and the inhale. If the mind wanders just simply come back to the sensation of the breath, which is always right here, right now.

Each time you return your attention you’re training your attention. Be nice to yourself. Don’t

try too hard. There’s nothing you’re supposed to feel or do. Simply be present with your breath.

Now I’d like you to do one more practice. On each inhale I want you to start with, I am and

whatever that intention was, whatever that intention is, I am peace; I am happiness; I am relief; whatever that is for you, I want you to be it. I want you to be it. I am as you breath in. Feel how it’s true. Feel that you already are what you’re looking for. Own it even if it’s just for a moment. And as thoughts arise just come back to I am.

You can gently allow your attention to simply rest in the being of your own presence and the

stillness of your own soul. Keeping your eyes closed. Keeping your eyes closed simply enjoy your own experience. Notice how you’re feeling. Don’t open your eyes right away, because even if you felt like you didn’t go very deep, you probably did. If we measured it with an EEG machine and your blood pressure and your respiration rate, we’d find that you’re in a deep state of rest. Take your time. Do not rush into coming back into the waking state. When you are ready to open your eyes, do so first with a downward gaze. And when you ready to fully engage, open your eyes all of the way. Don’t make the mistake of going faster than you want to go ever.

This was a taste of meditation in which we had you focus on your body awareness; had you

focus on your breath; had you focus on your heart breath; had you pay attention to your intention; had you claim that you already are that. Now, this practice in the real world can go as long as 45 minutes to one hour, but you can do it as quickly as we did. And I think that was about 10 minutes.

Jennifer: Yeah. Oh, that was incredible.


Sarah: It was credible. You did it. Jennifer: It was credible. I am in a whole new space, wow, Sarah. Listen, I have been guided on many,

many meditations and that was something different and special. And I know it’s because of your vast experience and your just incredible open heart and intention. And I’m also going to call it an energy signature, because I know there’s something there that allowed us to go so deep so quickly so easily. And I know there’s people out there — we’re going to hear comments on the Facebook comments on the site. And I’d love to hear your experience, because I wasn’t able to gather a lot from the webcast tonight because it wasn’t working. But to hear how you have been — how you experienced something so deep so quick.

And I can feel, like I was saying at the beginning of the show when I was introducing Sarah, this

is — these are the tools that will allow you to move into your heart, that will allow you to clear those traumas that Drunvalo was talking about. To release the judgments that Rikka was talking about that allows you to move into that I am space that Wayne was talking about.

This is a beautiful synchronistic moment of someone really showing you how. This is how. Sarah: Uh‐huh, and you know, even just to bring in Eckhart Tolle talks about the pain body, and

honestly I didn’t really fully actualize what he was talking about until I realized it was exactly what I’m talking about with that stress layer. When we have these sort of undigested experiences and emotions that we carry around with us, because we’re not present for them or we resist them. They get triggered so easily. And this is — meditation is the deepest way to let a little air out of the balloon to clear away the past trauma and it’s so gentle. I mean, I didn’t have the easiest life, and I did not have to relive it in order to clear it. And that’s what I love about meditation. It’s so sweet.

Jennifer: Right. It’s just —I love the analogy of the vacuum. It just clears it up. Sarah: You don’t have to search through it. Jennifer: So I want to share a little bit about your special offer, and then I’m going to ask you a final question

before the show ends and share the phrase that pays. So we have a really powerful special offer here tonight. And I’m really excited about it. Sarah has put together the most beautiful set of programs that will allow you to truly go into the depths of her teachings and take that 10 and 20 year process out of the — completely out. Throw it out and move into meditation in a way that is so simple and easy. And like I said, I’m not a meditator, and I’m meditating now. And it was simple, easy, and it’s short. It’s not like you have to meditate for 17 days and go into cones of silence. This is like 15‐minute practice twice a day. And if you don’t have a practice now, now is the time to start. This is beautiful, clear, wonderful important exercise.

And she takes your naturally through a process with item one, which is Your Soul Centered Life, 8

Qualities to Transform Your Life. It’s based on the eight characteristics of meditation that she covers in her eight‐week program in the book. And this will allow you to engage in the moment to be spontaneous and open to possibilities, to be aware of your emotional responses, to be sensitive to your body signals, to be kind to yourself, and discover who you are, what you want, what you really want, and to say what you mean; to be more intuitive to understand what your intuition is, to listen to your own wisdom and make more nourishing choices. Because when you’re in that place of clarity, when the vacuum cleaner has cleaned this all out through the process that Sarah will be guiding you through, it’s


easy to make a choice. It’s just right in front of you. And then it allows you to be soul centered as you shift your center point from the external of your being to the internal. And all of these are aware through these eight incredible tracks including: awareness, peace, which is stress less, beginners mind, which we talked a little bit about tonight, loving yourself, intimacy. She talks about intimacy — authenticity, receptivity, and nourishment. Not just nourishment in terms of the great peaches she talked about, but nourishment of the soul. And for every single one of these there’s a meditation, there’s an exercise that allows you to really palpably kinesthetically feel it in your being. You can add it to your practice of meditation and grow it to something that really nurtures your being and nurtures your soul and allows you to become soul centered.

Do you have anything to add about that particular course? Sarah: Oh, sorry. When I was just remembering recording it, it was so delicious for me, because I had just

written this book. This knowledge for me has been 20 something years of gathering this knowledge, and to be able to share it as a complete work, I haven’t done that before. At least I haven’t spoken it before. I’ve written it. So for me this was the first time I was able to really articulate and share it, and I did keep the listeners in mind. Someone said to me, “How can you speak for that long?” I said, “Because I had an audience there. I had an energetic audience.” I really did. It was a beautiful experience to do that and I know that everybody would love this. I love it. I want to listen to it.

Jennifer: I know. I do too. What’s really cool — thank you for mentioning that. I remember I was in the studio

with you when you recorded this, at least part of it, and I remember thinking you have the audience in mind. So if you’re resonating with this in any way, shape or form, you were there with Sarah when she recorded it. There’s no question of it. This was made for you, because she has a very strong intention. She vacuums herself every day or her being every day for 20 years, so she’s really clear. And so that energy signature was there and present for you. So if you’re being called at all towards this material, this is here for you.

And then there is beautiful — What is Soul‐Centeredness. It gives you kind of the template for what it is

to be a soul‐centered being. To live a life of grace and ease and love and joy and passion and create magnificently with ease and effortlessness, bringing the things forward into your life. Discovering the in‐depth power that is you and getting to a place of knowing that I’m okay no matter what. I’m sorry. Go ahead Sarah.

Sarah: It’s like no apologies for being who you are. It’s okay to want what you want. It’s okay to be who you

are regardless of the measures of the external world; it’s a term I’ve coined that is just necessary for this time. We all need to step into our own integrity and our own authenticity and our own power. Each one of us has to do it.

Jennifer: Beautiful. That’s just item two. And item three, we’ve got Meditations with Sarah McLean. So what

you experienced is just a simple taste of what you’ll experience in this meditation CD where she’s going to guide you through a simple mantra meditation, a meditation for healing, and a meditation on gratitude. And what’s really cool is as you go through the program, now you have a longer version of a meditation that you can now use as a practice and as an example. She will guide you magnificently as she did with us today into that powerful place of clearing and presence and stillness and allowing and space. Those are the words that come up when I’m doing my meditations now through your great work.

And then finally is the Sedona Sessions. This is a really cool aspect that Sarah put together for us. This is

— she went in and she found kind of some experts, but these are like people who are really living soul‐centered lives. She chose them specifically because they are. So you know have wonderful examples from these powerful insights of a lifetime of being soul‐centered — what it’ like. For some of you I hear, “There’s no template. I don’t know how. I’ve never done it.” Sarah is showing you how through these


individuals, and she’s asking them questions about what it’s like to be soul‐centered. Do you have anything to add about that, Sarah?

Sarah: Well, you know Sedona is the place where people do gravitate to either lead a retreat, take a retreat,

find themselves, go on a personal retreat, and these people are — there’s a mixture of people that are here whether they’ve come here because they’re called to live a life that’s spiritually based, they put their spiritual practice first, or they’re people who are here on retreat bringing groups in. So I could — I could have gone on for months with this particular project, because there were so many different — it’s like we all have a different perspective on how do we deal with stress. How do we deal with life when our clock has been cleaned? How do we deal with it when we’re rocked off our center? So they all are so deeply wise and committed to their practices and, you know, they’re not woo‐woo. They’re living everyday lives, but they are also in alignment with their own deepest desires. It’s a beautiful experience.

Jennifer: It’s a beautiful experience. So all of these products are yours here for the first time ever. These have

never been available anywhere else. We’re launching them here for the very first time. Sarah’s book launched today is it? That was yesterday?

Sarah: Two days ago. Jennifer: Two days ago. It launched this week. So all of this stuff is brand spanking new and incredibly powerful.

A lot of thought and intention went into these. So: specials.healingwiththemasters.com/sarah specials.healingwiththemasters.com/sarah And that’s S‐a‐r‐a‐h. S‐a‐r‐a‐h. specials.healingwiththemasters.com/sarah So I do have the phrase that pays. Sarah has generously allowed us to have a one‐on‐one session with

Sarah for half of one hour, a 30 minute session, one‐on‐one is for the phrase that pays. And the phrase that pays tonight is: The currency of your soul is love. The phrase that pays for tonight is: The currency of your soul is love. And that will get you a half‐hour session with Sarah. So go to the contest page:

healingwiththemasters.com/contest To post that phrase that pays. Sarah, in your book toward the end there’s this beautiful Navajo hozho. And I know that it came out of

this kind of attention to changing the moment and changing your attention. So I was wondering if you could share a little bit about where this came from, how it’s impacted you, and maybe read it to us.

Sarah: Would you like me to tell a quick story about it? Jennifer: Yes, please. Sarah: So I have this — we all have our compulsions and mine is I like to save animals from suffering. That’s

what I do. I mean, I will go out of my way to look for them, to try and help them, to prevent it. It’s just really what I do, and here in Phoenix in the summer it’s pretty hot. It gets to be about 115 and sometimes 120. And I was driving along one day with my husband in my air‐conditioned car, but I was keeping my eyes out. Who’s hungry? Who doesn’t have shade? I have the speed dial of the state vet


on my cell phone, that’s just how I am, you know. And it’s not a fun way to be. It’s not a fun way to be, I can tell you right now. It sounds really humanitarian and really compassionate, but inside my body it is not fun. And I’m driving along and there are two ways to drive along. There’s one way to just enjoy yourself, and there’s the other way with this constant feeling that there’s something suffering out there. And it was so painful to me. My throat was tightening up. My stomach was hurting. I didn’t see anything suffering. I was already suffering myself. I was the animal suffering. So what ended up happening was I said, “I’ve got to change this. I’ve got to look for something else.” Remember I talked about that in the beginning. You get to choose what you’re looking for, because you will find it. So I started looking for beauty, and I felt what is the opposite of suffering. And for me it’s just beauty. Beauty in people’s expression, beauty in the world, beauty in nature. And so as I said that, and I made up my mind to look for that, I looked and immediately I saw this sign that said “beauty”. And it was huge. And I started laughing because it was a sign for a beauty supply store, but then I started seeing beauty everywhere. You know, I saw it everywhere I looked. Whether it was a tree, or the way the light was shining, or flashing off of somebody’s hair. It was just everywhere. And it was such a sweet shift and my body totally responded. Then I found, oh, I have to find it again. Then I found this thing, it’s called hozho, and it’s a Navajo saying. And I’m trying to look for it. Here we are.

Jennifer: 106 — 166. Sarah: I’ve got it. It’s a Native American chant, and they use it in ceremonies to encourage the return to our

state of balance with creation itself, with our own soul, which is creative, and with our entire universe. And hozho means balance. And it goes like this:

In beauty I walk. With beauty before me, I walk. With beauty behind me, I walk. With beauty below me, I walk. With beauty above me, I walk. With beauty all around me, I walk. It is finished in beauty. So I say pay attention to what you’re looking for. Pay attention to what you’re putting your attention

on, and you will find it. Jennifer: Beautiful. Oh, Sarah, thank you for just a beautiful delightful show and for moving us through your

fantastic technique and process as well as through your open heart to a whole new level. I can feel that all of us have shifted to a new place despite our technical difficulties.

Sarah: Jennifer, you are so impeccable. I know you did everything you could to create the perfect show, and

this is what the perfect show is like. So you’ve got to be okay. Just as my friend Byron Katie says, “You’ve got to love what is.”

Jennifer: Love what is, yeah, and we’re going to use it to put in new protocols, so we’re all good. Sarah: I’m glad I could help you evolve, and thank you so much for having me on the show. And to your

listeners, I really appreciate your attention, your energy of love. Jennifer: Thank you, and thanks everyone for joining us on Healing With The Masters. Again, the phrase that

pays for tonight is: Currency of the soul is love. Go to the contest page and if you’re interested in Sarah’s wonderful offer:

specials.healingwiththemasters.com/sarah


With an “h”. S‐a‐r‐a‐h. Thank you, Sarah, and thank everyone so much for being part of today’s show. It seems we always

come to these calls as individuals, but in the end we end up as a united community. And we are united in our intention. We are on the same vibrational frequency all together here. And that makes a powerful opportunity for change and shift. We know we make the difference. We matter. You matter. I love you all so very much. Until next time, good night everyone. Good night, Sarah.

Sarah: Good night sweet soul sister. Jennifer: Bye‐bye. Sarah: Bye. [End of Discussion]


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Sarah McLean | Featured Guest | May 3, 2012

Hay House Author, Teacher, and The New Face of Mainstream Meditation SedonaMeditation.com

Sarah McLean, author of Soul‐Centered: Transform Your Life in 8 Weeks with Meditation (Hay House, May 2012) is an inspiring, contemporary meditation teacher. Best‐selling author Debbie Ford calls her “the new face of mainstream meditation,” and the media says she’s “an inspirational and dynamic teacher.” As the founding director of the Sedona Meditation Training Company, Sarah makes meditation accessible with meditation classes, self‐discovery retreats, and training health professionals and individuals to teach others to meditate. She is dedicated to supporting and educating those seeking fulfilling lives, better health, inner peace, and self‐awareness through meditation. Her background in meditation and spiritual study includes a 20+ year meditation practice, years as a resident at a Zen Buddhist monastery and at an ashram in India. Other life expanding adventures include bicycling along the silk route through Pakistan, meditating in temples in Thailand and Japan, trekking the Golden Triangle in Asia, and teaching English to Tibetan Buddhist nuns in exile in India. Sarah was a founding director of Deepak Chopra’s mind‐body health center, and worked with Gary Zukav, author of Seat of the Soul, and Byron Katie, founder of The Work. Sarah has served as a stress‐reduction expert to Proctor & Gamble, The Young Presidents’ Organizations, and the Thunderbird School of Global Management, along with other prominent organizations. She’s been featured in The New York Times, Phoenix Woman, ABC, AOL, Spa Magazine, and Organic Spa Magazine. Her meditation CD has gotten rave reviews on Amazon.com, and she was recently featured in two films, Tapping the Source, and Sacred Journey of the Heart. When she’s not writing, teaching or meditating, Sarah loves to hike the hills of Sedona with her husband and two rescued pups, Rudy and Gigi. Find out more about her work at www.SedonaMeditation.com


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www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/donna-eden/


Healing With the Masters: Volume 9 | Guest Speakers | Further Information (cont’d)

March 22, 2012

Jo Dunning

"The Miracle Worker" World Renowned Spiritual Teacher Author and Master of Energy JoDunning.com

March 27, 2012

Sonia Choquette

International Bestselling Hay House Author Spiritual Teacher Distinguished Intuitive Advisor SoniaChoquette.com

March 29, 2012

Noah St. John

“The Accelerated Results Guy” Bestselling Author Inventor of Afformations® NoahStJohn.com

April 3, 2012

Susann Taylor Shier

Dynamic and Gifted Author Teacher Intuitive Counselor SoulMastery.net

April 4, 2012

Jon Griffin

Awakening the soul through music. How has sound transformed you? JonGriffin.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/sonia-choquette/

www.noahstjohn.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/noah-st-john/

www.soulmastery.net

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/susann-taylor-shier/

www.jon-griffin.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/jon-griffin/

www.jodunning.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/jo-dunning/

www.soniachoquette.com



April 5, 2012

Gregg Braden

New York Times Bestselling Author Scientific‐Spiritualty Pioneer GreggBraden.com

April 10, 2012

Wayne Dyer

Internationally Renowned Self‐Development Author and Speaker DrWayneDyer.com

April 12, 2012

Mark Romero

Artist Sound Vibration Healer Personal‐Development Coach MarkRomeroMusic.com

April 17, 2012

David Neagle

World‐Class Speaker Leading Authority on Personal Mastery DavidNeagle.com

April 19, 2012

Wayne Dyer

Internationally Renowned Self‐Development Author and Speaker DrWayneDyer.com

Live Q&A

www.greggbraden.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/gregg-braden/

www.drwaynedyer.com

www.drwaynedyer.com

www.markromeromusic.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/mark-romero/

www.davidneagle.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/david-neagle/

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/wayne-dyer/

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/wayne-dyer/



April 24, 2012

Drunvalo Melchizedek

World Renowned Author and Speaker Drunvalo.net

April 25, 2012

Mary Allen

Healing Coach For People From All Backgrounds LifeCoachMary.com

April 26, 2012

Isha Judd

International Speaker Ambassador for Peace IshaJudd.com

May 1, 2012

Rikka Zimmerman

Spreading the seeds of Consciousness around the world. “Life comes to me with ease, joy and glory!” RikkaZimmerman.com

May 3, 2012

Sarah McLean

Hay House Author, Teacher, and The New Face of Mainstream Meditation SedonaMeditation.com

www.drunvalo.net

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/drunvalo-melchizedek/

www.lifecoachmary.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/mary-allen/

www.ishajudd.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/isha-judd/

www.rikkazimmerman.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/rikka-zimmerman/

www.sedonameditation.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/sarah-mclean/



May 8, 2012

Denise Linn

Internationally Respected Healer, Writer and Teacher DeniseLinn.com

May 9, 2012

Elizabeth Jones

Astrologer Extraordinaire Gifted Intuitive ‐ Revealing the Nature of Powerful 2012 Transitions AstrologyofLight.com

May 10, 2012

Panache Desai

Inspirational Visionary Contemporary Spiritual Master PanacheDesai.com

May 15, 2012

Carol Look

Internationally Known Author Energy Practitioner Success and Abundance Coach AttractingAbundance.com

May 17, 2012

Jim Kwik

Expert on speed‐reading, memory improvement, and accelerated learning for over 18 years. JimKwik.com

www.deniselinn.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/denise-lnn/

www.astrologyoflight.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/elizabeth-jones/

www.panachedesai.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/panache-desai/

www.attractingabundance.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/carol-look/

www.jimkwik.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/jimkwik/



May 22, 2012

Neale Donald Walsch

Internationally Recognized Spiritual Messenger Best Selling Author of the Conversations With God book series NealeDonaldWalsch.com

May 23, 2012

Emmanuel Dagher

Human Transformation Specialist Holistic Health Practitioner and Teacher MagnifiedManifesting.com

May 24, 2012

Laurie Reyon

Internationally Known Interspecies Communicator and Soul Healer LaurieReyon.com

May 29, 2012

Mary A. Hall

Recognized & Profound Healer Popular Abundance Coach Author and Speaker MaryAHall.com

May 31, 2012

William Linville

Instrument of the Universal and Creator Consciousness – Here to Assist You WilliamLinville.com

www.nealedonaldwalsch.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/neale-donald-walsch/

www.magnifiedmanisfesting.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/emmanuel-dagher/

www.lauriereyon.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/laurie-reyon/

www.maryahall.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/mary-hall/

www.williamlinville.com

www.healingwiththemasters.com/v9/william-linville/



June 5, 2012

Christie Marie Sheldon

Author Intuitive Life Coach Transformation Expert LoveorAbove.com

June 7, 2012

Dr. Joe Dispenza

Author of Evolve Your Brain Featured International Speaker Scientist DrJoeDispenza.com

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www.loveorabove.com

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