Unlimiting my life : 7 days to a more generous, creative and sensual life

Hélène Nicole

Description

Unlimiting my personal life, a tale of freedom come is a fisrthand account of the author's journey towards shelf-realization and embracing our endless potentieal both as individuals ans as members of society. It explores the art of pushing our limits and finding true freedom.

Sujets

• Biography
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Distribulivre
• Date de parution: 24 juillet 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9782897758066
• Langue: Français

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UNLIMITING MY LIFE SERIES
 
 
 
 
 
7 Days to a More Generous, Creative and Sensual Life An essay on the 5 Senses, Intuition, and Silence
 


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Hélène Nicole Richard, and Daphné Hunt
 
 
 
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ISBN : 978-2-89775-806-6
 
 
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UNLIMITING MY LIFE SERIES
 
 
 
 
 
7 Days to a More Generous, Creative and Sensual Life An essay on the 5 Senses, Intuition, and Silence
 
I wish to thank…
My parents, France, my brother, my grandmothers and my godmother, my uncle André and the friends that left this year, wherever you are, thank you. I feel your presence around me, always.
My readers, what an honor having you read my books. You give me relevance.
My publishers, Sylvain and Vanessa Vallières at Editions de l'Apothéose, a third book! Thank you for your confidence once again and for publishing me in both official languages.
My editing champions, Christiane Lamarche, Daphne L. Hunt and Paul McAneney, thank you so much for all your hard work and guidance.
My children Tommy, Mira who speak to me every day without fail, I love you so much.
Michèle my big sister, you continue to be an example of perseverance and acceptance for me.
My nephews and nieces, I hope to inspire you to continue to shine your brightest light on the world.
My special cousins Carole, Sylvain, Andrée, your help is appreciated.
François and Jacques, my dad’s best friends, who never missed a beat to be there for him when I couldn’t. The time to write this book is a blessing thanks to you.
André Roy, my songwriter ally, you have transformed my artistic life. As you said it so aptly, I love you more that if I loved you. Writing this book while creating an album with you totally inspired me.
Paul, Sylvie, Sylvain, Bertrand, Marcel, Yvan & Sylvie you are such a big help with my tour bus, and all of you who join me in my life quests, those amazing mobile mechanics who repair my tour bus in record times, those who train me, take care of me physically, emotionally, morally, mentally and in every other way I need support, thank you.
All my faithful close friends, you know who you are. I love you so much. Without you I would not be All there.
 
 
Table des matières 7 days to a more generous, creative and sensual life
 

Author’s note
Introduction
Unlimiting the gift that I am
Day one
THE SENSE OF SIGHT
Day two
THE SENSE OF SMELL
Day three
THE SENSE OF HEARING
Day four
THE SENSE OF TASTE
Day five
THE SENSE OF TOUCH
Day six
THE SIXTH SENSE: INTUITION
Day seven
SILENCE
BIBLIOGRAPHY

 
Author’s note
 
Who am I?
I didn’t know, until I gave of myself. I learned that I am a gifted human being, and so are you. I needed to give to realize how gifted I really am, and to receive to realize how you too are so gifted.
We all have a unique way of expressing our gifts. Mine has to do with being a transformation partner, thus, helping others unwrap the gift that they are. It’s my calling. We all have a calling that is personal to us. If our senses are not tuned in with our heart, we won’t recognize our calling. When my heart told me to give, I found my gifts.
This book will be my fifth published work. It comes from an essay I wrote about 24 years ago. At that time, not yet sober, I felt stuck within my own inner jail.. I was inspired by Julia Cameron’s suggestions in her book The Artist’s Way, to write 3 pages each morning to unclutter my thoughts. I started writing to free myself
After the publishing of my last books, Unlimiting my personal life and Unlimiting my professional life , I wondered what to write about next. I consulted my good friend and strategy coach Linda Lord. She suggested I write booklets. My inner voice directed me to pick up this essay and turn it into a booklet. It ha d helped me so much in removing the blocks that I used to put, and still put at times, in my own way. Revisiting this essay, I realized its power.
Following the method of this book, each vision I had imagined all those years ago came true for me. I am shocked.
We each have a very unique way of giving, creating, and of sensing what is to come out of us, being all blessed with these gifts of generosity, creativity and sensuality. Lately, in the need of deepening my identity, I found that whatever I created in the past, whether it was trends, tools, businesses, books, seminars or stage performances, followed a pattern.
I take ‘what is’ and transform it for ‘what is best’ at the moment. I take what is not wanted and transform it. I take problematic situations, ideas and thoughts to new lights and perspectives, making it very hard to remain stuck in what did not work.
I get hired to transform problems into opportunities. I add options to the table.
I create and wrap gifts, metaphorically. This is what I do best in this life.
What is so special about this? What’s so special about a wrapped-up gift?
We want to open it. It triggers action.
In this booklet, I hope to open your eyes to the beautiful gift that you are. I hope to teach you to observe your patterns of creativity, or of non-creativity by using your senses to justify the blocks that you create to not create. I want to lead you to find your patterns, may they seem good or bad. We will need them both.
After I identified a pattern, I looked at what I had created. My first business experience was to participate in the opening of a high school cooperative. It was my first experience of lifestyle entrepreneurship. Before that, I had distributed newspapers, sold products door to door, starting my business career by picking up empty bottles at events and reselling them. Taking the bad to make it good. I picked berries in the summer. I did all this to finance my adventures, a moped, gas, etc. I never worked to work; I worked to gain the freedom to live my life the way I wanted to.
A lifestyle enterprise differentiates itself from others by the fact that they serve the entrepreneur, giving them the means to live the lifestyle she or he desires.
My first real business experience was opening a daycare center with my mother, with the aim of instilling loving values in children. But more importantly, I had just become a single mother at the age of 18. This business allowed my mother and me to earn a living while enjoying my son full-time! I began assisting my mother as a handywoman. We literally created this daycare center from scratch, installing sinks, toilets, after building the walls. We even made the furniture! Then, when it opened, I was promoted to cleaning lady. I worked my way up to managing the establishment in just a few years. My mother set me up for success. I started by being coached and mentored by my parents as I forgot to mention I had been my dad’s assistant for a while in his handyman business.
My second enterprise was a retail store. Let me share the secret reason I opened it. I wanted to wrap gifts. Christmas had just come and gone and I had felt great joy in wrapping gifts for my friends and family. I wrapped each imagining their delight in seeing how beautifully wrapped they were, imagining a delightful gift inside. What a beautiful lifestyle it is to wrap gifts; I offered myself this gift and doing so, I discovered so many more gifts.
My first idea was to open a boutique where I could wrap gifts. In my boutique I had a stock of nice papers, ribbons, and accessories to wrap everything in such a way that, sometimes, people came to me with things they had bought somewhere else for me to wrap. I had found another gift within myself: I could create anticipation of good to come, I could make people hopeful and willing to unwrap something new, to step into the unknown with delight. My store was franchised and was a great success, some stores are still in operation 30 years later. I've also learned a valuable skill: giving people what they want, not what I think they want, or what I'd like to give. I've learned to create to order. I developed my intuition, guided by my senses.
Then, I followed my heart at 35, wanting to reinvent myself as a singer. Everyone said: ‘you’re too old’. But I didn’t listen and tried anyway, following a strong gut feeling. I discovered a niche market offering multimedia bilingual shows to francophones and anglophones outside Quebec. I toured the country and opened kid’s minds to the idea of speaking two languages. Then I took to writing and teaching grownups.
By giving in a new way, I discovered more gifts within me.
I had no idea I had a motivational speaker and a pedagogue in me, that I could change lives for the better. I remember a teacher I met in a school hallway; she stopped to talk to me and said, 'You changed my life as a teacher. You taught me that all children are creative.
After my books on Unlimiting lives were accepted by a publisher, I began to think about how to sell them. I researched what books had sold the most and on top of the list was the bible. So I researched Jesus’ marketing plan. It was pretty simple: Jesus told stories, attracted disciples and each story put people in front of a choice; you continue with your misery or you follow my teachings. Jesus’ plan put people at a crossroad; they could never be the same. Even if they did not follow him, some even persecuted him acc