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The Bliss Mistress Guide to Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

Balboa Press

Contents

Introduction The Birth of a Bliss Mistress..........................................1Chapter 1. Let's Start at the Very Beginning........................................7Chapter 2. Endless Loop Tape........................................................10Chapter 3. As My Own Woman..........................................................13Chapter 4. Pissing on the Fire......................................................15Chapter 5. Fifth Chakra Folly.......................................................20Chapter 6. A Love Letter to Yourself................................................25Chapter 7. The Servant of the Creation..............................................27Chapter 8. Everything I Need To Know, I Learned at Cuddle Party.....................29Chapter 9. And the Year Has Just Begun..............................................34Chapter 10. Lila....................................................................37Chapter 11. Once Wild...............................................................40Chapter 12. Plugged into Our Source.................................................44Chapter 13. A Relationship with Chocolate...........................................47Chapter 14. Thoughts That Do No Violence to My Soul.................................50Chapter 15. Standing at the Crossroads..............................................53Chapter 16. Tattooed Angel..........................................................55Chapter 17. The Cosmic Yes!.........................................................58Chapter 18. Beloved Bozos...........................................................61Chapter 19. Validation..............................................................66Chapter 20. Living Orgasmically.....................................................68Chapter 21. Poetic License..........................................................72Chapter 22. Dance Like Everyone Is Watching.........................................75Chapter 23. Mammogram Mambo.........................................................78Chapter 24. Mala....................................................................81Chapter 25. Godwinks................................................................85Chapter 26. Zen Starbucks...........................................................88Chapter 27. Fantabulous 50!.........................................................91Chapter 28. Blowing Bubbles with Mom................................................96Chapter 29. S'Mores in Heaven.......................................................100Chapter 30. Bliss Bites.............................................................105AdoRe-sources.......................................................................108Chapter 31 An Interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama............................124Afterword...........................................................................130Bliss Mistress Groups...............................................................131Transform the Ordinary Into the Extraordinary.......................................132Bliss Bravos........................................................................134

Chapter One

To get to your destination, you first need to be aware of exactly where your feet are planted. Are they in lush green grass that tickles your toes? Hot, sticky tar? Suck-you-down-into-the-muck quicksand?

In order to make sure we are all on the same page (and as you are reading this, apparently we are), let's define a few key words:

BLISS: Walking on clouds, floating on air, all without benefit of invisible fishing wire or tightrope; a goosebumps experience that has you giggling with delight; a sense of ahhh and awe simultaneously

TRANSFORMING: Abracadabra; presto-change-o; alchemical process that turns lead into gold

ORDINARY: Black and white and shades of gray; customary; day-to-day

EXTRAORDINARY: Ta-da!; Highly exceptional and remarkable; amazing, fantastic, astonishing, marvelous, exceptional; technicolor dream come true

When the character of Maria in The Sound of Music was teaching the Von Trapp children to sing, her lovely voice wafted over the Alps, "Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you read, you begin with A-B-C, when you sing, you begin with Do-ReMi." The same is true in the exploration of bliss. When you answer this invitation though, you begin with 'feel, hear, see' (not to exclude taste and touch, since they are important bliss enhancing senses ... they just don't fit the rhyme scheme).

Can you go into the experience of opening to bliss, senses fully ablaze? Let's take an inventory with our first Bliss Kisses:

On a scale of 1-10, how fulfilling is your life?

When you awaken every morning, what is your first thought?

Do you wake up smiling or grumbling?

Would you categorize your life as mundane or magical?

Sixties songbird Peggy Lee voiced the musical question, "Is that all there is?" Is that your theme song?

If a movie were made of your life, would it be a comedy, drama, action/ adventure flick, horror film, or romance?

Do you live with caution or courage?

When was the last time you took my version of the 'Nestea® Plunge', falling backward into the loving arms of the Universe, trusting that you will be safely held?

If never or not recently, are you willing to do so?

When?

If you knew that in a year from now your life could do a 180 degree turnaround and you would be living your passion, how would you feel in this moment?

Did your answer surprise you?

When facing life change, I envision the trapeze artist performing all kinds of tricks and flights of fancy. Then the next trapeze comes swinging toward her. In that moment, she has a choice: she can remain clinging to the trapeze already in her hands, OR she can stretch her body out, take flight, and grab hold of the one headed her way. That moment in free-fall or free-flight can be terrifying or exhilarating. She knows that the act consists of moving from one trapeze to the next. It wouldn't make for an exciting show if she kept swinging back and forth on the same apparatus.

I know too that I can watch amazed as this highly trained person engages in her art and think, "I could never do that." Frankly, I wouldn't want to. My leaps of faith and yours may look a little different from hers, but they take courage nonetheless. The origin of the word is from French 'coeur' which translates to 'from the heart'. I like the idea that we are heart warriors, taking a stand for the kind of lives we deserve and desire; that's a crusade I can get behind.

Chapter Two

"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way." —Florence Scovel Shinn

One clear intuitive experience arrived in an infinitely life changing form. In early 1986, I was invited to go to what was then the Soviet Union with a group of other teachers, writers, and healers on a citizens' diplomacy mission. My friend Alan Cohen was one of the leaders. The purpose of the trip was to join the hearts of Americans and Russians to melt the...