Kate Loving Shenk

We asked Chef Keem: How did you land on Squidoo and when?

He said the date was 1/29/2008. He was browsing the internet, looking for a site
that would allow him to make free web pages and also a place where he could freely
express himself. He found the perfect place in Squidoo and has been there ever since, with
short sleep breaks in between!

He said he’s never looked back! He said he was looking for this opportunity all of his adult
life or at least since the day he got sober! His whole experience on Squidoo has been one
of giving and receiving. He said he felt this was miraculous!

The Squidoo community is the foundation of the whole Squidoo experience, by design.

Chef Keem said if you provide unique, useful and updated content you will find your audience,
you will make sales and google will find you.

It’s all based on your contribution with integrity.

The biggest piece of useful advice you can give on Squidoo or any online business endeavor
is to be authentic, to be yourself.

Chef Keem discussed going into a store with the intention of buying a product. The person
waiting on you may not be very communicative, may lack enthusiasm, or may refuse to give you
their name.

You will not feel like buying anything, and you will flee.

Online business gives you the opportunity to give of yourself, to exchange valuable products that
solve a problem.

We asked Chef Keem what his most important life lesson has been thus far? He said, put yourself
in someone else’s shoes. Be compassionate. Be helpful. We are all interconnected and everything
we do has a ripple effect.

The more we care about other people, the more we receive for ourselves. This is Universal Law,
based on Scientific Principles.

We discussed the Secret Dollar Man, Todd Silva, about giving away a dollar a day and making sure
that no one sees you do it. You put it out there and release it. You give without expectation
yet you know you will receive, because it is the Law.

We asked Chef Keem if he had a Spiritual Awakening that led him to seek recovery from
alcoholism?

He said a friend dropped off a book at probably the lowest point of his life. He did not care if he
lived or if he died.

The book was entitled: “Quiet Mind,” by Grace Cook who channelled a being called White Eagle.
The book said we are here to learn certain lessons and come back many times to learn more.
The book gave him the will to live and gave him the will to enter treatment.

This one book changed his life.

We discussed the Big Book of AA written by Bill Wilson, AA founder and dubbed the “Greatest Social
Architect of the Twentieth Century,” by Aldous Huxley.

If AA works for Alcoholism, it can work for everything. You heal your life through the twelve steps,
through meditation, through contemplation of the Higher Power. We can heal everything that ails
us through emotional, spiritual and psychic tools and allow the teachings to do the miraculous work
of healing.

Whenever we are doing something because we are inspired and led to do it, we will never know who will be touched somehow by what we say or by what we have created. We discussed that Bill W. was a spiritual giant who did not know this about himself. Many of the great teachers did not know exactly how far reaching their message extended, sometimes far into the future.

We discussed that the changing paradigms in our society seem to be happening first on the internet with online communities such as Twitter, Squidoo and Face Book. Yet even on line, there is an element of anonymity. More and more people on Squidoo are opening up and telling the truth about their lives which gives others permission to do the same.

The most important thing to remember is that whatever we are doing, whether online or off,
we can add to people’s healing.

But we may never know exactly how this is happening.

And not knowing is the spiritual mystery. We act upon our desire to create and to contribute, and all else
will enfold exactly as it is meant to.

We just step out of the way and let it take on a life of its own.

She calls it “Pray Rain Journaling.”

This concept of Pray Rain Journaling was given to Jeannette By Gregg Braden, author
of “Divine Matrix” among many other books.

Gregg was in New Mexico during a period of a five year drought. A friend invited him to
a ritual to “Pray Rain.” The friend purposely did not say “Pray For Rain.”

The two went deeply into the woods, and came to a circle of sacred stones.
The friend stepped mindfully into the circle and proceeded to say a few words to the
Ancestral Friends and became still.

Gregg imagined his friend would be doing a Prayer Dance with costumes and ceremony, but
this was not the case at all.

Later the friend explained what he did. He simply imagined the rain falling on his
skin, tasting the rain, and the corn waving in the wind after much rain to make it grow.

That night there was a flood!!

By asking for something, we are acknowledging that we don’t have it!! We discussed the concept
of Pray Peace, and I was inspired to create a lens on this. After all of these many years of Humans
interacting with one another, peace has not been realized.

Could it be we’ve been going about it in entirely the wrong way?

When Jeannette began playing with her Pray Rain Journal to change some things
about her life, she didn’t see the connection between this journaling technique and Law Of Attraction.
But Abraham, channelled through Esther Hicks, said if you write as if you have something,
by the end of the book, you will have it.

Or this or something better.

The first time Jeannette practiced with her PRJ, hours later she got exactly what she wanted.

She must have really been ready!!

Soon, Jeannette will have “Pray Rain Blog dot com” up and ready for everyone who
wants to work with this in an online community setting!! We are excited about this!!

Many times when a person begins the process of Pray Rain Journaling, they don’t know “how”
to begin. This will be where the community will help get the juices flowing for everyone
involved.

We discussed the beauty of online communities, like Twitter, Squidoo and Face Book.

And writing out your wishes may not be your thing. You might want to create scrap books,
vision boards, songs–and sing your way to your dream!!

But Pray Rain Journaling is simply telling your story the way you want it to be. As you
write or paint or sing your story, you are spared of looking crazy to your family and friends.

We discussed the “I am” statement. This was a powerful discussion and process, I think. Jesus
said, “I am That I Am.”

This is a powerful use of “I Am.” Then we discussed the “I am tired, I am sick, I am overwhelmed, I am
angry, I am depressed, I am an alcoholic, I am sorry.”

A pretty cool discussion. Listen to the program to hear it.

And finally we discussed Jeannette’s adventures with animal rescue.

Animal lovers are a special breed of human. They are a little different than those who cannot
relate to animals. I bet Jeannette has the Saint Francis effect.

I bet the Bull Frog in my basement would crawl out from under his rock to greet her
happily.

But that’s another story.