Let Your Goddess Grow!: 7 Spiritual Lessons on Female Power and Positive Thinking

"Let Your Goddess Grow: 7 Spiritual Lessons on Female Power and Positive Thinking" is an empowering book spiked with affirmations to nurture and enrich a woman's soul and psyche. The seven spiritual lessons are: gain insight by examining the past; manage the daily complexity of work, family, and you; become stronger through adversity; define who you are by knowing your true self; create a mental equivalent to manifest what you desire; use spirit and strength to guide work life; and bring Mother God into your work and life. Proctor uses affirmations to help imprint the lessons in our subconscious. The chapter on Abundance starts with "I have everything I need in life. My supply is limitless and I continually accept gifts from the universe." Towards the end of each chapter is a section entitled "Consciously Create Your Day," listing several affirmations for the various personal challenges covered by the lesson. For example, for the chapter on "Your Authentic Self," this is the affirmation for Aging: "Each stage in my life is wonderful. My wisdom and experience acquired from life make me a person who has a lot to offer the world. Every moment I continue to engage in the world is valuable to others. I no longer need disease or illness to secure a place in the world. I am shining, with all my wisdom, in my security. I feel safe knowing no one can take my place." Proctor caps each lesson with "Taking Spiritual Inventory" where she asks us to analyze our personal circumstances, write our own affirmation, and list specific action plans. The closing sections of each chapter serve as intimate self-dialogues, where Proctor guides us to appreciate ourselves and map a course to further improvement. In not so subtle terms, Proctor taps the spiritual nerve to stress the power of the divine in every woman's daily endeavor. Some may feel that the book is religious, even risqué in the idea that God is both Mother and Father. But if we go beyond the parameters of religion, and transcend to the laws of life and the power of the mind, we will realize that the lessons presented in this book are, in fact, universal. "Let Your Goddess Grow" is a must read for today's female. It fleshes out universal truths and awakens the inner senses. It is enlightening, empowering, and absolutely essential to the well-being of the woman within. -Ruby Bayan, www.OurSimpleJoys.com

Let Your Goddess Grow! 7 Spiritual Lessons on Female Power and Positive Thinking review by Bonnie Cehovet author: Charlene M. Proctor, Ph.D. The Goddess Network Press 2005 ISBN #0-9766012-0-6 I don't know a woman out there who isn't looking for some way to empower herself. A growing portion of those women are actually willing to work on themselves, to learn to unconditionally love who and what the are. It is for these women that Charlene Proctor writes. This is more than a book to read ... it is a template to be put into practice. Through applying these lessons, you will learn to recognize old patterns that are holding you back, find ways to release them and replace them with positive patterns that will support your personal and spiritual growth. You will discover the divine feminine within, and, through her, manifest your independence from cultural and familial imposed boundaries. The seven spiritual lessons in this book are: 1. Insight - Gain insight by examining the past. 2. Balance - Manage the daily complexity of work, family, and you. 3. Resiliency - Become stronger through adversity. 4. Your Authentic Self - Define who you are by knowing your true self. 5. Abundance - Create a mental equivalent to manifest what you desire. 6. Corporate Soul - Use spirit and strength to guide work life. 7. The Divine Feminine - Bring Mother God into your work and life. In each lesson Dr. Proctor shares her personal philosophy and insights, as well as reflections from her life and exercises that allow the knowledge of the lesson to be turned into wisdom in the readers life. Liberally sprinkled throughout are side-bars with comments from women like you and I ... everyday women who have thoughts on their own spirituality. At the beginning of each lesson are a few words of wisdom. For Lesson 1 - Insight - the words of wisdom are: "We gain insight by allowing change in our lives, and letting go of the past." At the end of each lesson, Dr. Proctor brings it all together with a section entitled "Taking Spiritual Inventory", consisting of a series of question to help you analyze where your blockages are, followed by formation of an affirmation centered on what you wish to manifest in your life. "Walk Your Talk" is a section where the reader is encouraged to list actions and realistic that the reader can make to support a new set of goals. "Share the Spirit" encourages readers to share their insights with others around them - whether in a formal group setting or in their everyday life. The reader is also encouraged to allow others to help them create and stick to new changes. For some people, viewing the Divine as both masculine and feminine will be akin to shock treatment. For some, it will be their salvation. The research that went into this book, the presentation of the history of the Feminine archetype, and the Feminine in the Divine, are quite well done. This book is well worth reading - even if you don't agree with it. It will make you think, it will

This is the book for the woman who is stiving for more. More confidence, more self-esteem, more abundance, more resiliancy, more courage to become the person she longs to be. Dr. Proctor helps the reader uncover hidden strengths and develop new goals. She gently shows the reader how to overcome the setbacks of the past while honoring, not forgetting, the lessons that were gained from the struggles. Men will enjoy this book too, especially if they have ever tried to understand the beautiful, inner strength of the women who most influence their lives. By JoAnna Carey, Author of Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life

Charlene M. Proctor, PhD, has written a no-nonsense inspirational gem in Let Your Goddess Grow! 7 Spiritual Lessons on Female Power and Inspirational Thinking. Now, it surprises me to some extent to re-read this last sentence as I have just written it, because (a) as the CEO of Enlightenment.Com, I have read an extraordinary number of self-help books in the last thirty years or so, and most of what I now read is repetitive or derivative, and (b) I usually don't like books that start out promoting one group (e.g., women) at the expense of another (e.g., men). What makes this book special, then, is not so much its amalgam of cutting-edge brain change science, reality co-creation theory, and positive thinking, but the place of clarity, courage, and wisdom that the author obviously writes from. Charlene Proctor writes (or rather, sources) this book from the very place that she is point to, and therefore the many lessons and hints that she presents come through in a thoroughly enthusiastic, practical, and modern way. Proctor boils it all down to 7 lessons: * Insight: How Do We Gain Insight? * Balance: Manage the Daily Complexity of Work, Family, and You * Resiliency: Become Stronger Through Adversity * Your Authetnic Self: Define Who You Are by Knowing Your True Self * Abundance: Create a Mental Equivalent to Manifest What You Desire * Corporate Soul: Use Spirit and Strength to Guide Work Life * The Divine Feminine: Bring Mother God into Your Work and Life For each of these, she uses a variety of descriptions, exercises, and affirmations to get us to approach things differently, or rather, to approach the creative spiritual powers that we hold in a practical and enthusiastic manner. For example, in the lesson on Abundance, she further develops her idea of "labyrinth thinking" and tells us the following: Why is it helpful to apply labyrinth thinking to reach prosperity consciousness? Because we already know life is an infinite journey. The labyrinth is a metaphor for the universal superstructure we operate within - it offers an exercise in personal growth. Each time we take retreat and take self-inventory, we can go deeper within and come out with something new, whether it's a refreshed attitude or great spiritual awareness. It's the cyclical outlook on life that keeps us coming back to the center, to our self. There will never be an end to the process, only different venues with more elaborate choices. And our experiences are for our own benefit: otherwise, how would we learn to reach our own potential? Having prosperity consciousness means that each time we vocalize what we want in our lives, we have to cooperate with spirit and not just wait for it to happen. Aciton opens the flow. We must have the courage to walk. Always be aware of who you are and listen to your higher self. Everything you experience outside the labyrinth is a reflection of your inner world of thoughts and feelings. As within, so without. As above, so below. In the world aro

We are our own worse enemy. As women, we train ourselves to believe what society has forced upon us -- men deserve and will gain every bit of praise and glory. I love Charlene's new book as it will equip you and each woman with the insight needed to love yourself and grow by leaps and bounds. If you are female, you must read this amazing book and sit back and take it all in stride that you really are worthy of many blessings. The seven lessons may be as plain as the nose on your face, but if we do not do anything with them, it won't matter. I am so excited about this new book that I am giving it for Christmas gifts to all my female friends and hoping to do the same for male buddies. Husbands need to read it too. Another one of my favorite books, especially for moms to think of themsleves as the real CEOs in life and in their households, is Mommy CEO. They are both full of reasons why we should let go and let God help us in our daily attacks on ourselves and live life to the highest potential, especially in our own home and with our own family and life in general. In fact, it was the author of Mommy CEO who recommended Charlene's book and I will be forever grateful!