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    Cheers, Donna V.: Mind, Body, and Spirit, #2
    Cheers, Donna V.: Mind, Body, and Spirit, #2
    Cheers, Donna V.: Mind, Body, and Spirit, #2
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    Cheers, Donna V.: Mind, Body, and Spirit, #2

    By Donna V.

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    This is the true story of a woman's courage and determination to begin a new life half-way around the world on the continent of Australia. It introduces the reader to the people she meets, the lifestyle she adopts, and the spiritual path she chooses to follow which collectively provide a solution for eliminating the negative emotions of fear and worry in her world. Come along for the ride as we follow Donna V.'s adventure "down under," re-living her most pivotal year.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPele Publishing
    Release dateMay 16, 2015
    ISBN9781513044385
    Cheers, Donna V.: Mind, Body, and Spirit, #2
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    Donna V.

    Raised in South Florida and presently residing on the island of Hawai'i, Donna was a former university professor and fashion designer. It was her extensive travel which began at a very young age that created an intense interest in multi-national culture, eventually leading to a Master of International Business Administration (MIBA) degree - providing the entry to a career as a professor of international business. Donna's belief that we are all here on this beautiful planet to experience life lessons and be of assistance to others as they travel their "spiritual road" through life led her to become a successful author. She has completed the first part of her commitment to the Divine to do his work in our world today with the six-book series, "Mind, Body, and Spirit." The second half of that promise is sure to include both private and public speaking engagements and continued international travel. In the future, Donna looks forward to enjoying her well-established active outdoor lifestyle featuring "open water" swimming and outrigger canoe paddling. Her path has been an exciting and very fulfilling one and she plans to keep generously sharing her "gifts" with others as long as she lives. As Donna says, "This is a guarantee..."

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      Cheers, Donna V. - Donna V.

      Other Books by Donna V.

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      Transformation

      Aloha

      Rejuvenation

      Focus

      Confidence

      Copyright © 2013 Donna V.

      All rights reserved

      ISBN: 149287339X

      ISBN 13: 9781492873396

      The Hermit Crab

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      A friend came over to visit me this morning, quite unexpectedly. After living in Hawai’i her entire life she has decided to move across the ocean to New Zealand. Having three young children and only months until her middle child is ready for school, she will take the leap now and enroll the two eldest in new schools.

      When she first discussed this move with me she was a bit hesitant and disorganized as to the steps. Now, barely a week later, she is full of enthusiasm about her decision and the work required in creating a new world for herself and her family.

      Since we share a love of the sea on this beautiful island, most of our life analogies revolve around ocean creatures. Therefore, I was not surprised when my friend explained her impending new direction by saying, Donna, I feel like a hermit crab in a ‘too small’ shell. I can see a larger and more beautiful shell just a few short steps away and am now poised to pounce on it and quickly back in. I know this is the right decision for me and my family and I am soooo ready.

      My friend and I discussed the fact that we grew up very much alike. My parents moved my brother and me to Florida for a healthy and happy outdoor lifestyle and hers moved their family to the island of Hawai’i. While it may sound idyllic to many people reading this, for both of us it became constricting.

      Yes, I had the opportunity to travel which provided adventure and a brief interaction with different cultures. However, the chance to live amongst an entirely new and stimulating group did not present itself for me until I packed up and moved forward to Australia, a distance of 11,424 miles.

      Like my friend, I had the motivation to exit many years before I actually boarded the plane for my promised land of Perth, Australia. When I first arrived, I felt like a hermit crab without a shell. Everything was new and different and I was offered no protection at all. As Shelley (a good friend in New York) so aptly put it just before my departure, "You don’t actually know anyone over in Australia, do you?"

      For the first time in my life I would be living by myself. I left my parents’ home the day I married my husband. When I left my husband, I moved in with my brother for a few months. Now, halfway across the world I was starting anew. This would be an existence with only Donna to worry about. I had spent the first part of my life being a good daughter, a good sister, and a good wife. Now I could be anything I wanted to be. How very exciting!

      I felt elated. I was not scared or apprehensive in the least. I was motivated by the Divine to get myself in gear immediately and make things happen...

      Preface

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      To begin a new life requires a new way of living and new rules to live by—not necessarily a new address. Change is something you must learn to welcome. You must embrace it, partner up with it and allow it to move you forward. To change your life also means learning to let go.

      You will be forced to release the negative emotions that have been holding you back in your spiritual existence up to this point. A group of feelings that is certain to include the terrible duo of fear and worry. These two emotions force us to constantly look back when we should be directed forward, thus creating confusion in our lives instead of clarity.

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      Let Go and Trust in God

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      You can only let go when you feel the security of the presence of the Divine.

      You can only feel the presence of the Divine when you are silent.

      You can only be still when you eliminate all internal noise and worry.

      This brings us back to trust.

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      I trust in the Divine that my needs will always be met exceeding even my greatest dreams for happiness, health, and prosperity.

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      I Believe, I Believe, I Believe

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      Spirituality for today’s lifestyle is not found in ancient texts or works of enlightened beings that walked our planet thousands of years in the past. It is gleaned from the everyday examples of seemingly ordinary but guided individuals.

      I have written this book with the help of the Divine for those struggling with the negative emotions of fear and worry. These emotions had loomed over me like a dark cloud for more years than I care to admit and it took a move halfway across the globe to finally eliminate them both from my life.

      I accomplished this task on my own without actually knowing my purpose for moving to Australia. Now I know the purpose and am thrilled to give others a few hints in the hope that their walk may become just a little easier because I traveled the path ahead of them.

      I am relaying these lessons to you, my readers, exactly as I received them knowing that they will succeed in changing your life as quickly and completely as they changed mine.

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      I love you all,

      Contents

      Other Books by Donna V.

      The Hermit Crab

      Preface

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 The Apartment

      Chapter 2 The City

      Chapter 3 The Friends

      Chapter 4 The School

      Chapter 5 The Classmates

      Chapter 6 The Solitude

      Chapter 7 The Design Studio

      Chapter 8 The Accidents

      Chapter 9 The Art

      Chapter 10 The Choices

      Conclusion

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      Introduction

      This is a true story of twenty spiritual people living in Australia that have perfected the lesson of unconditional love, contentedly living it in their daily lives. During my stay in the continent Down Under they happily helped me learn to let go becoming my teachers along my journey—watching as I released my fears and gained strength in mind and body.

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      Here are their stories...

      Chapter 1

      The Apartment

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      My life in Australia began and ended at the Mercure Hotel. It was there that I spent my first and last night in the land down under. It was also at this hotel that I began collecting my large group of friends. The first of which was Nicholas aka Steve-O, my painter friend, who found me my apartment.

      Alexis was the front desk manager and Matthew was in charge of the valet services. Both of them were invaluable helps in learning the ins and outs of the city.

      It was to Matthew that I turned when I finally secured my apartment at 2 St. Georges Tce. Luckily for me the place came with a parking space and a large storage room in the underground garage. A quick look at the decorating scheme for my new digs sent me running for moving help. It ended up taking only two hours for Matthew and an assistant to improve my surroundings by storing all of the unnecessary furniture.

      Believing that I would be living in this location for the next three years (my original plan) I went through the apartment inventory quickly and eliminated three thick glass tables (too dangerous), a large throw rug (too dirty!), all the bed linens for both bedrooms (too greasy, yuk), and the television/VCR unit and adjoining sound system (too tempting). The barstools which looked as if they were designed for a one-hundred pound great-aunt were also stored, as well as three single chairs which I deemed clutter. I decided at the last minute on extracting the lamps from both bedrooms and added them to the pile. Thanking my helpers while breathing a sigh of relief, I paused to look around my almost bare apartment. What I saw looked great!

      Next, came the cleaning. It took three weeks to get the place habitable. Apparently, this is typical with rentals-especially in Australia. I scrubbed the walls, washed and waxed the wood floors, took a brush and several buckets of hot soapy water out to attack the balcony, de-greased the kitchen, detailed both bathrooms, washed the windows, and had the carpet re-shampooed in both bedrooms. Whew!

      When I finally sat down, exhausted but happy, I took out my pen and accessed what remained in the apartment and what was needed. On the have side I wrote: black leather loveseat, medium-size round dining table, desk, two grey ultra modern plastic chairs, two queen-size beds and four end tables. On the need side I wrote: four new bedroom lamps, two standing lamps, one large rug, two large paintings, four colorful folding chairs, several European pillows, eight new bed pillows, two new duvets, new towels, and new bed linen for both bedrooms.

      Shopping in the city was my favorite part of the project. In Perth they

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