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In10tions: A Mindset Reset Guide to Happiness
How could 10 minutes a day be a game changer for your life? With In10tions, readers will discover how to reset their mindset and consciously make positive changes in their lives, while creating unlimited possibilities through their unconscious mind. In this inspiring guide, Melissa will lead you through a process to set the tone for your day, shift your perceptions, help you reconnect with who you really are, and create a reflective and meditative practice...even if you think you don’t have the time! Our intentions can determine who we become and help us with the manifestation of what we want in our lives. Good or bad, intentions pave the road of our own personal journey of who we are now and who we are capable of becoming. It’s time to ignite your intentions to create a life of happiness, acceptance, gratitude, abundance, and unlimited possibilities!
122 pages, Paperback
First published February 27, 2015
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About the author
Melissa Escaro
3 books2 followersMelissa Escaro is a writer and life coach who teaches individuals mind and body connection and personal development skills. Melissa attended the University of Delaware obtaining her Bachelors degree in Psychology and then Widener University, obtaining her Masters in Clinical Social Work. Her experiences expanded to include mind and body connection through yoga, massage therapy, reiki, meditation, and life coaching, focusing on Neuro Linguistic Programming and Ericksonian Hypnotic Language. Melissa’s integration of modalities, with her positive outlook, allow her to connect with individuals on many different levels, helping them to make their own connection with their mind and body. She is a blogger for the Huffington Postand is the author or In10tions: A Mindset Reset Guide to Happiness, which can be found at www.in10tionsbook.com
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December 6, 2014
This book teaches us an important life lesson – a seemingly simple action, practiced daily, even for short periods of time, can have a powerful impact on our lives. How many times have you started a meditation practice, but soon found it was too difficult, too time-consuming, too overwhelming, to continue? This author has successfully developed a 90-day program to “reset your mindset” – to a more positive, affirming and happy way of being. Ten minutes at the start of your day, and ten minutes at the end of the day, is practical and doable, even for the busiest of days. This effective, daily process is full of wisdom! Anyone who has made the decision to seek transformative personal growth would greatly benefit from this book.
December 13, 2014
Meditation can seem daunting, and many of us put off starting, or getting beyond a certain point because the compulsive thinking of the unobserved mind makes us feel that we are unable to sit in stillness and silence. In10tions gives you a very simple and structured introduction to meditation, and the practicing of increased awareness in your daily life, using simple and short meditational spaces at the beginning and end of each day, easing you into deeper connection with your inner source of conscious awareness.
Meditation is not something separate from your daily life. However when you begin to meditate, just like learning to play a musical instrument, paint, write or dance, you need to put aside dedicated times in which to practice. Whether you are struggling to get started or feeling stuck after months or years of practice, In10tions will be of invaluable help.
A primary purpose of meditation is to free us from the dominance of the habitual thinking mind with its negative thought forms that cause fear, depression, and anxiety. These thought forms exist within us as individuals, and are a part of the human collective that have existed for thousands of years. As we awaken we become more sensitive to these old negative patterns, which can make us feel as if we are regressing, rather than celebrate the fact that we are noticing more through our awakening conscious presence. Practicing the daily exercises in the book will help you to break these patterns by increasing your body awareness, and through the practice of conscious breathing. Both are powerful doorways into the present moment, where all creativity and new life takes place.
Although the book presents a structured daily practice, this is not fixed. There is freedom, and space between the words, allowing you to adapt the practice to your own needs and specific life circumstances. I found myself revisiting some of the earlier practices as I worked through the book, which occurred quite naturally and without any effort on my part.
From a spiritual perspective we are multi-dimensional beings that live in a multi-dimensional universe where everything is an interconnected whole. At your core you are consciousness, and consciousness liberated from negative thoughts brings new - which means creative - life into the world.
When we are caught up in the mind we miss the miracle of life that is present within us, and around us here, now. Unaware of our creative potential we miss the opportunities this miracle continually presents to us. In10tions is a way of helping you to realize your connection to that miracle, and to free up the creativity that is inseparable from who you truly are. In10tions will help you set your intention to be at-one with this wholeness.
Stephen Pope, Author of Patterns of Creation - Logos and the Tree of Life in the Gospel of John.
Meditation is not something separate from your daily life. However when you begin to meditate, just like learning to play a musical instrument, paint, write or dance, you need to put aside dedicated times in which to practice. Whether you are struggling to get started or feeling stuck after months or years of practice, In10tions will be of invaluable help.
A primary purpose of meditation is to free us from the dominance of the habitual thinking mind with its negative thought forms that cause fear, depression, and anxiety. These thought forms exist within us as individuals, and are a part of the human collective that have existed for thousands of years. As we awaken we become more sensitive to these old negative patterns, which can make us feel as if we are regressing, rather than celebrate the fact that we are noticing more through our awakening conscious presence. Practicing the daily exercises in the book will help you to break these patterns by increasing your body awareness, and through the practice of conscious breathing. Both are powerful doorways into the present moment, where all creativity and new life takes place.
Although the book presents a structured daily practice, this is not fixed. There is freedom, and space between the words, allowing you to adapt the practice to your own needs and specific life circumstances. I found myself revisiting some of the earlier practices as I worked through the book, which occurred quite naturally and without any effort on my part.
From a spiritual perspective we are multi-dimensional beings that live in a multi-dimensional universe where everything is an interconnected whole. At your core you are consciousness, and consciousness liberated from negative thoughts brings new - which means creative - life into the world.
When we are caught up in the mind we miss the miracle of life that is present within us, and around us here, now. Unaware of our creative potential we miss the opportunities this miracle continually presents to us. In10tions is a way of helping you to realize your connection to that miracle, and to free up the creativity that is inseparable from who you truly are. In10tions will help you set your intention to be at-one with this wholeness.
Stephen Pope, Author of Patterns of Creation - Logos and the Tree of Life in the Gospel of John.
December 4, 2014
“In10tions” is a remarkably wise, gentle and loving guide for how to begin a meditation practice. Melissa Escaro is a spiritual explorer and life coach, who, in addition to a daily yoga and meditation practice, has done a deep study of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). Her approach to meditation is fundamentally wide open and non-dogmatic; as she says, “The key to remember is there is no one ‘correct’ way to meditate, you do what works for you.” In her own practice, each day she uses some different key word, such as “Love” or “Faith”, to create an intention, a focus point for the meditation, and then brings her mind back to that word during the meditation from time to time, and “allows the mind to settle.” She also uses full-length intentions, or affirmations, throughout the day, and in this book she sets forth a 90-day course in setting intentions in our own lives, as an aid not only to developing a meditation practice, but as a foundation for all levels of personal growth. The 10 in the book’s title indicates that only 10 minutes, morning and evening, are needed for this course. This is something anyone can do!
One example of the affirmations Ms. Escaro uses: “My words of affirmation and positivity create the experiences of my life.” The intention word that accompanies that phrase is “Positive,” which can be repeated throughout the day to remind ourselves of our intention. A brief journaling session each evening is included in the process, which focuses on three questions the author provides for that day, about how we made use of our intention and how we might expand that intention in our lives. One of my favorite parts of this book is the single line in italics at the end of each chapter, which in every case seems to convey a dash of profound wisdom, integrating the affirmation with a higher understanding. In the case of the above affirmation, the line is: “The language we use directs the soul to the destination that we seek.” Powerful writing, I must say.
What a delightful and beneficial book this is! I have no doubt that this work will bring about a potent positive transformation in the life of anyone who follows through on the 90-day plan. Heartily recommended!
~Ram Das Batchelder, author of “RISING IN LOVE: My Wild and Crazy Ride to Here and Now, with Amma, the Hugging Saint”
One example of the affirmations Ms. Escaro uses: “My words of affirmation and positivity create the experiences of my life.” The intention word that accompanies that phrase is “Positive,” which can be repeated throughout the day to remind ourselves of our intention. A brief journaling session each evening is included in the process, which focuses on three questions the author provides for that day, about how we made use of our intention and how we might expand that intention in our lives. One of my favorite parts of this book is the single line in italics at the end of each chapter, which in every case seems to convey a dash of profound wisdom, integrating the affirmation with a higher understanding. In the case of the above affirmation, the line is: “The language we use directs the soul to the destination that we seek.” Powerful writing, I must say.
What a delightful and beneficial book this is! I have no doubt that this work will bring about a potent positive transformation in the life of anyone who follows through on the 90-day plan. Heartily recommended!
~Ram Das Batchelder, author of “RISING IN LOVE: My Wild and Crazy Ride to Here and Now, with Amma, the Hugging Saint”
November 24, 2014
What a lovely book - a perfect starting point for anyone wanting to quiet their mind of daily chatter and focus attention on a positive thought process. I wish I would have had this book when I began my own mini meditations not too long ago.
Even if you already have a daily meditation practice, In10tions offers fantastic prompts to find a place in your mind in which to focus and help do away with negative self talk, which most of us have had creep in now and then. With all that we have going on in our busy world, In10tions is a terrific tool to hone in and fine tune our desire for peace and joy in a simple, straightforward and loving way.
With ninety prompts for the ninety days of creating In10tions in one's life, this book could be opened at any page to embark on a creative journey toward whatever change we desire.
This book will be of benefit for the novice or a seasoned journal writer who is looking to delve deeper. In10tions would also make a wonderful gift for someone who wishes to re-direct areas in their life where they feel stuck but are unsure of how or where to begin.
- Alicia Garey, author of What a Blip
Even if you already have a daily meditation practice, In10tions offers fantastic prompts to find a place in your mind in which to focus and help do away with negative self talk, which most of us have had creep in now and then. With all that we have going on in our busy world, In10tions is a terrific tool to hone in and fine tune our desire for peace and joy in a simple, straightforward and loving way.
With ninety prompts for the ninety days of creating In10tions in one's life, this book could be opened at any page to embark on a creative journey toward whatever change we desire.
This book will be of benefit for the novice or a seasoned journal writer who is looking to delve deeper. In10tions would also make a wonderful gift for someone who wishes to re-direct areas in their life where they feel stuck but are unsure of how or where to begin.
- Alicia Garey, author of What a Blip
February 16, 2015
I’m a numerologist so it was the title of this book that attracted me. Why the 10 in the title? I soon discovered that it referred to 10 minutes at the beginning and 10 minutes at the end of each day. That is all the time that Melissa suggests you need to transform your mind from restlessness and confusion to a state of inner peace. Melissa’s simple approach (and I’m a huge fan of simplicity) can help you to make radical changes in your life. After 90 days of setting positive intentions (or should that be In10tions?) your ingrained habits can be left behind to be replaced with positivity and happiness.
I love the structure of this book because structure is what you need when your mind is not peaceful and calm. It’s really user-friendly and written in easy to read language. Can you really transform in 90 days? I believe that you can and this book will be a great help on that journey of transformation. Highly recommended!
I love the structure of this book because structure is what you need when your mind is not peaceful and calm. It’s really user-friendly and written in easy to read language. Can you really transform in 90 days? I believe that you can and this book will be a great help on that journey of transformation. Highly recommended!
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