A Girl's Guide to Greatness: Mystical Paths for Magical Women
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Zailyn Prada MATS
Zailyn Prada is a transpersonal coach and counselor in Southern California. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother. She received her master’s degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology during midlife, as she raised her family and traveled the world on business. Zailyn was born in Costa Rica and learned firsthand the mastery of native herbs and the mystery of the tarot. She has been published in Natural Awakenings, and has written over one hundred articles for Examiner.com. She teaches cooperative parenting workshops for divorcing parents and is an ordained interfaith minister. Zailyn and her husband, Random, live devoted to their children’s physical, emotional, and spiritual progress; protecting the Earth; baking cupcakes; and leaving a legacy of peace, truth, and joy to their grandchildren.
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A Girl's Guide to Greatness - Zailyn Prada MATS
A Girl’s Guide to Greatness
Mystical Paths for Magical Women
Zailyn Prada MATS
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ISBN: 978-1-4525-1769-8 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4525-1770-4 (e)
Balboa Press rev. date: 07/17/2014
Contents
Dedication
Preface
Introduction
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Beginning
Guided Imagery and Decades of Dreams
Guided Imagery Defined
Chapter 2: Early Experiences with Visualization
Innate Ability for Guided Imagery in Children
Cultural Influences on Visualization in Childhood
Chapter 3: Adolescent Experiences with Guided Imagery
Natasha and yoga
Chapter 4: Visualization and Guided Imagery in Early Adulthood
Manifesting Motherhood
Listening to Our Bodies
Using Guided Imagery to Set Priorities
Visualization as a Parent – Maria’s story
Chapter 5: The Use of Guided Imagery for Achieving Goals
Discovering the Power Within
Natasha’s Transition
Chapter 6: Guided Imagery and Transpersonal Development
Revisiting Religion – Geneva explained her challenges
Discovering Transpersonal Psychology-Natasha
Chapter 7: Redefining Ourselves
Healing the Body
Recovery
Chapter 8: Superwoman
Surviving Motherhood with Guided Imagery
Advice to Our Daughters
Personal Experience Staying on the Balance Beam through Inner Work
Personal Experience with Guided Imagery and Visualization
Instructions on Developing a Personal Practice
Guided Imagery Journey for Accessing Your Inner Advisors
Chapter 9: Our Sacred Calling
Love and Midlife
References
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my parents, because dreaming was your job, and I learned my lesson well, to my husband, you are my touch stone and my hero, to my children, because you’ve helped me grow-up and continue to mature day by day, to my grandchildren, because you are the joy that makes it well worth it, and to my best friend, because you’ve held my hand through it all.
Preface
T his is a paper that came together originally as a requirement for my Master’s degree in Transpersonal Studies. It evolved from a scholarly paper into a composite of stories of pain, challenges, growth, and triumph. It is a way to move forward, overcome obstacles, and reach your highest potential. It may not be the way for everyone, but it was the way for these girls, as told to me, in the first person. It is at times beautiful, at times horrible, but it brought them to me to share their story. I hope and pray that these words, so meaningful to us all will also resonate with you. That whether you are twenty-two years old, or going through menopause, you will find yourself somewhere among these pages and see the light at the end of the tu nnel.
With love,
Zailyn
Introduction
T his is an anecdotal look at how a life time practice of Meditation, Guided Imagery, and Visualization for these characters helped them create the most authentic and joyful version of themselves and is not all about happy, happy, joy, joy. Learning can be painful. Real change and growth come from life’s difficult times. To say any one of them was able to sit down and chant OM while sending love and light to an ex-husband as he ran off with his latest fling and left her penniless with three children to raise, is a bold face lie! Moments like those can make a girl fantasize about inventing a pill that would make her ex’s penis shrink until it fell off! Being unable to pay the rent, betrayed by a rebound man
, and ending up in the hospital aren’t exactly smooth sailing either. But there was a pattern about these girls and women, something deep, something sacred, something I, as a spiritual counselor could not have even defined until I was well into my profession. This is what this book explores. Some of these practices they came to intuitively, and some they learned. Still some were family traditions, what I now know to be ancient practices passed down from ancestors, written in books, and taught about in churches and metaphysical centers. There is something we can do to manifest our greatest desires, to heal, and to grow. This book is not perfect. This method is not perfect. It is about how these girls and women found their own sacred paths to personal realization and success. And oh the sweet satisfaction