Hot Secrets to Say Yes to Love

Like a lot of couples you probably started your relationship with lots of passion and heated sex, but now find the romance dwindling, with sex taking a back seat to the TV. Today's hectic pace of life and auto-pilot living can take over, leaving romance and love in the dust. Take control of your love life by planning a romantic evening to bring love and passion back to your bedroom.

• If you idea of celebrating love is sitting on the couch with your couch potato. Turn the TV off and set the mood for romance. She may have lost her libido to the remote control. Follow these rituals to create a magical romantic evening.

• Pick up her favorite flowers and a mood candle. Make sure that you show up first before her. Put the flowers on the nightstand and light the mood candle.

• Put clean red sheets on the bed. Leave a love note on her pillow with rose petals under the sheet.

• Run a hot bath in the tub five minutes before she arrives. Add three drops each of lavender, ylang ylang, rose geranium, clary sage and marjoram to a teaspoon of honey and add this to her bath just before she enters. Put on her favorite music and quickly get in the shower.

• When she arrives take her directly to the bathroom and help her undress. Have her slip into the bath. Roll a towel and slip it under her head.

• Once she is ready to leave her heavenly bath. Have a nice bathrobe for her to slip into. Lay her on the bed in her bathrobe on top of the rose petals. Take a relaxing lotion like lavender and massage her feet.

She is now relaxed and in the mood. The rest is up to you. Take your time to focus on what you love about each other and make the most of the moment. It is up to you to create love or push love away with an over busy schedule and then collapsing in front of the tv.

Seize the moment and create the love you want. Click here for information on couples retreats to help you recapture love and romance. Leave me a message and let me know what is your favorite love ritual.

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Oprah, Love, Romance and Valentine's Day

What are you watching on TV for romance on Valentine's Day? Oprah may be a good pick for the woman in the house but probably better to pick a movie like Notebook to spice up your romance. We just watched Hitch last night. It was a sweet gift from my honey for our 17th anniversary. Looking for a romantic movie to share with your Valentine? Try Notebook.

Notebook was a 2004 best romantic movie of the year. Ryan Gosling and Racheal McAdams star in this tear-jerker about first love. Allie and Noah meet at a carnival and fall madly in love. But, Allie's rich family doesn't approve of poor Noah and forces them apart. The Notebook is definitely a flick that you have to watch with a box of Kleenex at your side.

Happy Valentine's Day. Hope you share your love with someone very special. If you are looking for a very specail Valentine's gift check out our retreats.

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A Beautiful Sunrise. Leave us a message regarding your best sunrise!

Cool Book of the Day

Love's Secret is featured as cool book of the day. Check it out and the person who leaves the nicest kudo on the site will win a copy! Follow this link.

You might wonder what is a kudo. Just a nice pat on the back. I have much more respect for authors now since Love's Secret was released by Sedona Publisher's in Nov 2007. It has been a big learning curve and a lot of hard work. Love's Secret was also awarded Finalist by USA Book News in their Self Help Relationship category.

Go on over and leave your kudos and win a copy of the cool book of the day. Love's Secret will help you deal with your relationship commitment issues and help your live your life in love with the love of your life.

Here is an excerpt:

Craving Love—Fearing Love

Bob had just met the woman of his dreams. Based on his past, he was scared to death he would mess up again. When Bob first entered my office, he was desperate for answers. He wanted to succeed this time more than anything else in the world. In the past when he made a commitment, his fears would surface, and he himself sabotaging the relationship.

This time he wanted things to be different, not by chance, but because he had a plan and tools to deal with his fear of intimacy. He was terrified of love which kept him commitment phobic, but he had never realized his patterns. During our sessions he discovered his fear, and the EFT offered him hope that he could heal. In the past he had spent his time consumed with searching for the one, the perfect mate.

Face the Fear
In this chapter you will find the secret for dealing with fear of intimacy and commitment and the underlying fears that can keep you caught in the swinging doors of toxic relationships.

LOVE’S SECRET number one is to make a commitment to your own healing. You can then be a support within the relationship for healing your issues as a couple. This chapter explores what commitment means and why you or your mate might be commitment phobic. You will find solutions to overcome your phobias and tools to build new habits to live your life in love. Your commitment to your own inner-healing will build a base for a happy, long-term, loving relationship.

*Exercises for journaling and inner-reflection are included throughout the book.
*These exercises are intended to connect you with your inner wisdom and find answers to create the life and relationship that you have longed for.
*Quiet inner-reflection through journaling allows ideas and hidden inner-desires to bubble up from within.
*Once you have your inner answers on paper, you can examine them and focus your energy to create your heart’s desire.

If you have any questions leave your comment below. Also I am giving away a copy Feb29 to the person who has left the most comments on this blog. Join in the discussion. What is your biggest reltionship commitment issue?

A Happy Ending

A Happy ending to a sad New Year's beginning.
Last month, while riding in a New York City taxi, a young woman named Erika Gunderson found a $500 Canon digital camera that the cab's previous occupant had left behind.

She, her boyfriend, and his mom decided to create a happing ending. After much searching found the rightful owner.

Murphy, an insurance underwriter, had been devastated to lose the pictures from a trip he had planned for years. It was Jan. 10 _ his 34th birthday _ when he heard he would be getting the photos back. "I was over the moon," he says now. "Best present ever."

"I owe you one," he wrote to Ascher. "It's good to know there are some honest people left in the world."

Such a heart warming up lifting story. Great to acknowledge that we do have wonderful honest people who go the extra mile and give their best. Kudos to this family for their determination.

Do you have experiences where you have received or given a gift like this to someone you don't know or have never met? Just met a new blogger over at Spa Clientele check out her post on Zen and Simplicity--great post.

Love Secrets for Your Bucket List

What's on your bucket list? How do you add joy to you life? Follow these simple suggestions add joy to each day. Just read a post by Publicity Hound
and decided to follow her lead by writing about the bucket list. She publishes great publicity tips weekly on her blog.

One of the major messages from the trailer for Bucket list is to add joy to your life daily. Gift yourself something that you love each day. When is the last time you danced? Most of the retreat guest who visit us in Sedona respond the same way when asked this question. I love to dance--but I don't have time or I don't have a partner. I haven't asked anyone this question that I haven't gotten that answer to. So how do you include dancing in your life and gift yourself with joy? Simple!

Take a dance or movement class and learn to tap into and move your emotions. Choose music that you love and respond to. Find a comfortable space and schedule time to move to the music. Get inspired! Watch how Ellen DeGeneres transforms herself and audience when the music starts and the dancing begins. Feel the emotion as you watch each couple compete on Dancing with the Stars.

You are the only person who can add joy to your life if you wait for someone else you will miss out. Share your Bucket List for adding joy to your life!

Wordless Wednesday--Couple Reunited After 60 Years

A Beautiful Love Story--To warm Your Heart!

This is a heart warming story, that affirms that love does win--although sometimes it may take years! Get your Kleenex ready and enjoy!

Three days after their wedding, Anna Koslov kissed her husband Boris goodbye. A soldier in Russia's Red Army, he was set to rejoin his military unit. The young couple expected that they would be together again soon, ready to begin the joys of married life, and to raise a family together.

But when Boris returned home from his military expedition, he found the house cold and empty. When he called his wife's name, there was only the echo of his own voice. Anna was gone.

Under the brutal regime of Joseph Stalin, Anna and her family had been declared enemies of the state. Boris' new bride was sent into exile in the vast plains of Siberia, with no chance to contact her husband. He didn't even know if she was still alive.

"I threatened to commit suicide rather than go because I couldn't live without him," she told The Telegraph, "but in the end I was forced to go. It was the most miserable time of my life."

Boris spent years searching for his lost love, but never found a trace of her. Over the years, both Boris and Anna remarried other people, and had children. But they never forgot about one another: After Boris became a writer, he dedicated a book to Anna, the woman he had loved and lived with for a mere three nights.

As time went by, Boris and Anna's respective spouses passed away. Last year, Anna, a lonely widow, went back to visit the old house where she and Boris had spent those precious few nights. Now an elderly woman, she wanted to pay tribute to the time they'd shared there, knowing that she would never see her husband again.

In a remarkable twist of fate, the town received another long-lost visitor on that very same day – an 80-year-old man who had come to lay flowers at his parents' gravestone. But when he caught sight of the woman across the road, he knew something else had drawn him there.

"I thought my eyes were playing games with me," Anna said. "I saw this familiar-looking man approaching me, his eyes gazing at me. My heart jumped. I knew it was him. I was crying with joy."

It was Boris, the man she thought she'd lost for good 60 years ago.

"I ran up to her and said: 'My darling, I've been waiting for you for so long. My wife, my life..." he said.

"I couldn't take my eyes off her. Yes, I had loved other women when we were separated. But she was the true love of my life."

Never give up on love and always follow your intuition there is always a reason for those gentle urges inside. Listen and allow yourself to be blessed. When we ignore our inner urges we never know what blessings we deny ourselves!

Fighting Fair To Keep Passion and Love Alive

Learning to clear your disagreements without using out old tactics that destroy love; shows signs of emotional maturity. It is an art to air your dirty laundry and reach a compromise without closing your heart.

When you begin a serious discussion on an issue that has an emotional charge; make an agreement to find a mutual compromise. Begin the discussion by taking five minutes at the beginning to sit and look into the eyes of your partner. Focus on your commitment to your mate and what you love about them, and remember your goal to find a mutual compromise. Your commitment will keep you on track and avoid falling into old habits of arguing to prove your point. When you begin a discussion with an agreement to find a compromise, there is a higher purpose to guide you through.

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."-Kahlil Gibran
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own.”
-Jubel in Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein

Finding Your Way Back to Love through Love's Secret

If you have lost that loving feeling and need to find your way back to love follow this secret. When you are feeling like you can't let go of anger, pain, and resentment; ask yourself what's important. You are never upset at what you think you are upset at. And if you quickly assess your stance you will find that with a commitment to love you can't hold on to anger. Quickly decide what you want to commit to--anger or love. Anger is poison and not a good emotion to be committed to. Love builds health, heart connections, and leaves you feeling good inside.

Find your way back to love--commit to focus on love and give yourself permission to let go of anger. Anger causes many stress related health problems and is not worth pushing love away.

Make a commitment to love by never going to bed angry. A moment wasted in anger is love lost forever. Share your secrets with me on how you stay focused on love.

Writer's Strike--Looking for Love In all the Wrong Places

Looking for love in all the wrong places? Write a new script to allow love into your life and create your own golden globe award.

Put your fears in the past and reach out to new unexplored territory to meet the person of your dreams. Open your heart and allow yourself to feel the deep well of love inside. Recognize your patterns and how you push love away and resolve to allow love into your life. Open yourself up to new experiences that stretch you beyond your limits. In order to step into your power step out of your comfort zone.

Writer's Strike? Who wrote this script?

Writer's are still on strike and unable to watch your favorite weekly show. Take time to look at the script that continues to run your life. Are you tired of all the old reruns and patterns that always turn out the same. Make this year your year to write a script for success in love, money and your life.

It's a good time to determine what success means to you and then create your script to make it happen. Success to many is money and the things that money can buy. But money can't buy love, passion and romance. If you give all of your time to the pursuit of money and "things" money can buy; one day you will wake up with regret. Leave me a post and let me know what success means to you.

Is Britney Bipolar--Or Emotionally Unstable

5 steps to emotional stability

1. Learn to be still within and enjoy your own company. One of the best paths to learn stillness is yoga and pranayama.
2. Eat a healthy diet with several small meals each day. This helps to stabalize blood sugar as well as moods.
3. Avoid sugary foods, alcohol, and refined carbohydrates. Eat fresh vegetables and lots of greens.
4. Schedule time for exercise that you enjoy and can incorporate daily.
5. Establish a spiritual connection and spend time deepening that connection daily.

Learn to develop a healthy and happy attitude. No matter how unhappy you might be--you can choose to change your attitude. An attitude of gratitude can bring about positive change.

Writers Still on Strike?Here'sYour Script for Passion, Success and Love!

Looking to write a new script for your love relationship? Want to heat up your bedroom and create more love, passion, and romance? Here's your new script for passion, love, and romance.

Create a vision for what you want in your love relationship. A love relationship can be riddled with land mines waiting for the wrong reaction to set off an explosion of emotions. Free yourself of old toxic emotional reactions that push love and passion away, and focus your thoughts, emotions and actions on love habits. Love habits build a foundation for a flourishing garden for love. Each day give something to the person you love and show them how much you love and appreciate having them in your life.

Text message a love note to your partner and plan a hot date. Build excitement with the one you love. It doesn't matter whether you just met them or if they have been a partner for years. You must invest time, love, attention and keep dating in order to create excitement; otherwise passion dies.

Write your Own Script!

Tired of the old story that has you locked in pain and drama? Then write a new script and put writing on your inner walls that supports love, passion and romance. Love's Secret award winner in self help relationship empowers you with tools to write a script to support your love relationship. Follow these tips to live your life in love with the love of your life.

1. Post notes on your mate's mirror and remind them how much you love them. Make a date for sometime later in the week and keep that date. Build expectation for the date and make it as hot as you wish!

2. Make a commitment to yourself and your mate to focus on love "thoughts" and let your stinking thinking go.

3. At an unexpected time text message or leave a message on your mate's phone reminding them of the up coming date. Play, keep fun, and magic alive in your reltionship.

Check out these blogs for other suggestions on fun and romance http://www.blogher.com/write-new-script-2008.

Love's Secret Wins Finalist Self-Help Relationship Book

Love’s Secret: Live Your Life In Love wins USA Book News Award
Sedona, Arizona, — USABookNews.com announced the winners for its National “Best Books” 2007 Awards and Love’s Secret: Live Your Life In Love was awarded Finalist in the “Self-Help: Relationships” category. Annie B. Lawrence, Ph.D., author of Love’s Secret says this award validates the years of research and work creating her book. She feels the timing is perfect for what people living in today’s tumultuous times need to strengthen their relationships with themselves and their partners.
Love’s Secret offers seekers an action plan to create love, romance and passion and leave pain and drama in the past. Empty nesters find easy steps to recapture romance and passion, and all couples find answers to build a foundation based on love – not conditions. The pain and drama we have all become accustomed to, creates stress and can literally make you sick.
Many who have watched The Secret, and read the Power of Now, still feel stuck in patterns that create chaos. By reading Love’s Secret, connecting to a chapter or character and putting the information into practice, you are empowered to live your life in choice.Love’s Secret makes creating our reality a simple and achievable task. What the world needs now is love sweet love has never been truer. Our world at war and even closer to home, the shootings in our school system make love and peace a valuable commodity.
Love’s Secret offers tools that empower readers to find inner peace and live their life in love. Retreat and Heal’s programs and workshops put them into practice. People travel from around the world to visit Sedona for its peace and beauty, find the inner peace and love you deserve at Retreat and Heal in Sedona Arizona. Annie B. Lawrence, author, is a spiritual life coach and keynote speaker and is available at 928.282.5237
ISBN # 978-0-9793535-0-5
$22.95 212 pages

To Place orders for the book or receive an autographed copy contact Sedona Publishershttp://www.retreatandheal.com/products.html or order your copy at 55% off on Amazon.com and stuff your stocking with love!