I might not have listened to the audio version of SOGR 100 times yet, but certainly over 50. It’s magic. I highly recommend it.

I’m an artist and studio time is great for listening. I set it on repeat and listen throughout the day and when taking long car trips. I am repeatedly surprised by how often I freshly “get” something I’ve heard over 50 times yet suddenly leaps out as an epiphany. The information is simple and straight-forward but my experience is, with repeated hearing the simple message begins to sink into the levels and depths getting more powerful with each pass, repatterning my thinking and addressing the myriad of conscious and unconscious “yeah but’s” that permeate the place.

It’s very organic. The lessons become more and more my thinking rather than learnings. A new awareness will totally fill me one day, be so absolute and paradigm shifting then will entirely escape me the next. But the change, I know, I can feel, remains.

A recent example was complete assurance everything was okay. I came in from the studio and until I fell asleep whenever my mind wandered its typical path this thought or phrase would float up and I would instantly and completely be at peace. Deep, certain peace. My muscles relaxed, my thoughts released and deep peace was mine for moments or minutes until the pattern repeated.

The phrase, which might have been, “…for God already approves of all you do,” (from Ecclesiastes, perhaps? I’m not a bible scholar) or perhaps something entirely different but it really doesn’t matter. The words or reaction was no longer available and yet I know I have shifted in some important way.

There are many more examples though I am more inclined to wear them than share them. And honestly, they are so subtle I doubt they would translate well. I’m off to the studio, looking forward to my headset and, gosh, who knows what next!

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The phrase, which might have been, “…for God already approves of all you do,” (from Ecclesiastes, perhaps? I’m not a bible scholar) or perhaps something entirely different but it really doesn’t matter.

Why yes, that IS Ecclesiastes (9:7-10, NIV): "Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do."

I'm delighted the audio is so useful to you, Bobi. There really is something about listening that gets the message deep, isn't there?

Next time some old song you haven't heard in YEARS comes on the radio and you find yourself singing along, remembering all the words without even thinking about them, you'll get just how powerful listening is.

(Happened to me just yesterday. "Ain't no mountain high enough ...")

Yes! That's the verse and songs deep in consciousness is very much the affect.

"Ain't no valley low enough..."

It is the listening that got me here... I do not have Rebecca's version of the book, some other lady reads it and I listen often while I ride the lawn mower or trim the grass. I've found a set of noise canceling earphones work really well while you're working outside like that. Whenever I'm nursing and rehearsing my 'woe is me' stuff I listen to the mp3s of the Life Labs, all of them, one by one... Rebecca's cheerful voice and the encouragement to: 'expect success" often changes my whole outlook on the work I'm doing and my reason behind doing the work. When I listen it also gives me the road map of what's ahead in the actual doing of the LLs....
So thanks, Rebecca for all your hard work and the others that encourage me to make this journey.

Thanks and many blessings to all,
Guenther

You're very welcome, Guenther. My pleasure! In fact, there's no actual "work" -- hard or otherwise -- involved at all. I love what I do so it's just play.

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When I listen it also gives me the road map of what's ahead in the actual doing of the LLs....

May I ask what that means? (road map of what's ahead) Are you saying you're just listening to them "in advance" before actually sitting down and DOING them and taking the time advised to let them do their work? (I do have a good reason for asking about that.)

Thanks Rebecca, for the question.
I have listened to and still listen ahead, even before and while doing the work with LL1 and now LL2.... It is similar to me as the story you relate about the headlights at night on a trip to somewhere much further away. in order for me to take the trip with the SOGR, there needed to be a map of where I'm going (reading the book and listening to all the LLs gave me the 'where I'm going on this part of my journey) and beginning the work (actually doing the first LL) is trust that I'll get to where I'm going, eventually, but I can only see, for now, a little bit, like the headlights at night .... Sometimes just listening to the tone of your voice, the upbeat way you present the material is enough to get me out of a crummy mood, and that is also very helpful to me right now.

And so, Thanks again, with many Blessings to you too,
Guenther

Cd's are nice. SOGR does sound differently that way than the way I read it. Thanks.