If You Believe, You Can Fly.: An Alphabetical Guide to Spiritual Growth and Personal Happiness.

By Sean G Cochrane

Sean Cochrane has worked in the energy efficient and sustainable products field for the past twenty years. Over that time, he has gained experience across three continents, building several businesses and a green franchise model in Australia. In 2010 he and his family moved to West Palm Beach in the USA to join forces with United Franchise group, become the president of SuperGreen Solutions and roll out the SuperGreen Solutions Franchise model. Sean plans to continue opening stores in the United States and cementing Master franchise agreements worldwide.

He lives with Clare, the love of his life, in Florida in the USA and or in Queensland Australia. Together they work to make the planet a better place through helping others. They continually strive to educate people to become more sustainable thus minimizing pollution. All the while promoting the triple bottom line maxim of People, Planet then Profit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Feb 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781452569260

Sean G Cochrane

In a horrific accident when he was sixteen years old, Sean broke thirteen bones in his body, almost lost his left leg, and experienced clinical death on the operating table. He had a near-death experience and, while unfamiliar with the term and that there were others who had died and come back, he found that this experience changed him forever. The lessons he learned at sixteen were further hammered home during a very challenging period in his marriage, which ultimately lead to the creation of the guide you are holding. Presented in clear language, this is an alphabetical listing of inspirational topics. Subjects and meditations may be selected and digested easily for maximum efficiency. Sean shares his personal experiences and insight on how to beat impossible odds and achieve a personal best. You too can soar like an eagle when you spread your mind’s wings and fly.

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ISBN: 978-1-4525-6925-3 (sc)

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Balboa Press rev. date: 03/24/14

Dedication: To my family:-

Thank you for your love and everything that you have taught me. You have my unconditional love. The men have made me stronger and the women have made me real. My greatest, joys and teachers have been my wife, Clare and my Daughter Maxinne. I thank you all.

To all whose paths have intersected with mine:-

I thank you for everything that you inadvertently conferred on me. Your teachings and lessons have been the gifts that led me to find out who, I really am and thus my happiness. I wish you the same.

Lauren – Thank you for your editing and advice, may your books jump from your heart to the eyes of many.

Mom – Thanks for all you have done for me and for this book.

Heather and the team at Balboa – Without your gentle hand and guiding wisdom this book would have been lacking.

To you the reader:-

I congratulate you for being a fellow searcher!

By picking up this book proves that you are no doubt a fellow ‘searcher’… You have clearly embarked on the wonderful journey of discovery into ‘self’ and personal happiness! I firmly believe that a book finds you when you are ready for it rather than the other way around. This has proven true and accurate for me on many occasions. To this end, I hope and trust that what is contained here-in makes sense to you or for you. If not, as they say don’t sweat it. One-day maybe, it will!?

I trust that what is contained in this book and what lies before you on your own journey will widen your awareness, be enlightening and show you what you are capable of. You may learn how to use your mind to unlock gifts and abilities that you never knew were possible. It may help you to understand your mind and body more. Who knows, you may be able to set your mind free and… let it fly?

Reader, I will also request forgiveness for my Dyslexia in advance as what looks correct to me is often seen as poor punctuation and spelling.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface: How to use this guide

Abundance

Acceptance of yourself

Action

Anger

Attacking attack

Awareness expansion

Bake a love muffin

Balance

Be a master

Be the force

Befriend yourself

Being and - not being vulnerable

Being or doing

Belief patterns

Blame

Call on compassion

Calm

Change

Change only what you can

Choice

Communicate with self, with source

Connect

Conscience

Count your blessings

Courage

Create a bubble, don’t live in one

Credit

Cry ‘enough’ and awaken

Decide

Defensive and dependent feelings

Dependency to self-reliance

Do no harm

Dream your life, live your dream

Dreams are the beginning of ‘self’

Embrace

Energize

Energy: exchange & replacement

Fear

Finding fun

Fly Away!

Forgiveness is for giving

Generosity

Give

God force

Gratitude or Thankfulness

Guilt Barriers

Happiness is a journey

Happiness needs time, resolve and work

Harmony works from within

Hate is a cancer

Heart, your heart has the answers

Hiding is hindering

Honesty works

Humble respect

I am the power

Identify what you are

Ignite your heart

Initial injury

Inner wisdom

Inspirational note taking

Know who you are

Laughter lightens the load

Let up, why worry?

Listen

Love

Love - Unconditional love

Love is inside

Love is not dependent

Love Yourself

Make a miracle happen

Manifestation (from ‘man’ and ‘feast’)

Mediocrity is less

Meditation rebuilds

Never say never

Now is the time

Overcome and overflow

Pain

Part of the oneness

Passion

Peace

Peaceful mind

Perfect ways

Positive attitude

Positive un-learning

Power of creation

Problems are opportunities

Problems are presents to grow from

Procrastination

Project your future

Purity

Pure of heart

Purpose, knowing yours

Reality check

Relating to people

Release through admission

Religion and tolerance

Respect is ‘passing it forward’

Responsibility

Responsibility and obligation

Restraining anger

Reveal your ‘self’

Risk

Say your affirmations

Self-centred or selfish

Self Respect

Self-preservation is being selfish

Self-suppression

Smile

Spiritual recognition

Stillness

Stop and listen

Surrender to essence

Take control

Teach

Tension and stress

Think positively about yourself

Thoughtful, thought energy

Time out – take some

Tolerance takes you higher

Trust

Turn on your magnets

Visualisation

Well of knowledge

When self finds source

Work with all of you

Wound removal

You echo yourself

You save your own spirituality

Your primary purpose

Your reflection

Conclusion

The end, or is it?…

Your Notes

About the Author

Foreword

This book is the product of what I have learned along my journey and from what I have read. I have been inspired by the words of wisdom and writings of others. To say that all the concepts and ideas relayed in this book were all mine would not be true as I have been a searcher and looked for reasons and answers in many books, much like you are doing right now. Some of what I learned along the way from these teachers has helped me to make sense of and understand what transpired in my life. So if some of my ideas sound like they have been spoken before, I am guilty as charged. As I too have looked for answers, reasons, understanding, enlightenment and advice in the works of others. To this end as fellow searcher I looked for meanings and wisdom in the words of the Bible, Lao Tse, the Dalai Lama, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Max Ehrmann, Henry Thoreau, Deepak Chopra, Scott Peck and Jane Roberts to name but a few. I credit them all.

Moreover what is contained herein has been learned from the pains, joys, lessons and love that I have had the good fortune to experience along my journey. A journey that I hope has only just begun. One that I hope helps you to better understand yourself and unlocks in you that which you are truly capable of.

This book is more a story about ‘Mind over Me’, rather than a story about ‘Mind over Matter’. I agree that after all is said and done ‘Mind over Matter’ lies at the core of every human creation and endeavor. However, not everybody takes responsibility for themselves and for their own actions but when they finally do. This is when the mind begins taking responsibly for the self, and ‘Mind over me, for me’ begins forming a more aware, powerful and connected being. I encourage you, as a fellow searcher to look into yourself until you find out that the thing standing in your way, is only yourself. As this is when you can begin to re-learn and re-discipline yourself to rebuild and achieve anything you set your mind to. Set yourself free and fly.

My story begins as follows. I came from a