Catching Courage

The way we move through life is always a choice. Where do you want to go? With Michael Bernard Beckwith's Life Visioning Process, it is possible to follow a specific series of spiritual practices that allows our unique gifts and talents to find expression. On The Life Visioning Process, this charismatic voice and founder and spiritual director of Agape International Spiritual Center presents his first audio course on this powerful process of self-evolution. Expanding on the breakthrough ideas he shared in the hit film The Secret, Beckwith now invites us on a journey through the central practices of the Life Visioning Process, exploring: the stages of spiritual evolution, and the Inner technologies that serve our progress; how to activate the courage to "break your agreement with mediocrity" by catching the higher vision for your life; Life Structures–the fundamental arenas of life–and how to enhance with them meditation, affirmative prayer, alignment with the governing principles of the universe; and more.

After setting up home on the tropical island of Bali with her husband and four children, Helle Amin seemed to have the perfect life. But one day in 2001 Helle's idyllic existence was shattered. She returned home from a shopping trip one evening to find that her children, who should have been safely tucked in their beds, had disappeared. It didn't take Helle long to discover that her Saudi Arabian husband had taken them away to live in his home country.

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Chen was China's first woman to be awarded a master's degree in composition; she often incorporates Chinese instruments and melodies in her music. Born in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, Chen Yi (b. 1953) learned the violin at a young age and continued to play the instrument up to her graduate student years at Columbia University in the late 1980s. In fact, during the Cultural Revolution, Chen had continued to practise the violin even after having been sent to the countryside. By the early 1970s, she had returned to the city where she served as violinist with the local operatic troupe. All of these experiences provided inspiration for the compositions featured on this CD, whether in borrowed operatic and folk tunes, calligraphic gestures, huqin fiddling techniques, imitative sonorities of Chinese traditional instruments (sheng, suona, xiao or qin), inventive use of percussion, or in the vivid depiction of nature. Chen has lived and breathed Chinese operatic tradition and folk culture for decades, while at the same time steeping herself in the study of the Western canon of music.