Mastering Order ? Part I | Clarendon Consulting

There have been a handful of astounding revelations in my life, most of which have dawned slowly on my befuddled brain. Two of those are: the power of positive affirmation and the power of language.

This week, in the first part of a 2-part offering taken from her ?Notes from my Book Launch Talk,? Liliane Grace shares her journey with these two revelations, and even further.

As the daughter of a Jewish woman in WWII Poland, Liliane?s life view comes from a very unique perspective. And we are in the unique position of being able to learn from her journey.

Wishing you open hearts and minds,
Sheryl Cooper
Editor

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Mastering Order ? Part I

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It?s not often you get to pick the brain of an acclaimed international writer, and further, to be able to add your own 2 cents? worth. But Liliane Grace allowed a foray into her magical mind. I hope you will be able to follow my ramblings among her magical words:

Sheryl: Liliane, writing a book such as The Mastery Club must have been such a unique experience. I can imagine the impact of revelations that had to have occurred during its creation. Is there any way you can describe the process?

Liliane: The process I?ve been through since writing The Mastery Club has been quite transformational. I went from a place where my family was in breakdown and I had effectively given up on my dreams as a writer to having a renewed and much stronger family and realizing some of my dearest dreams.

Sheryl: And then, of course, you followed with The Hidden Order. How did that compare?

Liliane: The journey I have been on since I first began jotting ideas for The Hidden Order has been extraordinary ? confronting ? intense ? unsettling, and it has honestly transformed my life ? again! But before I share that, I?d like to go back in time so you can understand why and how I embarked on this journey in the first place.? ?

I have always loved writing stories ? to me, writing is one of the most god-like actions a person can do: with the stroke of a pen ? in the olden days; tapping of keys today ? one can ?create a human being? and even a whole world. I utterly love that creative process.
When I was eleven I was invited to join a Creative Writing Club, and an innocent exercise to write a list of words we liked and a list of words we didn?t like, planted a seed in my mind that words have energy; they affect our feelings and state of mind.

Sheryl: Your childhood was very unusual, wasn?t it? Growing up as a child of a survivor of Jewish persecution in World War II Poland must have given you a unique perspective on life, and an appreciation for things often taken for granted.

Liliane: Yes, as a teenager, I began reading the books on my mother?s bookshelf, books with titles like The Power of Your Subconscious Mind and Life & Teachings of the Masters of the Far East ? and I was captivated by what I read in those books.

My mother had had a very traumatic childhood as a Jew in WWII in Poland, and as an adult she began to accumulate this very interesting library because she had questions about life ? Why are we here? How can people be so cruel to each other? How can one develop an inner authority rather than being subject to the whims of others?

Speak It and It Shall Happen ? Well, not quite.

Her books included true stories about people who were experiencing health or relationship or financial challenges who declared a certain kind of statement either aloud or silently or in writing, and thus transformed their lives. I was hooked. I became fascinated that we can use language to create imaginary worlds for the purpose of entertainment, and we can also use language to deliberately create our world, the world we are living in.

I began to declare some of those statements or affirmations myself, and then I would look around eagerly for a result ? for my world to change, but, mostly, nothing happened. So I came to the conclusion that these ideas worked for those people in the books, but not for me. I was longing for mastery but I was increasingly living like a victim, in reaction to everything?..

Until I hit a low point in my life when I felt like a complete failure as a mother, a writer, a wife. Out of desperation I began to work with these ideas more deliberately and more persistently. I told myself I was going to stick with the process of affirmations until I saw a result; I made it a lifestyle commitment to saturate myself with the ideas I wanted to demonstrate ? I declared affirmations while walking the dog, had books in the loo and tapes playing in the car?

Sheryl: Sooooo, what happened? What was the result?

LiIiane: I wrote The Mastery Club around that time ? we teach what we need to learn, right? I was coaching myself. I wanted to be masterful.

Sheryl: Why did Mastery appeal to you?

Liliane: Because I wanted to win immunity from difficulty. The war stories I?d grown up with had alarmed me. I was troubled by what I observed around me. I wanted world peace and for everyone to be happy and safe. I wanted to get rid of my unpleasant traits and only be good. Who can relate?

Sheryl: It was about this time that you began reading John Demartini, wasn?t it?

Liliane: In the process of writing The Mastery Club, I discovered the work of Dr. John Demartini, and my whole premise for life began to wobble. My book began to shift direction slightly in response to what I was reading and experiencing of his material.

Mastery is a Process

But I?m getting ahead of myself. When I began to apply the principles I had read about in my mother?s books with real commitment, I began to experience magic in my life. Slowly, situations that had appeared to be stuck were transformed, first on the home front, and then in my writing. Derek and I self-published The Mastery Club and the response I received was so enthusiastic that I was certain it would be an international bestseller in no time at all. I would be rich and famous and life would hum along!

The response to the book definitely began to support my changing sense of identity from failure to success, and some magic really did eventuate in my life, for example, being given a free trip to Paraguay and a free cruise as a speaker? But I also found myself facing even bigger challenges and I often felt overwhelmed.

Sheryl: What was so daunting? Writing a book is daunting enough; what other stressors did you experience?

Liliane: You see, today?s self-publishing author must wear a great many hats. Not only are we the creative writer, but also the marketer ? both online and offline, the publicist, the sales team, the administrator, the speaker, the product development department, etc. My life, over the last few years, has been a process of running from one boiling pot to the next, stirring this, turning that, doing my best to cover all of these areas as professionally as I could but making it up as I went along because I was learning as I was going. And, needless to say, there were delays and rejections and poor decisions.

So a bit of overwhelm? The international success remained ?in potential?. In the wake of publishing a book called ?The Mastery Club?, I was forced to face my fears that I would be perceived as a ?failed master?; that I wasn?t capable of demonstrating what I was teaching, of walking my talk. I began to back-peddle; I wanted to very clearly delineate the difference: I?m a WRITER, not a Master. I write about this stuff because I?m a good communicator ? but don?t expect me to demonstrate it.

Sheryl: What kept you going?

Liliane: The old childhood urge to be a master wouldn?t let go. It?s as Caroline Myss says, ?Once we are calibrated to a certain idea, we can?t go back.? We resonate at a new level of consciousness and we see everything through that lens. I couldn?t go back and I had to unpack this idea of mastery much more thoroughly, and this process took me even more deeply into Dr. Demartini?s work.

Sheryl: We?ll have a look into what I found next week.? Be sure and come back.

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