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Today Is Your Treat

This is another treat for you.
I am very privileged and honored to have Dr. Lorraine Cohen to participate in this interview.

I met Dr. Lorraine while participating in Blog carnivals articles submission. Though with all her credentials, qualifications and rich experiences as a personal and business coach, she is humble, unassuming and friendly.
I have enjoyed listening to many of her talk shows and
love her wisdom, knowledge and most of all her wittiness and
great sense of humor.
So obviously I became her fan.

You have my high respect for you, Dr.Lorraine.

Sincerely
Gamy Rachel

Interview with Dr.Lorraine Cohen
by Gamy Rachel of Mind Think Success.com
Copyright © Gamy Rachel All Rights Reserved
This interview may not be copied.

12th November 2007


Interview with Dr. Lorraine Cohen, President of PowerFull Living
Personal, Spiritual and Business Coach, Speaker, Radio Show Host

Dr. Lorraine Cohen, President of Powerfull Living, brings
more than 20 years of experience in personal and
business coaching, psychological counseling, and sales
to thousands of spiritually-minded business owners,
entrepreneurs, and leaders from a wide range of industries.

Recognized as a cutting-edge expert in her field, Dr. Lorraine
coaches people to have greater business success and
personal happiness in their life.
An expert in breaking through fear and removing
barriers to success, she shows people how to get unstuck;
to break through the confusion and roadblocks so that
they move forward in all areas of their life.

Lorraine is an ordained spiritual minister, published writer, speaker and broadcaster, hosting her own weekly radio internet show:
Powerfull Living Radio- compelling conversations
on business, personal, and spiritual topics.

1. Question:
Dr. Lorraine, you have been giving advice on transforming fear to freedom to thousands of clients over the past 20 years --can you please define fear for us?

Ans: Fear is an emotion we experience as energy in response to an internal belief or an external event.
Fear can be real or imagined. Feelings aren’t good or bad, they are just that – feelings.
It is the interpretation we place on emotions and how we use them to either participate in life or sit on the sidelines.

For example – if I am in danger and facing a real threat, a fear response would be valid.
If I am sitting in my living room contemplating an action I want to take and feeling fear, my reaction is self created based on my beliefs and my internal self-talk
(conversation I have inside my head).
The emotion of fear can be a motivator or it can hold us hostage in our lives.

I believe we are here to be happy and prosperous. Sometimes we need help in order to free ourselves from the barriers we create. The key is knowing when help is needed and getting it.

2. Question:
If a person has been always fearful, and fear has control over the person’s emotion, feelings and all, will the person be able to
get over it and move on in life if it not dealt with
within the root cause.

Ans: Yes. First I want to say that most people approach fear as a negative; something to be gotten over and rid of.

Fear has a positive value in keeping us out of harm’s way.
It is when fear has control over our life (as you describe)
there is a problem. The key to decrease and transform the power of fear is through replacing unhealthy and imagined beliefs while deepening the connection
with Source (Higher Power, God, Buddha….)

The process of healing and release is a shift experienced internally through our emotions.
Many beliefs that drive fear are generated through the subconscious while others are more obvious to recognize.
To be successful at transforming fear, you cannot simply
try to “think yourself out of feeling fear” and expect to
create a permanent shift. That's not real.

I’ve always been a person who feels the fear and takes
action anyway. About 10 years ago I found my world
turned upside down and my fear turned to terror.
That was one of the most painful and empowering
periods of my life. Fear pushed me to dig deeper inside
of myself to face things I had never seen or felt before.

My fear also strengthened my relationship with God
because in those moments of intense pain, my relationship
with God deepened as I asked for and received help.

Looking backwards I know that experience was crucial to
my being able to help people overcome their fears today.
I am grateful and humbled by the process of transforming my
own fear into POWER. I can still get caught up in fear.
The main difference is that I unhook from the grip of fear quickly
so that I am feeling vital and alive.

3. Question:
How do you relate fear with the law of attraction working?

Ans: The Law of Attraction states that whatever we put our attention on is what we will attract,wanted or unwanted.
Therefore if our attention is fear-based, what we attract will reflect whatever we fear.
If we are afraid of not having enough money, we will
create poverty. If we fear being alone, we might attract
people who always leave us.

4. Question:
Can you tell us the tools you use for meditation in helping your sub-conscious mind? so that you can attract good things, good energy, events and people into your life?

Ans: I keep it simple. From the info taken from Psych-K, the subconscious mind is described as:

• Habitual

~ Monitors Operation of the Body…
e.g. Motor Functions, Heart Rate, Digestion, etc.

~Thinks Literally

• Timeless

~Present Time Only • Expanded Processing Capacity

~Long Term Memory–(past experiences, attitudes, values & beliefs)

~Thousands of Events at a Time

~Averages 4 Billion Bits of Information/Second

I like working with guided mediations like ones from
Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra and others.

I also like meditating with Immrama.com CD’s using
alpha-theta technology.
That allows me to step out of the thinking state and put my
attention on connecting with the Divine,asking a question,
or focusing on a desire I wish to attract.
I also include an evening practice of writing two pages
of things I’m grateful for.

I have found that by beginning my day with
a powerfull intention such as:
How can I be of service today?
And ending with gratitude frames my day in attracting good
things into my life.I have found I am experiencing more
happiness and less negative reaction to life experiences.

5. Question:
Can you share an incident or incidences you have encountered
when you feed your sub-conscious mind well and thereby
have the law of attraction working on your behalf?

Ans: I would refer to my answer of using intention to be
of service and feeling grateful for what show up regardless
of whether I like it or not.
When you let go of struggling against the present moment and
experience, you are feeding yourself acceptance and resilience
so that you can flow with life.

Remember the subconscious is like a computer running
a program on your hard drive.
If you wish to attract good things into your life, create a
new program and put your attention on running that
program everyday.

Last week I launched my Transform Your Fear Audio Program
with 23 joint venture partners to help promote it.
I had expectations of how many sales I wanted to make.
It became apparent, my expectations were too high.
That might have been an opportunity for my subconscious and self-talk to fill me with anger and disappointment if I hadn’t been able to shift into gratitude.

I was quickly able to widen my lens of perception and recognize
many gifts that were coming from my launch that I might have
missed if I only focused on the sales.
I saw a wave of energy beginning to gather momentum that will continue to flow over a longer period than a one-day event.
I wrote about that in my blog Here

Bottom line: The more aware you are of how you are feeling
the more powerfull you can be in creating what you want to attract.
To become aware you must awaken to who you are as
both a spiritual and human being.

6. Question:
Can you share one tip for handling fear, and also to attract good energy, things into our lives?

Ans: Gratitude is a powerfull fear-buster. Put your attention
of all the people, things, gifts you have in your life when
fear comes up.

When you are feeling appreciation, you attract
good things to you. I love the book by Abraham-Hicks,
Ask and It Is Given. I recommend it to my clients to help them
work with their emotions and the Law of Attraction.
Of course I recommend my own products too!

Thank you Dr. Lorraine, it's been my pleasure and privilege to have this interview with you. It’s my honored to know you too.

To learn more about Dr. Lorraine Cohen visit:
website: http://www.powerfull-living.biz
Dr. Lorraine Cohen’s blog: http://www.powerfull-living.biz/blog

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My Best To You &
Your Best Is Beyond Your Fear

Gamy Rachel

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