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New Book Teaches Listening to Our Inner Guidance

Book summary by Tyler R. Tichelaar, editor, Superior Book Productions.

Conrad Toner’s new book Tapping into the Power remained open to learning, and soon after, he discovered the
Within: Your Journey to Empowered Success starts with a Law of Attraction.
powerful opening sentence: “We all know better than to One of the book’s most powerful moments for me was
spend our time living in fear, but too many of us do exactly when the National Farmers Union and Canadian Universities
that every single day as if there were no Overseas (CUSO) asked him to go to
alternative.” Toner then goes on to state, Nicaragua to help the farmers there. On that
“None of us should be living in pain. We trip, he met a young man who had lost both
were not put on this earth to suffer.” Toner his legs during a civil war. Toner was amazed
knows it’s time to change that, and that that the young man was still alive. The man
change can happen by changing our thoughts explained that he had survived not because
first. of the minimal medical care he had received
Toner compares changing our thoughts but because he believed he still had a purpose
to learning to ride a bicycle. He recalls that in life. His goal was “to free my children’s
no matter how many times he fell off his bike children” (to free future generations of
when he first learned to ride, he was Nicaraguans). And to accomplish that, given
determined to get back on and try again. By the meager resources available, he, in effect,
staying focused on the process, he achieved had to heal himself. Toner was incredibly
the balance and success needed. The same is moved by this man’s words, which forever
true with our thoughts. If we make a made him understand the importance of
conscious effort to change them, and we knowing your purpose in life.
persevere and stay focused, despite setbacks, Ultimately, Toner reveals that we are
in time we will succeed, and that change will responsible for our own happiness. He cites
open us up to new possibilities. many famous thinkers from Norman Vincent Peale to
Toner has had a successful career as a life coach who Abraham-Hicks and also his own mother, who have all said
helped others achieve clarity and joy, but his life started out that no one can make us happy except ourselves. To become
very differently. He was raised on a farm in Grand Falls, NB, happy, we have to develop new thought patterns. Toner offers
and as a young man, he accompanied his brother on a several practical exercises for doing this, such as recognizing
missionary trip to South America. Toner’s eyes were opened the abundance around us, making lists of what makes us
to what life was like in Third World countries. When he happy, and keeping a list of our accomplishments to give us
returned home, he took over the family farm, believing a lift when needed. Each chapter also ends with reflection
growing food was important since there was so much poverty questions to help us think further on and apply what we have
and hunger in the world. learned in the chapters.
Toner was a farmer for more than thirty years before he Tapping Into the Power Within is full of inspiring stories,
retired and went back to university. That was when he truly wise advice, and practical tools so you can experience daily
had his awakening. He studied leadership and philosophy, joy and peace and spread it to the world.
and he didn’t quit studying even after he graduated. He For more info visit www.conradtonerauthor.com

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