Conscious Cornflakes

Throw back the covers. Raise the blinds. Your purpose is waiting.

Find it with a heaping helping of Conscious Cornflakes, a 4-week Purposeful Practice that helps you emerge from the deep sleep that blankets your life's promise. Discover the source of your vague dissatisfaction, lack of direction, waning energy -- that gnawing feeling of "is this all there is?". Get ready to see things from a fresh, vital perspective that undoes your assumptions and opens up exciting possibilities for the kind of life you truly want.

You're hungry for Conscious Cornflakes if you've been feeling…

• Alienated from the dominant culture -- annoyed by the political climate and government policies, turned off by celebrity worship and "infotainment" news, weary of commercial excess and endless consumption. And yet you're still participating.

• Fearful; anxious about "what might happen"

• Dissatisfied, in transition -- maybe you're leaving Corporate America, ending a marriage or navigating other changes in your personal life. You say that you want to do "something more meaningful" … but now what?

• Adrift, too numb or uncertain to move forward

• Dependent on something distracting: talking on the phone, TV, video games, Internet, alcohol, shopping -- that thing you do to turn off and tune out.

The fact is, your habits, patterns and plans are directed largely by cultural messages you stopped noticing long ago. You absorb them unconsciously and construct your work and personal life around them, never questioning whether they actually make sense for you or anyone else. The result is a life that doesn't match your heart's desires; yet, because society affirms your choices -- marriage, corporate promotions, a plasma TV or bigger car -- you don't understand why happiness eludes you.

You may have tried to overcome these feelings by reading self-help books, attending motivational seminars, or exploring sustainable living. But theory often doesn't stick. Conscious Cornflakes starts with practical, small steps and your real life. It recognizes that a more mindful, sustainable, compassionate life can't take shape without first unplugging from the demands and distractions that consume your days. Conscious Cornflakes gives you real-world tools for tuning out the hypnotic buzz and tuning into your life's more authentic promise.

Each daily serving uses powerful actions, food for thought, dynamic links, and habit-challengers to help you reclaim your heart and mind from society's collective deep sleep. Conscious Cornflakes is...

• Powerful -- You'll feel more alive, alert, awake at the wheel. You'll be able to direct your compassionate energies where they matter most, and make deliberate choices about your daily life.

• Fun -- You'll be given new, creative ways to stretch your mindfulness muscles.

• Flexible -- You can dig into your Cornflakes every day, or save them to do at a time you set aside specifically for Purposeful Practice.

Each weekday for 4 weeks, you'll receive an email with:

• A Cold Shower: stimulating questions to help you clear away the mental cobwebs

• Cornflakes: simple, powerful actions to help you sharpen your awareness

• A Caffeine Hit: a link to a website that will inspire, motivate, or show you an alternative reality

• Fresh Air: a challenge to go without a specific "drug" or unconscious behavior for a week -- or as long as you can

Each week you'll unearth the anesthetic that a particular source is pumping into your system and discover the antidotes that can revive your spirit:

Week 1: Uncover the hypnotic power of Media

Week 2: Face down the influence of Business

Week 3: Look Government squarely in the eye

Week 4: Expose the rote programming of Culture

You and your fellow Cornflakes compatriots also will be invited to take part in a special TeleConnection with author/instructor Karen Jones -- an eye-opening discussion, via conference call, that will wake up whatever might still be asleep in you.

Conscious Cornflakes helps you recognize the messages that the media, business, government and other institutions have been feeding you in a steady diet, so relentlessly and convincingly, your life is bloated with conflicting practices, your discernment is flabby from disuse, and your spirit has crawled under the covers for a long winter's nap. Wake it up. Inhale the spiritual smelling salts. Face down the cultural hypnotists and start your story from scratch. It's a brand new day.

Visit Blogging on Purpose for eCourse dates.

Fee: $85