Drunk with Wonder with Steve Ryals

Steve went from being homeless and shooting drugs in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury District at age 17 to graduating from UC Berkley on the Dean’s List six years later.

From 1994-2004, Steve was a free-lance music reviewer for New Age Retailer and then the Sedona Journal of Emergence. He wrote and published over 1,200 reviews, hundreds of which are available online.

What others are saying:

“Drunk with Wonder is a book that can untangle and reweave your life. Make no mistake-if you read this book, you can never go back to being a victim, a loser or a couch potato helplessly watching the movie of your life. You will come into a never-before-imagined power and finally learn what it means to grow up.”

Barbara Gardner, PhD

Author of The Sai Prophecy

Quotes from Drunk with Wonder

“You can’t do life wrong, only with more or less suffering”

“Ecstatic states of bliss are as adrenaline-fueled as the darkest scream of terror”

“All growth requires that you step out of what’s comfortable and try something new”

“Life is the ultimate gift of love”

Drunk with Wonder at a glance:

Who will be the great spiritual teachers and philosophers of the Twenty-First Century? Drunk with Wonder author Steve Ryals suggests they will be us, as one by one, we awaken to God within and practice directing our power of choice for personal and planetary transformation.

Through the ancient system of questions and answers, Ryals shares his dialogues with God, clarifying gems of traditional Eastern, Western and Shamanic thought, plus the latest scientific discoveries about the evolution of human higher consciousness. Unprecedented times of crisis like ours compel us to advance as a species.

Listen and learn…

* Adrenaline: It’s instinctive and addictive, but do we have to be run by it?

* How to release old stories that protected us from our core childhood wounds, but also hold us in fear.

* How can you overcome seeing yourself as a victim and be glad you live in a world of free will?

* How breathing and mindfulness meditation can increase happiness.

* Why sharing our darkest secrets with another loving person can free us and give us the strength to stop defending against our disowned past.

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The Artist Way-Artist Dates

I have been slow moving with the Artist Way but have been working on my writing pages everyday.  Julia challenges us to each morning wake up and write 3 pages in a journal to release all things from our mind that may be blocking our creativity. At first I was like I already write in a  journal everyday so how is this differnent from that?

Well, when I was writing in my journal I didn’t always allow myself to be free and open minded, to release everything that was in my head.  When I started writing the pages everyday and making them at least 3 pages I was able to release things in my mind that I had kept hidden…because I didn’t want to deal with them.

Then I started to read about artist dates-this was a new concept in the form of actually scheduling one day a week a few hours to go out and do something I enjoy. I love to go to bookstores, even if I cannot purchase a book but of course I usually do as I love learning and the feeling of a good book in my hands, the smell of the paper and the atmosphere in the bookstore.  But I started to explore other areas of things I like to do, one of them is going to the museum I love museums but no one every wants to go with me.  I never thought about me going all by myself. So that is my plan to go out one afternoon to our local art museum take my pad of paper and pen and walk around the museum and enjoy the art and let my own creativity flow through.

 By doing the daily writing pages and looking ahead and scheduling a couple hours to do something for me has really opened me up and has helped me with my own creativity.  I have been able to discover things about myself that I thought either I had already dealt with or didn’t realize I needed to deal with.  I have a closer connection with myself….something I have been searching for awhile.

Being a mom, a wife, a daughter in law and a business owner sometimes I lose myself in all that I do each day.  I have rediscovered who I am and I am only just in the beginning of my studies for The Artist’s Way.  I can’t wait to see where else this book takes me in my search for me.

So if you could schedule a date just with yourself once a week for a couple hours what would you do?