I guess the best things I can share with you are the realizations happening within my own career: first, that my careers are shifting, and second, all you can do is show up. I want us all to look at our beliefs and thoughts about acting and the business (they are two entirely different subjects, you know!). The purpose of this is to bring to our consciousness any conflicting intentions or beliefs we may be holding that are sabotaging our success. You can't JUDGE the "business" or the "jerks who won't let you audition" and expect to successfully get in a room to do that very thing! And you really, really want to want to act because if you are conflicted, you will create sabotage around what you think you want! Some examples of this look like the following: 1. I really want to act BUT I can't make enough to support my family/am too old, fat, or the wrong type. I don't have an agent. I don't know how to get started. It's a horrible time to begin blah, blah, blah. 2. I want to act and make money at it BUT stage acting is the only "real" acting. I can't get to Calif. or NY etc. Creative people should suffer or work a long time to create/earn their careers blah, blah. Okay - you get the picture. Your "Yes" has to be your 100% Yes. If there are conflicts about any subject around acting, it isn't. Even an 80% Yes has to create some sabotage. My challenge is that I am aware that my interests and careers are shifting. My healing work is taking off, and I am terribly passionate about it. My intention is to create more seminars and travel worldwide doing them, while continuing to do the private healing sessions and radio shows. I am spending more time in this arena and loving it. So there is a changing, or co-mingling of careers, happing. If I am aware of this, I can embrace both. If I am not conscious of this, I can inadvertently cancel out the acting, thinking it has to be one or the other. The second thing I want to remind you of is this: Your job is to go in and give the most truthful gift of the material possible. What you receive is the high of that experience. After that, you must let it go. I have been waiting to hear for 1-1/2 weeks about my audition for 24. They loved my read so much that "the producers were actually fighting over me." Some were for, some against. This went on for days. I share this with you so you understand that showing up totally committed in the truthfulness of the scene is ALL WE CAN DO. That's our job. After that, all kinds of circumstances evolve to create the final outcome. When our yes is 100%, and our auditions are 100%, movement will happen. Stay in your knowing of your self love and worth. They'll eventually get it! Blessings, Dee

To My Acting Friends

Wow! What a ride. If it weren't for my healing work, I'd be going bonkers. First, I'm offered the lead in a TV movie of the week but "I have to take scale because they paid the other stars more money." I declined and passed. Then the big movie that was "sure to go" that I had been booked to do for 3 months lost its financing. I'm sharing these personal stories to let you know you're not alone. Even Brad Pitt's movie got cancelled! But! - it directs us to stay focused on what we want: for the economy to be strong so we can celebrate our creativity exponentially! Keep focused on what you want. I have a lot of things in the fire but I want to point out something important for you to know: BE SURE YOU TAKE YOUR ESSENCE AND BEINGNESS INTO YOUR ACTING! The business can shift your focus to it being "a job", and lose the creative essence that is the core of acting. Remember the joy of sharing your heart that made you want to act in the first place. Celebrate yourself and your gift. Ultimately, you stay in joy and create what you want.

Blessings,
Dee

P.S. Check my website for all my upcoming sci-fi appearances! Also, my new book with Jarrad Hewett can be downloaded @ www.dwsactingstudio.com/big_e/
My radio shows are Consciously Creating Your Life every other Thursday @ 7pm PST at www.loaradionetwork.com and Conscious Creation every 4th Monday of the month @ 9am PST at www.healthylife.net Join me for a healing cruise to Baja Nov. 6-9! Go to www.loaradionetwork.com for info

To My Healing Friends

Hold on to your seats. It's a bumpy ride! One that we all hope is nearing the turn in the bend. What is the life lesson that keeps asking you to realize you have to let go/redefine/begin from zero?

According to our work, it is all about trusting the Universe. We are all doing/doing/doing without BEING. And in the final step, if we don't "let go" and trust the Universe to deliver -- IT CAN'T!! It's like saying, "I dare you to find me" when you're hiding in a place where you can't be found. Or, to use an analogy close to my heart, it's like an actor getting opposite directions that they can't possibly carry out. So join me in claiming: I AM ENOUGH. I BELONG. I SURRENDER. I TRUST THE UNIVERSE. I KNOW.

Because it's all done. The work is done. The allowing is here. But we must trust to, well, allow the allowing!

And this can feel like death. Letting go of all our stories, all our blaming, all our victimness, all our limiting definitions of who we have been. So CHOOSE to do that NOW. Once the choice is made, it is miraculous how the fear dissipates. The power of this moment - when you choose consciously to live in DIVINE LOVE - creates every vibration from the past NEW, and creates the present and future according to your direction.

Celebrate yourself and LOVE YOURSELF unconditionally! I do!

Blessings,
Dee

P.S. My new book with Jarrad Hewett can be downloaded @ www.dwsactingstudio.com/big_e/
My radio shows are Consciously Creating Your Life every other Thursday at 7pm PST at www.loaradionetwork.com and Conscious Creation every 4th Monday of the month at 9am PST at www.healthylife.net Join me on a healing cruise Nov. 6-9 to Baja! Go to www.loaradionetwork.com for info

To My Acting Friends

I have to mix it up a little this month. I simply have to bring in some of the healing work to share a huge acting message.

I was scheduled to do a wonderful cameo in the new Harrison Ford/Brendan Fraiser picture. It had a beautiful arc and some nice emotional touches. I was stoked.

The night before I was to leave, I got the rewrites. They had cut the part to two lines. I went in to the reaction from hell, called my reps, and hoped I could save myself the humiliation of 2 lines after 35 years in the business.

I didn't. I decided to go. And here is why. After doing our work with my healing partners, I realized the great lesson that was being given to me: A person is not defined by what they do!
Now I knew this intellectually. I knew this about everyone else. You have heard me speak about how the very existence of my brother and daughter on this plane makes my life worthwhile. But I didn't "know" it about ME in the context of the world: that my essence here is what is valuable, not what I "do."

After we balanced all the energy around that, I realize that I have been holding on to my very big house because it was a definition of me being "ok" and "safe." Do I have to sell? No. Could I sell now and live a fuller life without all the overhead? Yes.

But the basic energy shift is this: when you define your work, instead of thinking it defines you, I guarantee things will begin to open up. Let go of the pressure. LET GO. Be the star before the gig. The Universe must respond. I suggest you read the healing blog also. They coincide.

Blessings, Dee

To My Healing Friends

We are on the fast track and can't get off! And it's all good...

First of all, give up your resistance and expand into the bigger you that you've been asking for. I'm going to share a huge belief we uncovered that most spiritual people share: We have to remain small to SERVE. We have to remain small to BE served by Source.

If you go back to most of our religious training, you will see where those ideas spread like a virus and infected us with the sickness of remaining small, i.e. not manifesting what we have been trying to manifest. After all, if we had everything, our souls might be tainted (as in the filthy rich), and why would we need a connection with Source then, anyway?

The answer is simple: We are Source as the representation of "us." When we disconnect from Source, we disconnect from ourselves. If that is true, then our direction of the I AM has been limited. We have simply disconnected from our own consciousness!

Love yourself enough to be as wealthy, healthy, loved and loving as you can be. BE THE DEMONSTRATION that spiritually powerful people ARE - creators based in love. As Nelson Mandella said..."Who are you to keep yourself small?" Give others the right to expand into greatness by being the example of joy, love and success. I suggest you read the acting blog also. They coincide.

Blessings, Dee

To My Acting Friends

Well, the energy has been very busy out here! While finishing my second book, I participated in four different films and booked a wonderful cameo in the next Harrison Ford/Brendan Frasier film, "Crowley." I have several jobs "pending," but I can't share with you yet, because the paperwork isn't complete. I can say that it looks like I Scream Man will be going this summer - finally! And it also looks like I will move into my first directing assignment which I am extremely excited about. More on that in my next update! The biggest gifts I can give you regarding your own acting are these: Breathe and Know. Before you go into an audition, put your script down, close your eyes, and take some deep breaths. This opens up your channel to higher information, and allows your subconscious to supply the lines. It is a simple, amazing tool that will empower you. The second is to give yourself the direction that "I Know." You are pure energy which Knows everything, and the more information and surety you will receive. When you walk into an audition "Knowing," they can't help but be put at ease, and then they can "Know" with you that you can do the part.