Unveiling: A Guide-Book for Your "Life Make-Over"

Unveiling: The Inner Journey: Transforming Your Life, From the Inside Out!

Dear Ones --

Yesterday, I shared that our first official Unveiling "layout" maxed out at over a whopping 600-plus pages!

Too much.

So Travis Craine, my CreateSpace Publishing Consultant, and I had a little chat. And we decided to reduce the font size (just a smidge), reduce the between-line spacing (just a smidge), and increase the actual trim size (the physical book dimensions, again, by just smidge).

The result? Unveiling will be easier to carry, and to hold in your lap.

At the same time, though, I am enormously grateful of this time as a full-book editing moment. I'm reading Unveiling through - from the Dedication and the Acknowledgements to the very last reference - yet once again.

Usually, by this time, authors have grown very tired of reading their own words. But last night, while editing Chapter 10, on "Shifting State," something inside myself was nodding agreement.

Because it's been a few weeks since I first uploaded the manuscript, Unveiling was coming through in a new and fresh way. Reading it right now, I'm still in "edit" mode - still looking for those tiny little glitches, or those miniscule changes in wording that will make it "flow" a little better.

But as I read and edited in the wee hours of the morning, something else started to "kick in."

Sixteen years ago, I realized that if I really wanted to read the kind of life-guide that I really wanted to read (yes, this sounds convoluted, I know you'll understand), then I would have to write the book myself. And now, Unveiling is the result.

Now that I've "written the book," I can settle down and read it. And I can actually do the exercises, or Personal Pathworking steps, at the end of each chapter.

Unveiling is really a personal guide-book, meant to help each of us bring about the "life transformation" that many of us desire.

We are always interestd in make-overs, ranging from a short article in one of our favorite magazines, to the subject of a full-fledged "reality TV" show. We like making over everything from our wardrobes, to our kitchens, to ourselves.

In particular, we are interested - at certain times in our lives - in "making over" ourselves.

But since this is a psychological, or internal process, we know that it is more than just throwing out the old appliances (or wardrobe), and ordering in the new. The "cleaning out" stage is HUGE, because it's various beliefs about ourselves, and habits (both thought-habits and lifestyle-habits) that we need to reassess and sometimes toss.

For an internal "make-over," we need to go through our own lives.

This is where having a guidebook comes in handy.

On the TV shows, and even in the magazines, the person never does it all by herself. Instead, she has a team of experts coaching her for every step. These people are "facilitators." They are each experts in a very specific and useful area.

Also, each "make-over" has a plan. The interior designer sits down and does a sketch, and goes over it with the prospective client. The wardrobe or lifestyle coach presents a "vignette" or a small "showcase collection" of what the new look will be like. They make their plan, and THEN, with consensus from their client, everyone goes into action!

Unveiling is designed to similarly bring a team of experts into our own lives.

The people that I write about in Unveiling are those who have helped me in my own journey. The stories that I write about them (with their review and consent) are the "pivotal moments" - those where I had some sort of "aha!" realization. Those are moments that changed my life forever, in very specific and useful ways.

If it took me sizteen years to write this book (and it did; my first drafts are from 1996), it was because it took me sixteen years - every single one of them - to get the "life lessons" and the "pivot points" that I share with you in Unveiling. Indirectly, these people now become your teachers. And if you want to, you can study with them directly - they are all still very much alive, well, and professionally active - they run schools or studios, hold regular workshops, and are very accessible. They have websites, and when my Unveiling website goes up, I'll link to each of them directly.

There was "theoretical" study as well; I've read a great number of books and research articles as part of gaining the requisite background. I cite them in the endnotes. And once the Unveiling website is up, I'll link directly to the books in their Amazon pages, and to the articles whenever they are published online. These books became my another group of my teachers and guides, and you'll be able to access these as well.

But also (and this is the most important thing), I had to put all of what I was learning into order, and devise a set of "steps" that a person could undertake, in simple and successive order, in order to create her own, unique-unto-herself, personal unveiling.

Reading and editing my way through Chapter 10: "Shifting State" this morning around 3AM, my thought was, "Yes! I want to do these steps myself!" (That was even though I had done them, in one sense or another, over the years.)

So it will be a few more weeks until Unveiling is fully under way to you. You should be able to have your own copy in time for that very precious little "downtime" that we all get, post-Christmas, and post-New Year's parties. That time in late January and early February where we clean out our files, our closets, and our lives.

I'll be doing the Unveiling Pathworking steps then, myself.

May I invite you to join me?

Yours in dance - Alay'nya

P.S. - While reducing the "physical weight" of Unveiling so that it takes fewer pages, I'm also increasing its weight in another dimension -- the knowledge that is being embedded within its pages. I've found some valuable new books and references that I'm adding in. Their worth is significant. This feels as though I'm broadening the "circle of friendship" that I'm introducing to you via Unveiling; it is like adding in one or two more "special experts" to the "on-call life makeover team" that Unveiling presents to you. I am so excited about this! This is actually worth the delay in getting the book to you - ALL of our lives are benefitting!