skinnymama

Hey thanks for the nice reply. Thanks for the link too! I have just been listening to it with audio only on my i-pod! I love their discussions and the people calling in with very important and interesting questions. I am enjoying it and I have only got through lesson 7! I can't seem to move on until I have listened to each week's lesson a few times! I want to apply it. I have found that the concepts me being my true self so clarifying. I knew I was a spirit before I came here. I understand that I am a spirit having a human experience... what is different for me now is that I can see that my inner inner "I" doesn't want to be a screaming mother. I was in a habbit, I was labeling myself and seeing myself as overwhelmed with 6 kids. Now I am listening to my inner"erds (ha ha that is a funny word.. is it even a word?? ha ha) I am staying present and really listening to my kids more. I am not flying-off-the-handle and snapping at everyone like I was doing. I knew I didn't like who I had become and now I understand why I let myself become such a "witch" and how to stop being that kind of woman. The woman behind all those labels is really a pretty nice person. I am excited to let her be the one that everyone gets to meet again. (sounds like I should change my name to Syble, Syble, Syble) ha ha ha Anyway. Thanks for reading!

Wow I am not used to having that option on a forum. nifty....*heading to check THAT out*

I am new and excited to join this forum. I am a mom of six children. They are my joy, but I manage to find time to play online a little too. Any suggestions on how to have the most fun here? What do YOU like to do at lds.net?

I agree with both of you. I read alot in between the lines of what he has written and more importantly I am becoming a more spiritual person because of it. It is praisworthy and it is helping me to be better. That is the underlying goodness that I feel when I participate in Oprah's online course. It is easy for me to weedthrough the things that don't jive with my core beliefs. There are MANY things that do fit in nicely with our teachings. I believe more important than the conflicts and simularities is it's effect on us and our relationship with our Savior. Mine has improved. My relationship with my children has improved. :) My relationship with my husband has improved :)and I truly trying to live in the present more. I think I lived with the pain of divorce and the hope for a day when everyone in my home is potty trained (past and future) so much that I was missing the beauty of here and now. As you put it... there are many things that Eckart says that rings true with conference talks. Why is it then I can listen to conference and try to do better... but it took Eckart Tolle's book and Oprah's book club class to get me to put these concepts into practice? I am more at peace than I have been in years. I am feeling closer to Father in Heaven and I feel that I am living closer to the spirit. FOR ME... this book is a blessing.