Barbara Rose
One day I googled up "Why do some people constantly tell others what to do?" and the first link I came across was this fabulous article by Barbara on how to handle such people in your life.
Barbara is a spiritual healer who has written over 20 inspirational books . She has dedicated her life to "Uplifting Humanity" . Her life story is itself an example how one can face adversities and overcome them and make a name for one self. I love what she is doing "touching lives and healing".
Here is her life story as I read it in her web site
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About Barbara
Quick Bio
Dr. Barbara Rose is the bestselling author of twenty eight books, including the Amazon bestsellers Stop Being the String Along, Individual Power, If God Hears Me, I Want an Answer! and Know Yourself. She is a world renowned Higher Consciousness Awakening Life Transformation Specialist and spiritual teacher. Her personal growth and transformation shared with millions of people from every part of the world has endeared her to the masses as a pure, loving and caring soul who shares by living example. Her ability to take the most difficult personal topics and bring through the solutions for herself and all has made her one of today’s most loved and respected spiritual teachers. Dr. Rose is the founder of International Institute of Higher Self Communication merged with Global Higher Consciousness Awakening Institute. She shares with all of humanity how to achieve the highest level of consciousness awakening: the nondenominational process of receiving answers from God. Her subscribers span 191 countries and her highly sought after work is continuously published and shared uplifting the mass consciousness across the globe. Her official website is BornToInspire.com.
“If you offered to pay me two hundred million dollars per week to give up all I am doing I would simply tell you to keep your money. Nothing can buy the joy of making the most positive difference for humanity, nothing.”
Long Bio
Dr. Barbara Rose was born and raised in Bayside, New York. Since early childhood she was drawn to highly spiritual books. She lived in Lugano, Switzerland, and traveled most of the world while attending Franklin College. She was an honor student at the American University in Washington D.C. School of International Service. She then became an entrepreneur in the publishing industry as President of The Pennsylvania Yellow Pages. While carrying her first child, she sold her company for 1.6 million dollars to be a stay-at-home mom. In 1991 she divorced her husband while her two children were still in diapers.
As a stay-at-home single mom, Barbara pursued a career in film and television acting. She became a member of Screen Actors Guild (SAG), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), while appearing in numerous CBS prime time television Sit-Com’s, feature films, and plays at Playhouse West. Barbara created the first Mentor/Mentee Mixer, and was Director of Submissions for the PSA (Public Service Announcement Committee) while on the Board of Directors with Women in Film in Los Angeles. She was also a Wish Grantor for The Starlight Foundation in Los Angeles, granting a final wish for a girl who later died of Leukemia.
While living in Los Angeles, Barbara also became more deeply drawn to spiritual study. She studied under Aeton, at the Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles, and read between five to six books per week covering a wide spectrum of spiritual paths.
In 1994 Barbara consulted with a highly respected psychic medium, Bill Burns, who told her that she would be bringing through information from her higher self (God), via her writings and public speaking engagements, to raise the spiritual consciousness of people on Earth. At that time, Barbara did not know what a “higher self” was, and although she believed in God, she could not fathom that she would receive direct communication. She simply could not relate to what she was told. Barbara began to “bring through” information from God in 1994 in her writings, and in speech, bringing through information to friends, although she had no intention at that time to make that her life’s work.
In 1994 Barbara consulted with a highly respected psychic medium, Bill Burns, who told her that she would be bringing through information from her higher self (God), via her writings and public speaking engagements, to raise the spiritual consciousness of people on Earth. At that time, Barbara did not know what a “higher self” was, and although she believed in God, she could not fathom that she would receive direct communication. She simply could not relate to what she was told. Barbara began to “bring through” information from God in 1994 in her writings, and in speech, bringing through information to friends, although she had no intention at that time to make that her life’s work.
In 1996, Barbara was hit with a brutal and unwarranted child custody litigation suit after seeking the original amount of child support stipulated in her divorce papers. Without the funds for proper legal representation, Barbara unjustly lost primary custody of her two small children, she was given visitation rights. She felt as if she had lost her soul, and nearly took her own life over the injustice.
During Barbara’s darkest moments, while trying to understand “why” this injustice happened to her, she decided to “test” her abilities to receive Divine information by writing letters to God asking for answers. She received volumes of information, answers, and was told she would do much to raise the spiritual consciousness of people on Earth.
Barbara’s entire life and reality fell apart after losing everything on the outside. She felt a deep inner shift from ego into Soul. Determined to expose injustice within society Barbara decided to forgo a career as an actress. She felt a deep calling in her soul to be of service and help humanity rise from within.
In 1998 Barbara was determined to rise from her devastation and help parents who were being railroaded in unwarranted child custody cases. She founded and was Chair of the Child Custody Committee with National Organization for Women. As a result of national meetings, Barbara was receiving calls every day from other mothers who went through the same scenario as Barbara did. Barbara was working with legislation drafting bills and founded American People for Family Justice Child Legislation. She counseled hundreds of parents from all over the United States via telephone completely free of charge. 99% were mothers. She was helping them when they had nowhere else to turn. Fueled with determination to make a difference, Barbara went back to college to become a Broadcast Journalist. She wanted to have a voice to help inspire all people who were downtrodden and railroaded. While an Honor Student at Florida International University School of Journalism and Mass Communication her email address was BornToInspire(at)hotmail.com not knowing at the time that her life’s work and direction was about to bloom into an entirely new area to make a difference for humanity.
In 1998 she became a legally ordained Minister with Universal Life Church, feeling a deep spiritual calling within, while she then continued her education and began her formal studies in Metaphysics/Higher Consciousness towards her BS, MS and PhD in March 1998 with American Institute of Holistic Theology.
In 1999 she was also an honor student at Florida Atlantic University with a double major in Political Science specializing in Middle East Studies, and Mass Communication. It was in the summer of 2000 that Barbara went to Israel and interviewed Christian refugees that fled from genocide and persecution in Southern Lebanon. Barbara brought her interviews and accounts against human rights to CNN.
Barbara wanted to further expose injustice for the voiceless masses that were railroaded. She was then accepted to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University. With a 3.8 GPA, Barbara was inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication. She was approved to begin an internship with CNN. She worked behind the scenes volunteering her time with CNN Miami Bureau during the 2000 Presidential election re-count debacle. She brought breaking news which was exposed on air by Greta Van Susteren. During this time, Barbara learned that she could not voice her opinion as a broadcast journalist; she could only report the news, period. AOL then acquired CNN and temporarily suspended the internship program in all bureaus to re-structure the news organization.
By this time, Barbara had been doing writings beginning with the words: “Dear God” every single day for over two years. She received advance written information which all came to pass. Barbara awoke one morning with a pinched-nerve in her neck, unable to move. She did a writing, and was told: “It was time” to write her first book: Individual Power. Barbara was then guided to write her next book: If God Was Like Man.
Barbara was faced with a critical life changing decision: to either be a broadcast journalist, or to follow the truth in her heart and speak out to help humanity. Barbara was petrified to expose that she received information from God in her writings. She went through a deep transformation to follow the truth in her heart, and realized that she did not have to be a broadcast journalist to make a difference for humanity. Barbara discovered her true passion – to Inspire people.
In 2001 she launched her Website BornToInspire.com and decided to devote the remainder of her life’s work to inspiring people and uplifting humanity via her books, public speaking engagements, spiritual intensives, articles and seminars. She has thousands of subscribers spanning 191 countries.
Barbara founded International Institute of Higher Self Communication. A global, non-denominational spiritual service helping people across the globe dedicated to uplifting the spiritual consciousness of humanity. Barbara’s commitment to teaching people how to receive answers directly from God (as you personally understand Him/her to be) to authentically empower humanity is having a vastly positive rippling effect globally.
She founded – Higher Self Communication Yahoo Group as a free spiritual service to bring free support to people around the world. Suicides of several people were prevented as a result of this pure, loving and extremely positive group.
People’s positive experiences as a result of this work fuels Barbara’s passion and commitment to making this available to the masses around the world.
People’s positive experiences as a result of this work fuels Barbara’s passion and commitment to making this available to the masses around the world.
Barbara is the founder of Global Higher Consciousness Awakening Institute that she merged with International Institute of Higher Self Communication.
In April 2005, Barbara released Stop Being the String Along: A Relationship Guide to Being THE ONE in June 2005; Barbara’s groundbreaking relationship became an Amazon # 1 Relationship Bestseller.
Barbara’s articles and book excerpts are widely published internationally uplifting people’s lives in the areas of personal and life transformation, relationships, and spiritual awakening.
Barbara’s articles and book excerpts are widely published internationally uplifting people’s lives in the areas of personal and life transformation, relationships, and spiritual awakening.
Barbara has a wide and well rounded traditional educational background. However, she felt the incorporation of Higher Self Communication, the study and integration of humanity’s God-Nature into people’s personal transformation and spiritual evolution was missing. On September 30, 2005 she completed her BS, MS, and PhD in Higher Consciousness – Metaphysics from American Institute of Holistic Theology, and received her Doctorate degree. Barbara created the term six-senseitis – where people are under-functioning using just their five senses. This is listed in Merriam Webster’s On Line Dictionary.
On January 10, 2006, Barbara released her book Know Yourself: A Woman’s Guide to Wholeness, Radiance & Supreme Confidence On February 9, 2006 it became an Amazon # 1 personal transformation bestseller.
On August 1, 2006 she released If God Hears Me, I Want an Answer! This became an Amazon Religion & Spirituality Bestseller. Her commitment to authentically empower the masses by receiving direct answers from God (as you personally understand Him/her to be) based on the countless lives that have been positively transformed as a result of her work in this area, is her heartfelt mission to continue to spread this information globally.
On August 1, 2006 she released If God Hears Me, I Want an Answer! This became an Amazon Religion & Spirituality Bestseller. Her commitment to authentically empower the masses by receiving direct answers from God (as you personally understand Him/her to be) based on the countless lives that have been positively transformed as a result of her work in this area, is her heartfelt mission to continue to spread this information globally.
Dr. Barbara Rose follows the pure guidance from God and teaches humanity globally how to receive the same guidance, answers, clarification and direction in order to be authentically empowered as well as to consciously become one with God, and live life as their pure God-Self for each moment that a person is alive.
Barbara’s devotion to helping the masses authentically and purely empower themselves resulted in her decision to make her bestselling book If God Hears Me, I Want an Answer! available completely FREE of charge in e-book format. This book has been downloaded by tens of thousands of people in 191 countries. After several thousand downloads within the first three days, The Rose Group stopped tracking downloads due to server overload. Barbara does all she can to be of the most positive service to humanity.
She is the bestselling author of twenty eight books including If God Hears Me, I Want an Answer!, Stop Being the String Along: A Relationship Guide to Being THE ONE, Individual Power, and Know Yourself.
She is one of today’s most loved and respected spiritual teachers, and a world renowned Higher Consciousness Awakening Life Transformation Specialist.
Her highly acclaimed work is widely sought after and published internationally transforming the lives of millions across the globe.
Barbara lives her life with the vow to do only that which she would want done to her. She honors all people from all paths and cultures. Her greatest love is making a difference live either via phone or in person speaking events.
Barbara lives her life with the vow to do only that which she would want done to her. She honors all people from all paths and cultures. Her greatest love is making a difference live either via phone or in person speaking events.
People from all backgrounds and walks of life have taken spiritual intensives with Dr. Barbara Rose. She has successfully provided her services to people with such diverse backgrounds as doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, Department Heads of University’s, NASA scientists, bankers, rock stars, entertainment – feature film and television talent, nurses, school teachers, ministers, stay-at-home parents, authors, government, spiritual teachers, Fortune 100 top Executives.
Her intensives have been given to people from many countries around the world besides the United States including; Canada, France, Taiwan, India, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Israel, Lebanon, Switzerland, England, New Zealand, Holland, Hungary, Mexico, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Norway, Ireland, Oman, Scotland, Russian Federation, The Netherlands, and many others.
During her sessions the words and guidance flows through her form God which has led to the most positive and pure transformation for countless people globally.
Bearing special significance in Barbara’s heart when she was inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication, (March 31, 2001) is from a passage from KTA newsletter – Special Issue For New Initiates, copied verbatim, with the core message in red type below. “You have earned your membership by your exemplary scholarship. You are a member of Kappa Tau Alpha for life. No annual dues are expected. In all likelihood, this is the last contact you’ll have with the national office…”
“Exemplars
In your induction into Kappa Tau Alpha you have pledged your allegiance to the highest ideals of journalism and communication.
In your induction into Kappa Tau Alpha you have pledged your allegiance to the highest ideals of journalism and communication.
It was Socrates, the mentor of Plato, who insisted on the marriage of knowledge to ethics. To him we are indebted for this great conception which comes to us as a shining maxim: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”“To my mind the Socratic ideal of ‘the examined life’ synthesizes the cardinal precepts of professional journalistic practice.
You have today pledged your allegiance to worthy utterance- utterance marked by the truthfulness, fairness, and artistry. To honor these standards in your own professional life – whether in reportage or commentary or advertising – will make each of you an exemplar of ‘the examined life.’ The greatest adventure in life is, after all, the adventure of the human intellect and the human spirit. You are to be congratulated on having proved your worthiness in this great adventure. You are, as it were, the crème de la crème of your own student population.
And your induction into Kappa Tau Alpha writes yet another chapter in your instructors’ steadfast faith in the great Socratic ideal of ‘the examined life.’
“We are all of us proud of your individual achievement. You are exemplars of an honorable breed of men and women – a fraternity whose business it is, through the spoken and printed word, to make truth prevail in the world in which it moves and has its being. You are in the larger sense therefore exemplars of the great Socratic ideal of ‘the examined life.’
“We salute you and wish you Godspeed.”
– Ralph T. Eubanks, professor emeritus.
On March 31, 2001 Barbara was inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA) Honor Society
– Ralph T. Eubanks, professor emeritus.
On March 31, 2001 Barbara was inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA) Honor Society
Kappa Tau Alpha is a college honor society that recognizes academic excellence and promotes scholarship in journalism and mass communications. Membership must be earned by excellence in academic work at one of the 91 colleges and universities that have chapters. Selection for membership is a mark of highest distinction and honor.
Membership is by invitation only, and is based solely on character and excellence in academic work. Students with a compiled GPA that ranks them in the top 10 percent of their class are invited, provided they meet other stringent requirements including a minimum GPA of 3.5 and 9 credit hours of upper division work in professional journalism and mass communication courses.
Source: FIU School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
http://jmc.fiu.edu/studentclubs.htm#KTA
Membership is by invitation only, and is based solely on character and excellence in academic work. Students with a compiled GPA that ranks them in the top 10 percent of their class are invited, provided they meet other stringent requirements including a minimum GPA of 3.5 and 9 credit hours of upper division work in professional journalism and mass communication courses.
Source: FIU School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
http://jmc.fiu.edu/studentclubs.htm#KTA
Barbara launched Wholesale for Humanity pricing her books at over 45% off list price.
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Here is that article from her web site
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How to Handle People Who Tell You What You “Should” Be Doing
Posted on December 5, 2010
Exclusive Excerpt – The Ultimate Guide to Self LoveBy Barbara Rose, PhDThe Critics Who Tell You What You “Should” Be Doing
Perhaps there are people in your life who don’t truly know how to be supportive of you, accept you unconditionally, and show kindness to you. Perhaps, just as in my life years ago, there are people in your life who seem very adept at telling you what you “should” be doing. Do you know what? They are entitled to their views and opinions, and those views and opinions have absolutely nothing to do with you.
I have traveled this path in my own life. My brother, whom I do love very much, called me “a little left of center.” Okay, he’s entitled to his views; and I do not have to try to change them or prove anything to him. Additionally, my mother, whom I also love very much, told me repeatedly to “get a real job” and “work for a corporation” after my first two books were published and I had already worked with many people to help them transform their lives. This was prior to my beloved Mother’s recent passing,
Now, this book is about you, not me; but the only way I can help you is by sharing examples from my own life so you know that I have also been there.
Handling Unwanted Advice and Guidance
Now I am going to share with you how to handle the people who perpetually guide you in your life, so you can move forward in the most positive way.
First, stop sharing what you do, your ideas, plans, creative ventures, worries, fears, and business with anyone who is not fully supportive of you. Simply be kind and cordial. When they ask you what’s going on, tell them about domestic chores and that you just changed the linens on your bed. When they ask how you are doing, say, “Good! No complaints.” After a while, no matter what was happening in my life, when all I discussed was domestic chores and had no complaints, they had nothing to tell me in regard to my life direction because I was no longer feeding them personal information.
The only people I discuss my personal life with are people who love me unconditionally and are emotionally supportive of me. If someone is putting you down, telling you what to do, minding your business, or guiding you, if what they say goes against what feels true to you inside, then simply thank them for their opinion and change the topic of conversation.
You do not need anybody’s approval but your own. The people in your life who are quite adept in minding your business most likely are not living their passion, are not filled with self-love, and are not truly working in an area that they would do for free for the rest of their lives if they could. This is where your passion and life purpose come into play, and I will guide you through this as well because it has a lot to do with how you view yourself and how you feel about yourself.
What to Say and When to Say it
If you do not yet have a loving support system of positive people in your life, before you do attract those people, it is imperative that you stick to your truth regarding your personal life and stop discussing it with anyone who is not a positive, life-enhancing support system for you. When people in your life suggest how you “should” live your life, simply say, “Thank you for your opinion.” Period. Please realize that many people may think that what they are telling you is in your best interest. Rather than telling you what to do, I am guiding you now to start looking within your heart and asking yourself what truly matters to you, and what you naturally love to do. I will get into this in more detail in the next chapter.
But here I will repeat what I said before: It is so important that you know you are not in this life to win approval from anyone on earth.
You are in this life to bring out your real qualities, rather than continuing to tell yourself that you are not yet whole and complete, because you really are. You may not feel it yet, but you will. Your life may look different from how you would prefer it to look, but it will be transformed from the inside out.
Your Talents, Gifts and Purpose
It all begins with getting to know and rediscover the best qualities you have within you, along with all of your natural talents and gifts, so you can align them with a purpose that comes from your heart. That purpose is called your life purpose, otherwise known as the reason you came into this life to begin with, and it all comes from the inside out, not the outside in.
Before I bring you to this place deep within your heart, it is important for you to remember that no matter what anybody says to you or about you, the only thing that matters is that you know the real you, and that you live your truth every moment of your life.
Your Experiences and Worth
The complaints you have about yourself definitely do not reflect your pure inner worth, because this worth resides in your heart. The circumstances in your life, my life, everybody’s life on earth are all transient circumstances. This means that they are temporary; not one of them lasts forever. Perhaps just as in my life years ago, the circumstances in your life may be everything other than what you truly desire.
It is important to know that your circumstances never reflect your worth. They are temporary circumstances, period. Your worth cannot be purchased or sold. Your worth has nothing to do with your appearance. Your worth has nothing to do with what you own. Nor does it hinge on a title or a position in society.
No matter what phase of life you are currently experiencing, please know and always remember that your worth is the goodness you were born with in your heart, and from this moment forward, anything that you have been viewing as the basis for your worth can instead be viewed as an experience you would like to have.
Moreover, the critics who may be in your life are actually wonderful catalysts to get you to be true to you. Not to them, to you. Additionally, your truth does not have to be publicly announced. It can remain inside of your heart while you simultaneously move your views of yourself in a more truthful direction consciously, and move your entire life in the direction that reflects the truth you prefer in your deepest heart. It is time that what you feel, think, say, and do all match, in a positive, pure, and life-enhancing manner.
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Handling Unwanted Advice and Guidance
Moreover, the critics who may be in your life are actually wonderful catalysts to get you to be true to you. Not to them, to you. Additionally, your truth does not have to be publicly announced. It can remain inside of your heart while you simultaneously move your views of yourself in a more truthful direction consciously, and move your entire life in the direction that reflects the truth you prefer in your deepest heart. It is time that what you feel, think, say, and do all match, in a positive, pure, and life-enhancing manner.
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