Karen Whitelaw-Smith - The butterfly experience: how to transform your life from the inside out

How to transform your life from the inside out

KAREN WHITELAW-SMITH

This edition first published in the UK and USA in 2012 by
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7576 Wells Street, London W1T 3QH

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Illustrations on pages 107 and 109 reproduced by kind permission of Crystalinks.

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This book is dedicated to my loving father, John W. Syme, who died on 25 October 1999 from prostate cancer. A private man, whose hugely positive influence and courage inspired this book.

I would like to thank my mum and late dad for all their help and support throughout my life. Their wisdom guided me toward my path.

I am forever grateful to my loving husband Gordon, my rock, and our children Iain, Jennifer and Calum (my butterflies) who have always given me their continued support.

Finally, my thanks to Anne Buhrmann for her pre-publisher editing, encouragement and friendship.

Authors note

All case histories in this book are true.

I FIRST ENCOUNTERED THE remarkable work of Karen Whitelaw-Smith at a time when my father had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The doctors said the outlook was bleak, but my father, as a doctor himself, saw things quite differently. He worked through his cancer and finally achieved remission, and I witnessed the wonderful part that Karens professional help and healing techniques played in his recovery. She came into our lives like a butterfly, quite magically, and since then we have become close friends.

In 2010, after a particularly difficult time, I called on Karens services myself. The Butterfly Experience proved to be not only a powerful healing tool but also an inspirational aid to success, as Karens meditational expertise and focus exercises helped me in my weekly preparation for the hit TV talent show Popstar to Operastar. I went on to win the show and then to perform in my debut opera, Carmen, at Londons O2 Arena, the youngest-ever performer to take on the lead role of the bullfighter Escamillo in a professional opera, in what became the biggest production of an opera in the UK. As I took to the stage with the Royal Philharmonic and 200 performers, ready for the final curtain call in front of 20,000 people, there was one person in the audience who had helped me immeasurably who wasnt beside me to take a bow Karen. And like a butterfly she flitted silently in the dark beyond the lights I could feel her energy in the crowd. She is a magnetic, magnanimous person and a terrific, trusted professional.

Life is wonderful and so precious! Dont waste it worrying, procrastinating, being unhappy or feeling frustrated. You hold in your hands a powerful tool to help you heal your life, succeed in your career and your relationships and make a change for the better. I have experienced it first hand and know that the Butterfly Experience works and is one that we can all aspire to.

Expect miracles!

Darius Campbell

West End actor and platinum-selling singer-songwriter

T HIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN for everyone who finds it difficult to accept change. I was once that person. After years of developing my own techniques and deciding to change my own life, I want to offer you the chance to change your life for the better. Its the mark of spiritual growth that we want to share what weve learned we want everyone to profit, to share in the yield, to enjoy its fruits. Today I am in control of my life and my destiny. I know where Im going. I understand my purpose. Im here to help others find an easier path through life, to show them how to live a life of abundance.

There is no one this book would not benefit. But Ive written it for YOU. Its intended to be both practical and inspirational. Each section will provide you with triedand-tested techniques for self-relaxation, visualization, goal-setting and pure energy work. Youll benefit most by working through the book from beginning to end, committing to the exercises and practising the techniques as you go. This is not a programme you can cherry-pick your way through. It should be worked through in chronological order. Dont try to skip ahead. Or is that what you think life is all about shortcuts?

I want you to get maximum benefit from the work and I want that benefit to start today! I want you to enjoy your life as much as I enjoy mine. If you are willing to commit to change then youre halfway there. Using my solutions, youll be amazed how quickly life starts to turn around.

In the Butterfly Experience, not everyone makes it through to flight. Some of you will become glorious butterflies. Some will hold on to fear and stay stuck, living in emotional turmoil. This book is not a magic wand. The Butterfly Experience requires discipline. Spiritual discipline. It requires spiritual energy and belief. Its believing that makes magic happen.

You are a seeker. You may already have tried many courses, therapies and training. You may have wasted money and come up empty. My techniques are free. You can do them from home. I even give you a guarantee that they will work. All I ask is that you start to bring some discipline into your life; practise, practise, practise and youll soon experience mind-blowing results.

There is a Butterfly Experience Journal at the back of this book, to enable you to record your personal journey of self discovery. Journaling will help you to keep a record of where you are and how far you have progressed.

Moth or butterfly? Which will you be?

Its time to transform your life from the inside out.

Butterfly Blessings!

Karen Whitelaw-Smith

A LL MY LIFE IVE BEEN drawn to butterflies. I love their variety, their colours, their delicate strength. I call them my Butterfly Blessings. Theres an old saying that butterflies are drawn to healers; theyve sought me out all my life. As I was sitting recently in a packed auditorium, a beautiful monarch butterfly flew onto my shoulder. Inwardly, I asked it to fly to my hand. It stayed for quite some time, allowing me to stroke its wings. When I whispered that it was free to leave it flew off, though with some hesitation. The beautiful creature circled me for some time before disappearing.