Following is an excerpt from interview with Maisha Hazzard for the documentary Beyond Belief

Well if I give you a little background about my life, I began life in the home of a United Methodist Minister, who was actually a scientist turned minister.  So from the very beginning of my life I lived with parents who consistently talked about science.  My father talked about microbiology all of the time.  He talked all the time about us being light.  That you don’t really see me, that I am light, that everything is energy, and what you see are really light rays coming from my physical body.  He talked about how mass is really light compressed to the point of visibility, or the point of materiality.

So my life began with an awareness that there is something magnificent taking place in each and every one of us, and each one of us is a unique and glorious emanation of the divine.  He also told us that within each and every one of us was an intelligence.  That there was nothing that we could not do.  That it was possible to do everything because at the very center of our being, there is this intelligence that is aware of everything in the universe.  Every idea that has ever come into humanity, come to this planet earth through humanity, has come from this intelligence.

As I went through school I became aware that I could tap into this infinite intelligence and I could consciously actually ask for information and get it.  My education wasn’t really from books, it wasn’t about what teachers were giving to me or imparting to me, but it was what was being drawn forth from within me.

As a teenager when I moved to California I ran into Dr Joseph Murphy, author of Power of Your Subconscious Mind and that meeting with Dr Murphy coupled with what I learned from my parents brought me to a new understanding about what is possible for human beings.

So as I went thru school, I would have a meditation everyday.  Matter of fact, for every hour of studying I did, I had at least 20 minutes that was meditation, and 40 minutes of reading.

And if it was a really tough subject, something that I wasn’t  grasping very quickly then I would reverse it and it would be 40 minutes of meditation and 20 minutes of actually reading the subject matter.

And my meditation focused on the fact that there is an infinite intelligence that knows everything there is to know about everything in the universe, and is available to me.  My mind is the mind of god, that every mind is the mind of god, every individualized aspect of mind is really part of the one mind.   So in my meditation I would say infinite intelligence knows everything there is to know about this subject, and reveals to me everything I need to know, as I need to know it.  And I would add that infinite intelligence even knows what it is the professor is going to ask and the answers they are looking for.

Because anyone who’s gone to school knows, you can study for many hours, you can read everything that you were told to read, and on an exam you may not come up with the exact answer that the professor was looking for because you didn’t quite know what their area of greatest interest was within any particular subject.

So I ask, as I sit, infinite intelligence reveal to me everything I need to know about this subject, everything this professor is going to ask and everything this professor really wants to know about so I can get my A.

And I began to discover that it worked.  That just before I would go to class to take the exam or just before I sat down to write paper, that an idea would kind of drop down into my conscious reasoning mind and I would follow through with it.  Sometimes I would get the message to go back and read certain passages and I would go back and invariably when I would show up in class that’s what the test would be!

Maisha Hazzard is one of the experts featured in the transformational documentary Beyond Belief: www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

The producers of Beyond Belief are proud to announce that Beyond Words Publishing is now distributing Beyond Belief media products, and will be at the International New Age Trade Show (INATS) on June 26, where Julia Cameron will be appearing, along with Gary Zukav, Denise Linn, Marianne Williamson, Joan Borysenko, Lisa Williams and John Holland.

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The producers of Beyond Belief would like to extend our gratitude to all father’s in Honor of Father’s Day!  This is also a time to pause in reflection, as we honor our own father’s, and the lessons they have taught us.

In honor of Father’s Day, we are offering special discounts on the self-empowerment documentary, Beyond Belief. The DVD is now on sale for $19.95. We are also offering the Beyond Belief Workbook Plus Supplemental Materials on CD-ROM, on sale for $14.95.

In addition, the Audio Version of the movie with complete sound is on sale for only $14.95.

We wish you a safe and Happy Father’s Day.

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Short video by Marci Shimoff.  See more of Marci in the motivational film Beyond Belief.

Part two of a short video by Darren Weissman.  See more of Darren in the film Beyond Belief.

Short video by Darren Weissman.  You can also see Darren in the innovative film Beyond Belief: www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

Short video by Jonathan Ellerby, PhD.   See more of Jonathan in the inspiring film Beyond Belief:  www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

Short video produced by Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson.  Stewart shares more of his wisdom in the film Beyond Belief: www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

Short video by Judith Orloff, Medical Intuitive.   You can hear Judith speak on intuition in the film Beyond Belief: www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

By Jim Holzknecht, Producer

Woody Allen once wrote “Over 90% of success is just showing up.” Do you have a goal which you are not showing up for? One where you are not in action on? Or where there’s something you’ve given up on? Or maybe one where you haven’t even started yet because you are waiting for ”the perfect time” or until you have “more information” or until you have “more support” or some other version of that? Consider that whatever resistance you have created for yourself around that goal, that there could be one simple solution which will get you moving toward your goal. A solution which will enable you to start consistently showing up for your life: “committed daily action.”

I learned first hand how powerful a committed daily action could be during the production of Beyond Belief. For several weeks in 2009, I was feeling very tired and run down. The challenges of a rigorous production schedule were starting to take their toll. I wanted to commit to a healthy practice which would be challenging and which would give me more energy during the day.

I discussed this with Becky Hays, my co-producer of Beyond Belief, and we decided to do 21 straight days of yoga. We selected 21 days, initially, because many experts say that if you want to form a habit, do it for 21 consecutive days.

I had practiced Bikram Heated Yoga very inconsistently prior to launching our 21 consecutive day challenge, so I chose to do that yoga style while Becky chose to do Ashtanga. On June 22nd, 2009, after a production meeting, we both launched our 21 day yoga challenges. Let the yoga challenge begin!!! Little did I know that this simple action and commitment would change my life.

Throughout the 21 days, my mind raced with a myriad of reasons why not to go to yoga that day. Excuses abound from grocery shopping (which I intensely dislike), to some pressing work related task, to personal obligations, etc. On and on, the list of rationalizations, justifications, excuses came up demanding that I be anywhere else but the yoga studio.  Fortunately, I chose to honor my word and commitment to Becky more than the static interference being broadcast in my head.

After 21 days, I was feeling better and had more energy than I had in quite awhile, so we decided to extend our yoga challenge to 30 consecutive days. The protest and noise in my head continued, but I noticed that it was getting fainter. It didn’t have the charge and the volume that it once did.

At the 30 day point, I had a conversation with Becky and we decided to do extend our two person team challenge for 60 consecutive days. Even though we practiced yoga at different studios, she practiced at Yoga Yoga and I practiced at Bikram Yoga Davenport (BYD Austion) just knowing I wasn’t alone in the daily challenge was somewhat comforting.

After 60 consecutive days, in August 2009, I opened my big mouth and said, “hey, let’s keep going until Beyond Belief gets released.” As soon as the words left my mouth I wanted to pull them back in but it was too late. She quickly responded, “OK, let’s do it.” At that time, the “anticipated” release date was October 31st 2009 but given the amount that still needed to be done with the film, that milestone was somewhere between a dubious pipe dream and wishful thinking. My mind protested vehemently “what have you just committed to?” It screamed “another 60 plus consecutive days of yoga are you crazy?” Despite all my mental protests, I kept showing up, one day and one posture at a time. One of the most challenging postures for me was often just opening the front door to the studio, day, after day, after day. October 31st came and went and there was still a lot more work to be done on the film so our ever-growing challenge kept expanding and rolling along.

The film was released on December 15th, 2009. The release date marked my one hundredth and seventy seventh consecutive day of Bikram Heated yoga. As fate would have it, I kept the streak going after the December 15th, 2009 release and at the time of this article, will mark my 300th consecutive day of Bikram Heated Yoga.

For me, with each consecutive day of yoga, I get to expand what I previously thought was possible for myself and hopefully empower others to see what might be possible for them as well. This challenge has been one of the most rewarding and challenging things I have done in my life and it has helped to be a daily reminder of the importance and power of committed daily action. Whatever goal or intention you have, I invite you to commit to do something toward it each day and to start showing up for it, you never know where it will take you.

View the trailer and get the DVD of the film Beyond Belief at: www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com