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If It Works, Use It
If It Works, Use It has the opportunity to assist those who are ready to look at opinions, beliefs and the lived experience in all of its myriad facets and take ownership in order to be free. Awakening is as individual as a thumbprint and while some people believe that it has to be forced by suffering, it does not need to be though it is possible that the bitterness of unfulfilled expectation can compel a deeper truth.Toni possesses the spectrum of strength and gentleness to a degree that causes the reader to want "in". Her teachings and books reflect adherence to a middle way enabling the reader to unearth all of the bits and pieces, the hidden corners, exposing them to the light of neutrality. This book offers permission to look at the darker experiences of one's life and see them as bejeweled crowns of enlightenment.Toni handles her writing and experience in a way that is terribly responsible and those who are ready for it will respond. She opens her spiritual realizations to the reader, which is what all want in a Master Teacher, and yet it is like finding the Wizard behind the curtain. Some of the "mystique" is unveiled so the reader can realize the individual, personal power to come home. It seems nobody wants it to be so easy to remember. A price to pay holds appeal, though it "ain't necessarily so". As a Master Teacher, Toni is absolutely committed to assisting all spiritual seekers remember they are I AM.
220 pages, Paperback
First published March 18, 2019
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About the author
Toni Elizabeth Sar'h Petrinovich
7 books1 followerReverend Doctor Toni is a Master Teacher and mystic with a ministerial doctorate in metaphysics. She is the owner of Sacred Spaces in the beautiful San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. Toni is the author of Divining Truth, Straight Talk From Source (the story), its sequel Designing Truth, The Audacity of Intention; The Call – Awakening the Angelic Human, and its accompanying CD, DNA Re-Awakening plus If It Works, Use It all available on her website www.sacredspaceswa.com. Toni teaches awareness of the Divine I AM through her Meta yoU School of Mastery, guided meditation CDs, and video presentations. Access all of her websites at www.youaresacred.com
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May 7, 2019
"In this book If It Works, Use It the author, who has a ministerial doctorate in metaphysics, has set out with the goal of answering the question, “How did you get to be who you are?” After being asked the question by multiple people, Toni Elizaeth Sar’h Petrinovich decided to write about the question and answer it using her moments in time of 37 different perceptions to give readers examples and lessons. One of the first interesting points the author brought up was about slippage and I immediately identified this with a déjà vu moment. Petrinovich explains how it occurs when the frequency rate in another dimension is similar to the rate in our dimension. That was a perspective I had not thought of before. I have always joked that there is a parallel universe out there when this happens. Petrinovich has the perspective that there is. She also talks about nothing being supernatural and everything being natural. Another perspective about feeling like you need to help others and the feeling of it being a cloak around you was a fantastic call to trust in yourself and reaffirm you are going in the right direction. Acceptance of other people’s perspectives was another point. The fact that she called her husband a “heapoligist” who creates piles when he is working and how she accepts that in him showed her sense of humour in accepting different points of view.
I enjoyed the thought-provoking material in this novel. All 37 perceptions were interesting and the whole book was eye-opening and well written. It wasn’t something you could sit down and read in one sitting but to read one perception, put it down and either go back and read it again or move onto the next one was satisfying. It would have been even better to read it with a friend or a book club to discuss the material. It was a unique perspective of life and our place in it and worthy of a read to test the boundaries of what you believe in. It was the acceptance of If It Works, Use It!" TBR-TopBookReviewers
I enjoyed the thought-provoking material in this novel. All 37 perceptions were interesting and the whole book was eye-opening and well written. It wasn’t something you could sit down and read in one sitting but to read one perception, put it down and either go back and read it again or move onto the next one was satisfying. It would have been even better to read it with a friend or a book club to discuss the material. It was a unique perspective of life and our place in it and worthy of a read to test the boundaries of what you believe in. It was the acceptance of If It Works, Use It!" TBR-TopBookReviewers
April 11, 2019
Publishers Daily Review of If It Works, Use It
Of all the Reverend Doctor Toni Petrinovich’s many truisms in her life-altering book If It Works, Use It, the phrase that has stuck with me most goes back to a passage from the Bible -- from the Old Testament, to be exact.
Early on, Almighty God (whom my cynical young friends and I referred to in secret as The Great and Powerful Wizard of Was) refers to Himself by the mystical two-word aphorism “I Am.”
When you’re sixteen and still convinced that you know everything, such a declaration is wonderfully arrogant -- as if God is saying, “I have no reason to explain my cruel and destructive actions to you, young whipper snapper, so I will shroud myself in unknowable monikers and leave you to puzzle out my Goodness or Badness for yourself.”
And so this cosmic conundrum has in fact troubled me for the better part of sixty years -- this reckoning between the benevolent Father figure Jesus portrays in the New Testament and the brimstone-belching deity that lays waste to entire Middle East regions because they ignored (or were blissfully unaware of) one Supreme Commandment or another.
The Reverend Doctor Petrinovich at last clears away the decades of misunderstanding, however, by saying, in effect, “If such a fundamentally powerful concept as this has prevented you from knowing true peace for that long, my friend, I am indeed sorry.”
And then she goes about the business of patiently explaining what Jehovah felt beneath Himself to explain countless eons ago. And that is, in essence, “Trouble yourself no longer over this inexplicable duality and focus instead on what it takes for you to realize such a state of plateau-like peace.”
For that is, and was, and forevermore will be, the true point of what God meant by referring to himself as, simply, “I AM.”
Petrinovich has penned a beautiful and easy-reading text consisting of just 37 chapters to make her point. (It took the original King James Version of The Bible more than 1,189 chapters to reach a far less satisfying conclusion). And a powerful point it is.
She asks, rhetorically, “What does it mean for you to live as Divine Awareness?”
Then, she goes on to explain succinctly that “Living in this universe as an expression of Source is a day-to-day awareness of perfection no matter the situation or circumstances.
“Awareness is. Awareness is not positive or negative, nor does it hold specific beliefs. It is not creating a condition of right or wrong, good or bad.
“To live a daily life as I AM, which is what you mean by Divine Awareness, means you accept everything that is happening without judging it as right or wrong.”
She says she was once asked a question based upon her statement that she remembered the ‘other side of the veil’ or being non-physical. The question was, ‘“What is it like?”’
“I had not been asked that question before,” she says, “so I was silent as I looked for the perfect word or words to use as a description of non-physicality. My response was, “’It is a realm without judgment.’”
And thus, in just a few well-chosen paragraphs, she both explains God’s perception of the human condition from His lofty eyrie of unfathomable inscrutability and, in the same few breaths, observes that the phrase “I AM” has become woefully misunderstood.
If it is, in fact, such a blameless place as Dr. Petrinovich portrays, it seems He could have merely said as much and saved centuries of endless speculation.
And so, having dwelt upon this particular point overlong, we realize there are 36 other fine chapters of her book that we are, for reasons of space limitations, leaving for exploration by you, The Reader.
Suffice to say, however, they are equally profound, touching on such diverse topics as:
Unity
Ah-Ha Moments
Metaphysics
Faith
Love
Unconditional Love
Life Purpose
Self-Expression
Obstacles
Co-Creation and a particularly choice chapter on something she calls
Twin Souls
If It Works, Use It, receives our very highest rating of five-plus stars and stands far above the sometimes ubiquitous genre of Self-Help to rest comfortably with the likes of Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now.
If you’re a seeker after inner peace, this is certainly a good place to start.
Of all the Reverend Doctor Toni Petrinovich’s many truisms in her life-altering book If It Works, Use It, the phrase that has stuck with me most goes back to a passage from the Bible -- from the Old Testament, to be exact.
Early on, Almighty God (whom my cynical young friends and I referred to in secret as The Great and Powerful Wizard of Was) refers to Himself by the mystical two-word aphorism “I Am.”
When you’re sixteen and still convinced that you know everything, such a declaration is wonderfully arrogant -- as if God is saying, “I have no reason to explain my cruel and destructive actions to you, young whipper snapper, so I will shroud myself in unknowable monikers and leave you to puzzle out my Goodness or Badness for yourself.”
And so this cosmic conundrum has in fact troubled me for the better part of sixty years -- this reckoning between the benevolent Father figure Jesus portrays in the New Testament and the brimstone-belching deity that lays waste to entire Middle East regions because they ignored (or were blissfully unaware of) one Supreme Commandment or another.
The Reverend Doctor Petrinovich at last clears away the decades of misunderstanding, however, by saying, in effect, “If such a fundamentally powerful concept as this has prevented you from knowing true peace for that long, my friend, I am indeed sorry.”
And then she goes about the business of patiently explaining what Jehovah felt beneath Himself to explain countless eons ago. And that is, in essence, “Trouble yourself no longer over this inexplicable duality and focus instead on what it takes for you to realize such a state of plateau-like peace.”
For that is, and was, and forevermore will be, the true point of what God meant by referring to himself as, simply, “I AM.”
Petrinovich has penned a beautiful and easy-reading text consisting of just 37 chapters to make her point. (It took the original King James Version of The Bible more than 1,189 chapters to reach a far less satisfying conclusion). And a powerful point it is.
She asks, rhetorically, “What does it mean for you to live as Divine Awareness?”
Then, she goes on to explain succinctly that “Living in this universe as an expression of Source is a day-to-day awareness of perfection no matter the situation or circumstances.
“Awareness is. Awareness is not positive or negative, nor does it hold specific beliefs. It is not creating a condition of right or wrong, good or bad.
“To live a daily life as I AM, which is what you mean by Divine Awareness, means you accept everything that is happening without judging it as right or wrong.”
She says she was once asked a question based upon her statement that she remembered the ‘other side of the veil’ or being non-physical. The question was, ‘“What is it like?”’
“I had not been asked that question before,” she says, “so I was silent as I looked for the perfect word or words to use as a description of non-physicality. My response was, “’It is a realm without judgment.’”
And thus, in just a few well-chosen paragraphs, she both explains God’s perception of the human condition from His lofty eyrie of unfathomable inscrutability and, in the same few breaths, observes that the phrase “I AM” has become woefully misunderstood.
If it is, in fact, such a blameless place as Dr. Petrinovich portrays, it seems He could have merely said as much and saved centuries of endless speculation.
And so, having dwelt upon this particular point overlong, we realize there are 36 other fine chapters of her book that we are, for reasons of space limitations, leaving for exploration by you, The Reader.
Suffice to say, however, they are equally profound, touching on such diverse topics as:
Unity
Ah-Ha Moments
Metaphysics
Faith
Love
Unconditional Love
Life Purpose
Self-Expression
Obstacles
Co-Creation and a particularly choice chapter on something she calls
Twin Souls
If It Works, Use It, receives our very highest rating of five-plus stars and stands far above the sometimes ubiquitous genre of Self-Help to rest comfortably with the likes of Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now.
If you’re a seeker after inner peace, this is certainly a good place to start.
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