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THE ULTIMATE BRAINWASH

Whose Life Are You Living?

By Maxine Jones

Unseen rules control your every thought, action

and feeling. How do you change them and walk into freedom, power, joy and creativity?

Coypright  ©  2012  by  Maxine  Jones  The  trademarks  for  Stretch  Your  Wings  and  Fly  and  Transits  of  the  Soul  are  owned  by  author  Maxine  Jones.      All  rights  reserved.  No  part  of  this  book  may  be  reproduced,  stored  in  a  retrieval  system,  or  transmitted  by  any  means  without  the  written  permission  of  the  author  except  for  the  inclusion  of  quotes  in  a  review.    

     Cherry  Tree  Publishing  PO  Box  450962  Atlanta,  Georgia  31145  www.maxinejonesandassociates.com  

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Contents    Chapter  One:  What  Are  Agreements? ............................................................ Page  4  Chapter  Two:  Types  of  Agreements  ............................................................... Page  7     Personal  and  Individual  Agreements     Human  Consciousness  Agreements     Master  or  Soul  Agreements  Chapter  Three:  Personal  and  Individual  Agreements ..........................Page  10     How  Children  Learn  Agreements     Agreements  with  Nature     Making  a  New  Agreement  with  Nature     How  the  Mind  Interprets  Agreements  Chapter  Four:  Human  Consciousness  Agreements   ...............................Page  20       Collective  Agreements     Symbols     Family  Agreements     Local  Agreements     Cultural  Agreements     Religious  Agreements     National  Agreements     Obstacles  to  Changing  Agreements     Push  Me,  Pull  You  Chapter  Five:  Master  or  Soul  Agreements .................................................Page  36     How  I  Read  a  Book  Without  Actually  Reading  It     Species  Agreements  Chapter  Six:  How  Soul  Agreements  are  Evolving  Today ......................Page  42     Where  Does  Soul  Fit?     This  Began  100  Years  Ago     Karmic  Agreements  Chapter  Seven:  How  to  Revise,              Reframe  and  Retrain  Agreements............................................................Page  49     Detaching     Replacing     Revising  Chapter  Eight:  Walking  into  Wholeness .....................................................Page  56     Personal  Empowerment  Chapter  Nine:  New  Agreements  Can  Bring  You  Freedom....................Page  60  About  the  Author..................................................................................................Page  65    

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CHAPTER ONE What Are Agreements?  Let’s  talk  about  agreements:  types  of  agreements,  how  they  are  created  and  sustained,  and  how  you  can  work  with  your  own  agreements  by  recognizing  them,  releasing  them  and,  in  many  cases,  revising  ones  that  are  already  there.  We’ll  look  at  the  benefits  of  working  with  agreements,  how  you  may  be  getting  your  way  or  how  you’re  making  it  difficult  for  agreements  to  shift  and  change.  Then  I’ll  give  you  a  step-­‐by-­‐step  process,  including  a  meditation,  on  how  to  recognize  and  release  agreements  and  replace  them.  And  finally,  we’ll  talk  about  why  agreements  work.      Just  what  are  agreements?    Agreements  are  energy.  They  create  order  and  structure  in  your  physical  world.  They  are  not  necessarily  based  in  truth  or  in  any  kind  of  reality  that  you  would  recognize.  They  seek,  require  and,  many  times,  demand  that  they  be  validated  and  supported.  The  more  you  repeat  an  agreement,  the  more  it  becomes  a  habit  and  looks  or  appears  like  a  truth.      It  is  very  easy  to  change  and  create  agreements,  because  they  are  just  energy.  They  are  thought  forms.  The  more  a  thought  form  is  questioned,  the  more  flexible  it  becomes.  And  because  thoughts  are  simply  energy,  it’s  quite  easy  to  shift  and  create  with  agreements.  At  

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the  same  time,  they  are  extremely  powerful.  They  are  the  most  powerful  creating  force  in  human  consciousness.    Authority  holds  the  structure  of  agreements  in  place.  Once  you  have  an  agreement  and  it  holds  a  thought  form,  authority  holds  it  in  place  and  begins  to  make  it  appear  to  be  real  or  true.  Some  examples  of  authority  are  science,  religion,  culture,  government,  school  lessons,  experience,  your  own  trauma  –  all  of  those  things  that  are  greater  in  some  way  than  self.      Two  examples  of  agreements  through  science  are  that  Earth  is  flat  or  that  it’s  the  center  of  the  universe.  An  agreement  from  personal  trauma  could  be  “I’m  not  good  enough  because  I  flunked  that  quiz”  or  “It’s  bad  to  make  mistakes.”  Two  examples  of  my  own  personal  trauma  agreements:  I  never  used  erasers  on  pencils  because  I  wasn’t  allowed  to  make  mistakes.  Bananas  make  me  sick  because  I  saw  a  movie  about  Africa  where  they  were  eating  white  worms  and  they  reminded  me  of  bananas.    Unfortunately,  agreements  are  often  created  out  of  emotion:  fear,  doubt  or  protection;  or  conviction,  a  need  to  control  or  take  power  over  something,  or  a  need  to  hang  onto  something.  Agreements  are  very  strong  because  emotions  hold  them  in  place.  Subsequently,  they  are  strongly  protected  by  that  same  emotion  and  energy  of  fear,  doubt,  conviction,  power,  control  or  greater  purpose.    An  example  of  greater  purpose  holding  an  agreement  in  place  is  the  belief  that  everyone  has  to  wear  seat  belts.  Another  is  that  you’re  supposed  to  be  sad  and  grieving  at  a  funeral.    Agreements  can  be  conscious,  unconscious,  in  nature,  in  spirit,  and  in  multiple  dimensions.  Because  they  are  forms  of  thought  held  

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together,  they  are  available  and  appear  to  every  reality.  They  are  the  primary  tool  of  creating  physical  form  and  holding  it.  If  agreements  are  created  in  fear,  they  hold  you  in  that  fear  and  that  limitation.  But  they  can  also  be  created,  in  many  different  ways,  out  of  expanded  expression  of  an  inner  truth  or  a  greater  truth.  Agreements  are  already  in  place  everywhere  around  us.  Every  thing  you  look  at  and  everything  you  see  are  held  together  by  agreements.    You  may  have  find  that  even  after  careful  planning,  therapy,  praying,  hoping  and  dreaming,  you  see  the  same  thing  happen  repeatedly.  You  think  you  have  worked  it  through  and  yet  it  comes  back.  This  is  often  because  the  pattern  is  set  in  place  by  an  agreement.                                                                                                                              

Everything you look at and everything you see is held together by agreements.

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CHAPTER TWO

Types of Agreements  There  are  many  types  of  agreements.  We  will  look  at  the  three  primary  ones:    1.  Personal  or  individual  agreements  2.  Human  consciousness  agreements       Collective  agreements       Family       Local       Cultural       National       Religious  3.        Higher  consciousness  or  master  or  soul  agreements       Universal  laws  –  soul  and  source  agreements      Personal  and  Individual  Agreements    In  the  first  category,  there  are  two  distinct  areas:  personal  agreements,  or  those  you  hold  yourself,  and  individual  agreements,  which  are  assigned  to  you  by  an  authority  or  your  society.  Let’s  explore  both.    Personal  agreements  come  out  of  conscious  personal  choice.  They  often  grow  out  of  individual  history  or  circumstance,  experience  and  

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things  that  happen  to  you.  Karma  and  ego  have  a  big  impact  on  agreements  you  have  with  yourself,  which  creates  a  very  individual  experience.  Your  ego  needs  to  have  a  unique  identity.  Therefore,  agreements  are  how  our  unique  individual  character  and  personal  quirks  are  formed  and  manifested.  We  tend  to  develop  personal  agreements  early  in  life  in  order  to  fit  in  and  to  survive,  be  safe  and  get  love.    Individual  agreements,  which  are  assigned  to  you  by  an  authority,  your  culture,  community,  teachers  or  parents,  are  much  different.  They  tend  to  be  far  more  impactful  in  your  society.  As  human  beings,  we  grasp  the  individual  agreements  early  on  in  our  lives  in  order  to  know  how  to  act  with  other  people.  Again,  we’re  looking  to  fit  in  and  survive.  Individual  agreements  based  on  society  or  community  are  quite  complex  and  layered  within  us.                                                                  Human  Consciousness  Agreements    Human  consciousness  agreements  are  about  the  consciousness  itself,  how  it’s  structured  and  how  it’s  put  together  in  this  civilization.  These  agreements  are  written  down  –  maybe  not  physically,  but  they  are  written  in  the  consciousness  of  almost  anyone  on  the  Earth.  They  are  unspoken  rules.  These  include  agreements  in  the  collective,  family,  local  community,  culture,  nation  and  religion.                                                                                                                                                  Master  or  Soul  Agreements    Now,  with  the  higher  or  master  agreements,  our  third  category,  you’re  getting  into  a  fun  area.  Master  agreements  are  the  ones  that  are  much  more  universal  in  their  boundaries,  their  structure  and  

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their  order.  It’s  a  barrier  that’s  beyond  time,  beyond  space.  If  it’s  beyond  time,  that’s  where  the  time  traveler  lives.  Beyond  space  is  where  the  shape  shifter  manifests.  It’s  a  place  of  eternity  where  regeneration  and  rejuvenation  are  a  part  of  life  because  it’s  just  energy  moving.  There  are  many  possibilities  in  master  agreements.  It’s  where  we  define  the  many  levels  of  consciousness  beyond  human  awareness  and  control.  Master  agreements  are  expansive.  They  feel  like  they’re  full  of  freedom  and  endless  possibility.      So  the  three  types  of  agreements  we  will  be  working  on  are  individual,  both  personal  and  society;  human  consciousness;  and  master  or  soul  agreements.                                                                                                                            

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About  the  Author    Maxine  Jones  is  an  author  and  international  personal  and  professional  coach  who  specializes  in  uncovering  the  power  of  the  soul  to  develop  a  person’s  achievement,  fulfillment  and  heart-­‐centered  success.  Her  life’s  work  is  about  helping  people  connect  with  the  deepest  part  of  themselves  so  they  can  transcend  the  ordinary  struggle  of  life  and  participate  in  creating  a  greater  world  for  us  all.    Since  1982,  she  has  worked  with  individuals  as  well  as  large  corporations,  unlocking  that  hidden  dialogue  that  changes  a  person’s  life  forever.      Maxine  started  her  career  as  a  marketing/advertising  executive  at  one  of  the  largest  firms  in  Chicago.  In  the  late  1990s  she  worked  with  Fortune  100  companies  to  research  the  impact  of  gender-­‐based  physiological  differences  on  organizations,  leadership,  performance  and  achievement.  Through  her  seminars  and  retreats  for  executive  clients,  she  enabled  organizations  to  improve  the  contribution  of  women  in  the  workplace.      Leaving  the  corporate  world  to  pursue  a  career  better  matched  to  her  higher  education  and  spirituality,  she  trained  people  in  yoga,  massage,  health  and  wellness,  and  wilderness  survival  skills.  She  was  appointed  to  study  and  teach  Native  American  culture  and  selected  as  a  Fulbright  Scholarship  candidate  to  work  in  secondary  education  in  Tanzania.  In  Kenya,  she  participated  in  an  ecological  initiative  with  the  Smithsonian  Institution.  She  also  initiated,  developed  and  implemented  a  humanitarian  project  in  Botswana.      

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Maxine  realized  her  special  intuitive  powers  when  she  was  a  young  child  and  communicated  with  an  imaginary  friend  she  later  came  to  know  was  her  soul.  About  this  same  time,  she  met  an  African  elder  who  became  her  mentor.  Raised  by  two  highly  educated  parents,  she  was  always  encouraged  to  pursue  her  dreams.  Her  mother  was  a  theologian,  metaphysician  and  dietitian,  her  father  an  international  transportation  engineer.  She  trained  for  the  Junior  Olympics  in  gymnastics,  earned  state  championship  titles  in  swimming  and  diving,  and  became  an  avid  tennis  player.  Today  she  is  a  certified  scuba  diver.      Maxine  is  trained  in  nursing  and  holds  a  bachelor  of  science  in  psychology  and  a  master’s  in  human  resource  development  and  education  from  DePaul  University.  She  has  delivered  keynotes  and  led  seminars  and  retreats  on  health  and  psychology  to  audiences  as  small  as  30  and  as  large  as  1,500.  Today  she  delivers  customized  presentations,  seminars  and  retreats  on  the  power  of  the  soul.      Her  books  include  Desperately  Seeking  Purpose:  Uniting  Generations  in  Global  Consciousness  and  Stretch  Your  Wings  and  Fly:  A  Guide  to  Using  the  Power  of  Your  Soul.      

In  the  Author’s  Words    I  am  a  writer,  author  and  speaker  and  enjoy  looking  at  life  in  new  ways,  asking  the  question  “What  if?…”  My  passion  is  to  support  our  changing  global  consciousness  by  empowering  one  heart  and  soul  at  a  time.      I  love  my  animals  with  all  my  heart:  Boo  Boo,  my  African  Grey,  a  lovebird  named  Rascal,  my  magnificent  Goldendoodle  Diego,  and  an  adorable  Coton  de  Tulear  CC  (Christ  Consciousness),  a  rare  dog  breed  from  Madagascar.      

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As  my  wisdom  emerges,  I  discover  I  can’t  buy  more  time,  so  deep,  heartfelt,  committed  relationships  with  all  living  things  are  most  important  to  me.  Those  closest  to  me  describe  me  as  fun-­loving,  confident  and  sincere.  I  am  an  optimist  with  traditional  values,  yet  liberal  in  my  thinking.  I  take  responsibility  for  my  life  experiences.      Essentially  happy,  balanced,  adventurous,  affectionate  and  responsible,  I  am  an  explorer  of  new  thought  and  love  supporting  others  to  be  the  best  they  can  be.    

Maxine at age 5 talking to the plants.

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