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“No Taj Mahal?!” My crew sighed as we flew past the Taj Mahal on a flight down to Bangalore to meet Sri Sri in his Ashram. We were originally scheduled to shoot at the Taj Mahal, however, the synchronicity of how my interview with Sri Sri happened, compelled me to take us on a 9 hour journey to meet Sri Sri. Before I left for India, my daughter said,” Mom, you should interview Sri Sri. He has a festival where 4 million people are coming together for peace while you are there.” The sheer thought of 4 million people coming together because of something a living person is doing, sounded …

This birthday Ziggy Marley’s excellent song, “Love is my Religion” come to mind. “I don’t condemn I don’t convert” is a very powerful message. I am very clear that it is not my right to decide what people should believe or think, I can only express how I feel and what I see from my knowledge and experience then respect another’s path even though it may be leading to a cliff. Sometimes we can stop them, sometimes we are meant to soften their fall and sometimes we must let them learn their own lesson. We are all moving at our own pace. No matter how much we want to influence …

Linda sat down at the City Palace in Jaipur with the amazing Princess Diya. While running for political office she tells Linda how she envisioned the win! Stay tuned for more Tapping In India coming soon! ‪#‎jaipur‬ ‪#‎princessdiya‬‪#‎oprah‬ ‪#‎india‬

As humans we tend to focus more on how the world is treating us than how we are treating the world. We can all see how that’s going for us. Maybe we are a bit lost at the moment but we are amazing at fixing things.   When I was taping a dive on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) for the current Tapping IN Conservation episode, I could see first hand that the GBR is still thriving. Where people have been taking from it and harming it in the past, more and more protocols are being put in place to protect and heal it. That is a good thing because, we …

As much as we are being bombarded with what seems to be going wrong all around us, there is absolutely so much that is good going on around us! If we try our best to seek it, look for it, guaranteed, we will find it. All of us are really good at something that will make a positive change to the whole or we wouldn’t be here. It takes the same amount of time to share a cool idea or encouraging thought as it does to share a complaint. The difference is the keys to happiness are only found in the light. I thought to share this short clip from …

When I was taping in India, I saw the wooden sandals in which Gandhi walked for hundreds of miles in the house in which he stayed in Mumbai. No doubt, they hurt to wear them. I asked my guide,”why would he do that? Wasn’t walking hundreds of miles not enough?” Her reply, “Mahatma was always trying to master his mind.” I couldn’t really say he was nuts because at times I chose to wear the most uncomfortable high heels and my motive is self centered rather than for the purpose of gaining freedom for all from an oppressive government through nonviolence, which, btw, he achieved.  The only thing I achieved …

I Saw a “Sign” on Cannery Row The intention for taping in Cannery Row was partly to show how this area’s wildlife that was previously decimated by overfishing had been revived. The morning we went out in Kayaks on a sea of glass, we no longer touched the water when in seconds, schools of anchovies and flocks of birds came from everywhere. I took it as a sign that as Tapping IN is about connecting us to the source of happiness, the source wanted to make sure we got this on tape as a message to show we have the ability to restore beauty, restore nature and since we are …

At 5:30 AM, Jaipur was buzzing as we lifted off in an air balloon and flew over the city and everyone’s breakfast tables. It felt like the Wizard landing in Oz ad the villagers came running to greet us. More to come when Tapping IN hits India.

So perhaps there are as many as 1000 people in the earth plane right now who actually do remember everything and “know it all.” In the East, these people are called, “Reincarnates.” When they are just toddlers, they can identify people and places without having any previous education. This is a “no brainer” in countries like Bhutan, Tibet, etc. These people know who they are and why they are here in this time period and are cultivated to lead. The rest of us are absorbing slowly and whether you are one of the 1000 or the slow absorber, all of our purposes here are equally important and tied together. That …

I got a chance to play a song I wrote for my daughter, Lorianna Swain, on the signature red piano in the sensational Oberoi Mumbai where we taped some wonderful interactions in for our upcoming Tapping IN show. Stayed tuned!

Mallakhamb is a traditional Indian sport that combines Yoga, Pilates and gymnastics! What an amazing sport! Linda’s even getting in on the action. See more of this when Tapping IN explores India! Stay tuned! ‪

Linda practices some Bollywood dancing as we film in India.  

Linda makes some new friends at cricket lessons in Mumbai!

Linda in India taping for an all new Tapping IN special. She had the chance to tape and help the Dabbawalas sort lunches for delivery in Mumbai. Amazing story of 5000 people working together without error that Richard Branson studied and Prince Charles honored.

I am on my way to Mumbai, India to tape for next show and I am looking forward to all of the signs I did not expect that will present themselves. The coincidences are the signs; “guiding lights.” I mentioned we are like computers in a previous blog. Let’s say we are programmable and like your laptop or mobile device, the results come when it is programmed specifically. We allow so many others to program our thoughts we become reactive to the next thing that happens so that doesn’t make us happy. The real happiness or inner power come when we accept that the ultimate program designer is ourselves. So, …

There are doors that are just waiting for you to open. Things are going to crash down around us while we are moving along with our “I had this so thought out!” plan. But as they say, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him/her your plan.” Every time we react in anger, frustration or defeat, the doors stay hidden. We cannot find these because our attitude is our latitude.   Setbacks hold the keys to hidden doors and the keys will not show themselves without a positive response. It is like if you do not have the correct password for your computer, it will not let you in. …

Imagine that we are like computers. We are programmed by others and our experiences but the program designer who has final say in our happiness is us! Get an orange and hold it under your nose and breath in the scent while you think about where you see yourself being happier several months away. What are you doing? What happened in the summer? Did you finally take that road trip, change your job, fix that relationship issues that were troubling? Be specific because like a computer, if you google,”How can I be a happier in September?” all sorts of things will pop up which confuse your inner ‘Siri.” We will …

What? It is probably the last wish we want to think about for the New Year but maybe the very thing that brings us the most happiness. Where does a New Year’s resolution go without discipline? South! They all do. What happens when we get off track? I believe, all sorts of things that don’t make us happy. I am planning on being more disciplined when it comes to Yoga because I love it and I get off track when travel for work. Oh, I have heaps of justifiable reasons but they don’t make me happy, just less fit. From age 7 to 17, I was scared to death to …

There is a place that requires you to leave your ego at the border or the beach, in this energetic spot on the planet. Byron Bay, Australia is built in the pathway of a once active volcano and people believe the energy flow has replaced the lava flow that covered the area. The status symbol here is how big is your smile or how bare are your feet because you’re here. In Byron, you can check out the wheat grass shots in the organic open air market, you can hop in a kayak and visit the resident dolphins who live free and happily in the bay and you feel you …

As I drank out of yet another plastic bottle, I could hear the late George Carlin in his epic, “Save the Planet” monologue, the earth just wanted the human race to invent plastic and now she will dispose of us like we dispose of plastic. Anyway, I must do better. If I do, I know things everywhere will get better.  As Gandhi said, “Change yourself, change the world. I believe this! Clarence from the Mingingbal people of Australia, shows us how 30,000 years of his ancestors’ living in sync with the planet can be our course now. They knew the difference between dominion over the earth and domination over the …