What is your favorite quality about yourself? Kanta: I see with eyes of gratitude and compassion. I can find the gift in challenges and see the light inside challenging people (even though I may choose to avoid them).

What is your least favorite quality about yourself? Kanta: We all have an inner critic and I am not exempt from this human quality! I’m happy to say though, that over my lifetime so far, I’ve built a sizable toolbox for shifting my state from one in which I pay attention to this mean inner part to one in which I’m feeling self-acceptance and joy. So, even my inner critic has been an ally, because its very presence gave me a reason to learn something of use to myself and other people.

How long have you been writing? Kanta: Painting, drawing and writing are interwoven for me. I began painting and drawing as a toddler and started writing stories and poems when I was six. I liked to illustrate my poems and writings and still do.

When did you first know you could be a writer? Kanta: I am a minister and I write in the mind/body/spirit genre and make sacred art. Looking back, I can see that that I was on this path from day one. It wasn’t until I was an adolescent that it occurred to me that I could do these things professionally. I was raised to be a genteel country club wife, and by the time I was ten or eleven, I knew this was not the life I wanted for myself.

Who or what influenced your writing once you began? There is a parallelism between my genre of painting and my style of writing. I am an “Outsider Artist,” which means that I paint from the inside out. I paint from my mind and heart. I paint the soul of things, rather than a perfect photographic representation. I write from the inside out too. So, the “influence” is primarily an internal one, though as an artist/writer the works of others give me pleasure and inspire me. In art, I love vibrant, color-rich paintings like those of Peter Max, Matisse, Chagall, Monet, Kandinsky, and Alex Grey. In writing, I like fiction in the mystery thriller genre. Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Michael Connelly, and Janet Evanovitch. I also read a lot of books in my own genre, books on New Thought spirituality and Hawaiian and Peruvian shamanism.

Who or what influenced your writing over the years? Kanta: I’ve always loved spiritual literature. Greek and Norse myths, fairy tales, Arthurian legend, fables, Bible stories, and poetry were childhood and young adult favorites. I especially love Joseph Campbell and Rumi.

What made you want to be a writer? Kanta: It never occurred to me not to be one. It’s just something that’s in me. It’s in my nature.

How did you come up with the title of the book? Kanta: I coined the term “abundance triggers” to apply to the many tools I discovered for shifting from fear and lack consciousness to prosperity consciousness. These tools function like “happy buttons.” They trigger good feelings effectively and reliably. I think most people are aware that feeling good is the launchpad for goal achievement. But most people don’t know what to do when their negative mind comes a-knocking. The antidote for the influence of negative triggers is the use of “abundance triggers.”

Give us three facts about you: Kanta:

1.I was raised as a Quaker and went to twelve years of Quaker School. It was a great intellectual, creative, and spiritual learning lab. Even if I did get my mouth washed out with that yellowy-green liquid soap for the horrible infraction of saying “Shut up, Billy Schmidt !” I still maintain that he deserved it.

2. I once taught a meditation class in a maximum security prison for men. It was in this class that I first saw auras. A lesson that there is light within all people!

You can hear the story with a slideshow on YouTube, “Two Amazing Abundance Stories” http://youtu.be/KhtmWmTdCkg (from a talk at Unity Church of Gainesville, FLA). There’s another YouTube clip with slideshow that includes this story http://youtu.be/4xHaOgMqaZU from a talk at Unity Church of San Antonio TX.

3. I joke that it’s my goal to be the Erle Stanley Gardner of mind/body spirit books. Remember his Perry Mason stories? Gardner wrote 130 novels, two non-fiction law books, and numerous short stores and novellas. The guy was incredibly prolific!

Tell us a little bit about the cover art. Who designed it? What made you choose that particular image/artwork? Kanta: I sketched a detailed design and gave it to the publisher. In most of my books, I use one of my mandala paintings as the focus of the front cover. This one’s a little different. The image shows me lighting the candles on the altar in my old holistic center. The photo was taken by Patricia Robin Woodruff and I love the dreamy effect she created.

Lighting candles has long been used as a metaphor for inspiring new ideas. I chose a green background because green is a color of prosperity. And the gradient effect is part of my brand. Almost all my books, CDs and audiobooks include that rainbow look as part of the overall design. The first CD I made was designed by Carlos Gil. The gradient he included beautifully reflected he ambient quality of the music and guided imagery. So, from that moment on, rainbows became the common design motif of all my publications.

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ABOUT KANTA BOSNIAK

Kanta Bosniak is an artist, writer and minister with over 40 years experience an educator in spiritual growth. She is a frequent speaker at churches, universities and conferences throughout the US. Venues have included Yale, Columbia, SUNY, Virginia Tech, UNCW, Camp LeJeune Midway Center for US Marines, The Association for Research and Enlightenment, Unity Churches, and many more. Kanta is the author of 12 books and 5 audio recordings and was twice Artist-in-Residence at Omega Institute. Collectors of Kanta’s art include a Nobel Prize Winner, an Emmy-winning producer, a popular television actress, several authors, a U.S. National champion athlete and people of all walks of life. She is listed in Who’s Who in . 

Abundance Triggers by Kanta Bosniak Link: http://amzn.com/1456502190

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Kanta: Abundance Triggers is a guidebook for shifting yourself from not feeling good to feeling good so reliably and consistently that happiness becomes a new normal. It offers a whole toolbox of techniques and it also offers a process to create your own personalized “abundance triggers” too.

* Did something specific happen to prompt you to write this book?

Kanta: Yes. One day several years ago, I was sitting in my rocking chair talking with a client. And I thought, “This stuff needs to go out to more people. This is too useful to only share with one person at a time.” I guess you could say I felt a sense of stewardship and responsibility about what I have to offer. Or perhaps, more accurately, what’s expressed through me, as me.

* Who is your biggest supporter?

Kanta: I have an amazing support system, for which I am profoundly grateful. My family, in-person and cyber friends, editor and proofreader, technical brainiacs, readers and reviewers. But ultimately, the strongest support I have comes from within. 

A lot of it comes through dreams. I wake up and I have new ideas, directions, and words. I just know where to go. Other times, too. In meditation, when I paint or sew, and especially when  driving on the highway. One reviewer who is an intuitive said it was channeled material. In the neighborhood of channeled, maybe. But not at that specific address! I have to work at it like every other writer and “channeled” is too strong of a word. Inspired, yes. I thank that inner co-writer every day!

* Your biggest critic?

Kanta: That comes from within too, but from a less evolved personality part. Call it the ego, pain-body, shadow, or the negative self. We all have it and it’s a fool. The more we heal it the less we care what anyone else thinks. Getting older helps, too. There’s a popular notion that people get more cautious as they age. That’s not what I observe in my own life or that of my friends. We’ve gotten bolder and wilder. Not reckless, just more comfortable in our own skins and with our own choices.

* Do you have any rituals you follow when finishing a piece of work?

Kanta: I go out to lunch and I buy something pretty to wear.

* What are you currently working on?

Kanta: A new book in my series of sacred love poems. It’s called Twin Flames. The poems are finished and it’s out to the reviewers. I’m working on the illustrations.

* Is there an author who inspired you to write?

Kanta: I learned to read early and read everything I could get my hands on. I liked folk and fairy tales, Joel Chandler’s The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, and Aesop’s Fables, and stories from the Bible. But to pick one author, I’d have to say Watty Piper. This was the pen name of publisher Arnold Munk, who retold a story that had been circulating around for a while and presented it with great illustrations. The Little Engine That Could electrified me. I wanted to become someone who inspired people through art and writing. So, that book set me on my path.

* What do you feel has been your greatest achievement as an author?

Kanta: Presenting ideas in a conversational way, so that they’re accessible and anchoring them with stories and invitations to creative play. Many of my books have a creative journaling component. When people get to express themselves, good things happen.

* What is the most important lesson that you have learned from life so far?

Kanta: When you’re happy and grateful, things go better. Happy is the launchpad. And it’s surprisingly easy to be happy, once you know how!

link to this interview on “My Cozie Corner Blog”

Link to purchase “Abundance Triggers” on Amazon:  Abundance Triggers by Kanta Bosniak http://amzn.com/1456502190

George Fox, Founder of the Religious Society of Friends

My intention for this blog is for it to serve as an “abundance trigger” for people who visit here. That they can know that they will always find posts that are uplifting and good-feeling. I am not a social activist; I am a spiritual activist. So, though I have respect for those who post political stuff on theirs, I choose to avoid it here. But when it come to the food supply, it’s not about politics; it’s about the well-being of all of us and all of our children and grandchildren. So, when I read that Monsanto owns Quaker, I felt a disconnect between the brand name and the namesake and I made a decision to buy my oats from other fields and to do affirmative prayer that people around the world and here at home, claim the right to good and healthy food. I’m thinking George Fox would like that.

“Sing and rejoice ye children of the day and the light; for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt: and the Truth doth flourish as the rose, and lilies do grow among the thorns and the plants atop the hills, and upon them the lambs doth skip and play.”
― George Fox, The Journal of George Fox

Could you please tell us a little about your book?

Kanta: Abundance Triggers is a guidebook for shifting yourself from not feeling good to feeling good so reliably and consistently that happiness becomes a new normal. It offers a whole toolbox of techniques and it also offers a process to create your own personalized “abundance triggers” too.

Did something specific happen to prompt you to write this book?

Kanta: Yes. One day several years ago, I was sitting in my rocking chair talking with a client. And I thought, “This stuff needs to go out to more people. This is too useful to only share with one person at a time.” I guess you could say I felt a sense of stewardship and responsibility about what I have to offer. Or perhaps, more accurately, what’s expressed through me, as me.

Who is your biggest supporter?

Kanta: I have an amazing support system, for which I am profoundly grateful. My family, in-person and cyber friends, editor and proofreader, technical brainiacs, readers and reviewers. But ultimately, the strongest support I have comes from within.

A lot of it comes through dreams. I wake up and I have new ideas, directions, and words. I just know where to go. Other times, too. In meditation, when I paint or sew, and especially when  driving on the highway. One reviewer who is an intuitive said it was channeled material. In the neighborhood of channeled, maybe. But not at that specific address! I have to work at it like every other writer and “channeled” is too strong of a word. Inspired, yes. I thank that inner co-writer every day!

Your biggest critic?

Kanta: That comes from within too, but from a less evolved part personality part. Call it the ego, pain-body, shadow, or the negative self. We all have it and it’s a fool. The more we heal it the less we care what anyone else thinks. Getting older helps, too. There’s a popular notion that people get more cautious as they age. That’s not what I observe in my own life or that of my friends. We’ve gotten bolder and wilder. Not reckless, just more comfortable in our own skins and with our own choices. Do you have any rituals you follow when finishing a piece of work?

Kanta: I go out to lunch and I buy something pretty to wear.

What are you currently working on?

Kanta: A new book in my series of sacred love poems. It’s called Twin Flames. The poems are finished and it’s out to the reviewers. I’m working on the illustrations.

Is there an author who inspired you to write?

Kanta: I learned to read early and read everything I could get my hands on. I liked folk and fairy tales, Joel Chandler’s The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, and Aesop’s Fables, and stories from the Bible. But to pick one author, I’d have to say Watty Piper. This was the pen name of publisher Arnold Munk, who retold a story that had been circulating around for a while and presented it with great illustrations. The Little Engine That Could electrified me. I wanted to become someone who inspired people through art and writing. So, that book set me on my path.

What do you feel has been your greatest achievement as an author?

Kanta: Presenting ideas in a conversational way, so that they’re accessible and anchoring them with stories and invitations to creative play. Many of my books have a creative journaling component. When people get to express themselves, good things happen.

What is the most important lesson that you have learned from life so far?

Kanta: When you’re happy and grateful, things go better. Happy is the launchpad. And it’s surprisingly easy to be happy, once you know how!

Thank you for this interview, Kanta. Can you tell us a little about yourself and how long you’ve been writing?  Kanta: My Amazon nickname is “The Minister of Art.” This is because I express myself in a variety of ways that all come from the place where creativity and spiritually connect. I write and illustrate spiritual books, paint sacred art, do spiritual coaching and guided meditation, and I create and officiate custom wedding ceremonies. I’ve been writing and making art since I could hold a crayon.

Can you tell us briefly what your book is about? Kanta: It’s about how to shift your state to prosperity consciousness, AKA happiness. It provides a whole toolbox of ways to do that instantly. It also offers a process by which you can add your own personalized tools to your toolbox. And, it gives you techniques to dissolve unhappiness at its roots. All-in-all, it gives you an easy and fun step-by-step for making happiness your new “normal.”

Who is your intended audience?  Have you been able to cross over into other audiences as well? Kanta: I’m a New Thought author (which is a subset of the mind/body/spirit category), so part of my intended audience, is the New Thought community: members of Unity Churches and the Centers for Spiritual Living. I do guest ministry and workshops related to the ideas in this books and I’m happy to say that my books are finding their way into church bookstores.

Yes, I have been able to reach a broad spectrum of readers, as was always my intention. The principle that “happy” is the launchpad for successful outcomes is one that most people understand. So they get excited when they build an “abundance trigger” toolbox to play with. It’s the right thing at the right time.

Why did you choose your particular genre? Kanta: It chose me. We all have something. Some way that our Divine Source expresses through us, as us. For me, it’s ministry through art, writing and my speaking voice. I remember the first time the calling took hold of me, because it went so counter to the painful shyness I suffered as a kid. It happened in the tenth grade. I was sitting in Quaker Meeting for Worship. Something  compelled me to stand and speak. And despite my desire to resist it, it was as if I was lifted up. My mouth was moving and words were coming out. I entered a flow state and the shyness fell away in the moment. Afterwards, I thought, “What just happened?”

Do you ever experience self-doubts with your work? Kanta: Not really. I trust it. I mean, I have my moments. I’m human. But for the most part, no.

Where do you write?  Do you have a favorite place? Kanta: I write at home, mostly. I live in a beautiful, quiet space, surrounded forest and near a river, which I love and for which I’m very thankful. I linger at breakfast at home with a yellow legal pad and make writing notes. Once in a while, I go out for breakfast and jot ideas in a pocket journal. I take my journal on long car trips, too. I get great ideas when I’m driving!

What kind of research did you have to do during the writing process? Kanta: This book is based on personal experience, observation and practice, which over time, I refined and developed. From the age of five, when I began consciously using “abundance triggers” throughout my life, I have continued discover and practice what works. The book shares what I’ve learned so far and will help you do your own research and documentation of what works for you, so you can have a quick go-to, whenever you need or want it.

Who is your publisher and how did you get accepted by them?  Did you pitch your book yourself or go through an agent? Kanta: As most writers know, independent publishing is where most of the energy in publishing is right now. I published it an indie book, via Createspace for the paperback and Kindle Direct Publishing for the digital version. So, my relationship with the reader is direct and intimate and the book is exactly as conceived and intended. I was able to produce it and get it out in a very short timeframe. After hatching it for such a long time, this was very important to me. I’m sure I will continue to publish some of my own books and guided imagery downloads, though there are some projects for which I intend to go the agent/publisher route. I like that it’s a buffet these days.

How are you promoting your book thus far? Kanta: My life and personality is naturally set up to sell books. I’m smiling, but it’s true. I feel passionate about getting “Abundance Triggers” into the hands of readers who can benefit from it. I enjoy engaging with people and I love social media. To me, Facebook is extreme fun. It’s so visual and intimate. The spiritual community is so amazing!

I also tweet, post on Google Plus, publish a newsletter, blog on my websites, guest blog, and have stared going on blog tours (this is my first, and I’m enjoying it). I write magazine articles and am a frequent radio guest. I upload YouTube clips. I’m a columnist at New Thought Families. I speak at churches, present at conferences, and facilitate workshops. I exhibit art at solo and group shows and talk about how to use various types of state-shifting images at universities and in other settings. I maintain an Amazon author page where readers can find all my books, bio, blogs and more. I have a Goodreads author page, as well.  I produce a monthly newsletter. Readers who would like to sign up for this to add themselves on my website. There’s an add form on the left side column of every page. In addition, I’ve published complementary products, The Abundance Triggers Coloring Book (for teens and adults) and guided imagery CD, Abundance Triggers: A Journey of Self-Discovery. I discontinued the CD and will produce it as an Audible audiobook when it’s ready in its new format.

If you could give one book promotion tip to new authors, what would that be? Kanta: Keep a balance between the creative you and the business you. If you want to take your work to those who will enjoy it and benefit from it, you owe it to yourself, your talent, and the Source of that talent to engage with the marketplace. But make sure to set aside time to create. Too much time in the left brain will dry you up and drain your energy. Otherwise, your sense of meaning and purpose gets lost. When and if this happens, it’s your signal to switch gears and let your creative self play.

What’s next for you? Kanta: I’ll have the third another book of sacred love poems, “Twin Flames” out soon. I’m working on the illustrations now. And I’ve got some other projects in line.

Thank you for this interview, Kanta.  Can you tell us where we can find you on the web? Kanta: Sure. Thanks for asking. Main Web: http://KantaBosniak.com Additional: http://abundancetriggers.com Main FB: www.facebook.com/kantabosniak Author FB: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kanta-Bosniak-Author/152295488122486?fref=ts Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3228066.Kanta_Bosniak Booklist, bio, purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/kantabosniak

ABOUT ABUNDANCE TRIGGERS

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ABOUT ABUNDANCE TRIGGERS

1. I think this book should be owned by every person on earth in his or her native tongue. That’s how passionate I am about it. We don’t get an owner’s manual for how to be happy and we should. What could be more important? Maybe learning meditation in an easy doable way that fits your actual life. That’s in there too. Learn this stuff and teach it to your kids!

Mind mastery isn’t just for mountaintop yogis. It’s for everybody. And having enough and more than enough needn’t be for a select few either. It’s your Divine inheritance we’re talking about. It’s waiting for you to claim it. All you want wants you.

2. The book isn’t just about collecting paper money and fancy things. It will certainly help you accomplish and prosper, but it’s not about acquisition for its own sake or lording it over the neighbors. It’s about how to shift yourself, reliably and consistently into prosperity consciousness, instantly any and every time you want. In this state you can create, attract, earn, receive, accept, and enjoy ever so much more easily!

3. I discovered how to use “abundance triggers” at when I was five years old, because the circumstances of my childhood were so difficult that I needed to learn to shift my state in order to cope with what I faced every day. I noticed what worked and began to augment and refine my toolbox as I grew into adolescence. By adulthood, I began teaching others. It continues to be a passion and delight to me to both learn new techniques and teach them through coaching, speaking, workshops and writing. I love sharing tools that can change lives, and do.

4. When you begin reading the book, you can get a benefit right away. It starts with simple and immediate triggers and then moves into more advanced ones later. All doable, all fun.

5. Fun is where it’s at. Really. I once asked a young man coaching client if he was enjoying a recovery group he was involved in. “Is it fun?” I queried.

“Fun?” he said, seemingly puzzled. Clearly it had not occurred to him that personal growth work could be pleasurable, exciting, and entertaining. Me, I think life is for living full-tilt and then some. I believe the path to joy should be, in itself, a joyful one.  If you’re willing to make happiness a new normal, “Abundance Triggers” will offer you a juicy and amusing process for making it so.

Rev. Kanta Bosniak is an artist, writer and minister with over 40 years experience an educator in spiritual growth. She is a frequent speaker at churches, universities and conferences throughout the US. Venues have included Yale, Columbia, SUNY, Virginia Tech, UNCW, Camp LeJeune Midway Center for US Marines, The Association for Research and Enlightenment, Unity Churches, and many more. Kanta is the author of 12 books and 5 audio recordings.  She is listed in Who’s Who in American Women.  For more information, visit http://KantaBosniak.com or call (540) 577-8854

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“Abundance Triggers” Blog Tour, first stop, “My Devotional Thoughts”  http://t.co/9V9xyjzJuj

Excerpt from “Abundance Triggers”:

Introduction

We hear so much about the importance of thinking positive thoughts. Quantum physicists tell us thought creates our reality, as shamans, medicine men, wise women and priests have done for millennia.

OK, we get it. Our bodies respond to chronic emotions by creating chemicals that further habituate these emotions. We form grooves that are hard to jump, and yet jump we must, if we want to begin the task of habituating ourselves to happiness.

But how do we do this? How do we awaken from of the numbness of dulled-down existence to even notice our thoughts, much less direct them? And as we reclaim consciousness, how do we change our living dream experience from semi-nightmare to fully engaged adventure?

There must be tools. And so, there are. My name for them is “abundance triggers.” I have made a lifetime study of how to shift thoughts and the emotions they produce to that good feeling which boosts energy and attracts wonderful experiences.

Abundance triggers serve to remind you who you really are…like a cosmic string tied around your finger. They remind you that you’re loved and they evoke love within you, like pictures of your parent, child or sweetheart. They can take you within, like trance music, or pump you up to clean house, get out the door, and down the road to do the things that are yours to do. They can help you stay on track to do those things.

Of course, it is not them trigger itself that has power to create abundance for you. The trigger is not the worldly abundance you seek, nor is it the state of wholeness and love that you seek on a deeper level.

It’s a reminder that you use to snap yourself out of the unpleasant trance of lack and shift yourself into a more resourceful trance: The Alpha State. That state of joy that athletes, creatives, lovers, and meditators know so well. And so do you, in flashes, moments, in peak experiences and periods of relative peace.

Perhaps you’d like to stretch those moments into how your life simply IS? To let that pleasure expand so that you stay grounded, confident, motivated, willing to receive and enjoy your good? So that you create a new “default state,” habituating yourself to happiness?

You have that power.

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