In brief...
Trans4mind offers a range of Tools for Transformation to boost your personal development. Here are our recommendations for the best free tools to get you started and making progress ... and we recommend the best tools you can purchase for in-depth learning and achievement. We wish you heartfelt joy as you discover new insights and revelations...

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Use the Life Challenges to find the help and resources you need...
To the newcomer, this site may seem a bit overwhelming at first—there are so many possibilities! You may be asking, "How can I find that one product or service that is most relevant to me?" One way is to focus on those questions you have about your life, that concern you the most... what we call the "Life Challenges."

The blue horizontal menu on the top of most pages at Trans4mind presents life challenges in five categories: Healing Yoursef - Being Successful - Loving Relationships - The Big Questions we ask in life - and Special Solutions for troubling issues. Our free Heart to Heart service is designed to empower you to better meet these challenges. See which life challenge is most appropriate to you. Each "life challenge" leads to a page containing all our recommended tools and services, that are availble either freely or for purchase.

Start with the free Heart to Heart services first. For the selected life challenge, read the questions that were sent to the previous coach Wallace Huey or the new coach Maurice Turmel and their replies. See what you feel is relevant to you and what advice you could apply to your own life. Then read the Quick Coach articles selected for that life challenge and see what you can learn from them. And go on from there with further free Heart to Heart services, including audios, videos and online courses. The following services are available - not every life challenge has all of these services yet but we aim to add them all over time...

Three further sections of the Heart to Heart service are newly contributed by Dr. Maurice Turmel...

• Free Grief Recovery Coaching Service - Maurice uses his huge experience as a grief and loss counselor to provide a free service for Trans4mind readers. Put your question to Maurice and he will answer and publish his coaching response on this section of the site, for yourself and other site visitors to benefit from.

• Coaching for Lightworkers - Maurice Turmel helps Lightworkers (those who have a mission to bring Light to the world) to be grounded in the reality of their humanness, to deal with their personal challenges (e.g. dysfunctional family, chilhood abuse, sexual abuse, feelings of abandonment, defenses and addictions, etc.) so they can truly become clear and deliver the gifts they brought into this world.

• Conscious Evolution ~ A Lightworker's Guide to Personal Growth - the online book by Maurice Turmel presents stories and parables about Souls and their journey through human life. Let these stories be a guide to your truth and help you unravel your unique contribution to the Cosmic Soul.

The Whole Person Handbook
With recession looming we need to make the most of our life skills and develop our inner strength to face the uncertainties ahead. To assist with this, the Trans4mind team - Peter Shepherd and Wallace Huey - present to you a unique, free online training, that helps you solve problems creatively at work, overcome fear and anxiety, deal with stress and overwhelm, overcome anger and frustration, have successful relationships and gain key insights that will help you beat recession, in one complete package...

Read more about the Handbook Master the Challenges of Life With The Whole Person Handbook By Peter Shepherd & Wallace Huey This is the ultimate FREE E-BOOK that will empower you to: Find out which life challenges most need your attention Guide you to the best free Tools for Transformation Give you amazing insights into your life Let you see if you need professional support to master a particular life challenge Guide you to the best professional support where needed

An invitation to share Trans4mind with a friend...       The Trans4mind Buddy Service Choose the kind of buddy you want. Feel supported and excited when you find a buddy with the same life challenges as you have! Communicate by private email initially and then by Skype, instant messaging or telephone when you feel secure. Share what you are learning on the Trans4mind site, from Cultivate Life! ezine, and from The Whole Person Handbook. A safe and secure service - completely free of charge!

The Wisdom of the Woods conveys spiritual Truths through the eyes of a Woodsman. The bulk of this tale is set in the Woodsman’s bedroom where he is visited, as he lies on his deathbed, by members of the community to which he belongs. To the members of the community, the Woodsman is only a simple man who tends the woods and looks after the grounds and to whom they pay little regard. Hearing of his impending ending, each member of the community comes forward to comfort the Woodsman. However each visitor is surprised to discover that the Woodsman is completely without self pity and turns the tables by seeing through to their essence. The Wisdom of the Woods starts with a video, set to music specially created for the story by Steve Wyse. ~ NEW AT TRANS4MIND ~ Learn important Truths inherent in nature Discover how even the most testing of circumstances can be used to advantage Understand what it means to touch, move and inspire everyone you meet Realize the value of “leaving a legacy” The Woodsman coaches his visitors how to go beyond all their difficulties through understanding the lessons and Truths found in nature. The book ends with profound transformation, as the whole community is touched by his passing. By reading this story, you will be given insight into the Truths inherent in nature. Such insight will penetrate your Heart and you will never be the same again! Such is the power of The Wisdom of the Woods. Free online book... The Wisdom of the Woods A Woodsman’s Guide to Enlightenment By Wallace Huey

Note that we are a personal development and coaching site, not a replacement for professional psychotherapy nor psychiatric medical care, so all the tools we offer assume an ability and motivation to help yourself with your issues. 

The Positive Approach
In general, the 30-lesson home-study course called 'The Positive Approach' is an excellent place to start working in a positive way to profoundly help yourself, and I would work through at least the beginning parts of that as thoroughly as you can before paying for any further courses or services. In that way you can prove to yourself that you can make progress with self-directed personal development, and then you can go from success to success with the further appropriate free and paid tools that we suggest. Positive Approach is available freely. I think it's a great way to get going and to judge whether you like the Trans4mind approach to personal development. If you do, then you'll want to do the purchased courses too (that offer unlimited email support).

The first priority...
First thing, we sincerely recommend you subscribe to the free weekly Cultivate Life! ezine, which always has very instructive articles. Along with the ezine you then have access to the Seeds of Self-Knowledge eLibrary. This contains over 200 high quality personal development eBooks to download and read, including the Trans4mind publications. I recommend you then download the Positive Approach course in PDF format from the library, and work through this introductory course in your spare time. There are many benefits to be gained from these first steps... for many people, their life has been transformed for the better!

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Read on for an overview of the site, where we're coming from and what we hope to achieve...

Background to Trans4mind
We've been online for 10 years now and we've built up a large collection of resources to help you in your personal growth - and to move forward on your spiritual path as well. The site was originally formed to publish Peter Shepherd's book Transforming the Mind online. Hence the domain name "trans4mind." Over the years 500,000+ copies have been downloaded.

Each of us is a unique individual - both natively and because we have different experiences, education, upbringing and culture. On our learning path, we may have advanced well in some areas - such as health and wellbeing, communication and relationship skills, mental capacity, emotional maturity, creative and intuitive skills, and spiritual awareness - and we may still have a lot to do in others. So, we each have widely varying needs. We aim to cater for your needs in the range of facilities we offer - either with the courses and products that we have developed ourselves, or those of third parties that we have good experience of and can thoroughly recommend to you.

Trans4mind is run from Peter Shepherd's home, close to the Loire river in the center of France. Peter is English and his wife Nicole is French, so we also have a French version of the site. Because we're a small business, you know who you're dealing with, and you can be sure of our personal care.

Wallace Huey is pictured here with Nicole Shepherd and Peter Shepherd (right), the site's founder and webmaster.

In addition, Wallace Huey from Dublin, Ireland, has for the last several years been voluntarily guiding and helping to develop the site. He's suggested many good new ideas and you see them implemented particularly in all the Heart to Heart services, which are now indeed the heart of the site.

Great Free Resources
Peter Shepherd has summed up his particular eclectic approach to psychology, that he calls "transformational psychology," in the book "Transforming the Mind" which is freely available to download in PDF format from the Free Personal Development eBooks pages. This section contains all the Trans4mind publications and many more informative eBooks in PDF format, for your immediate download and (if you like) printing. They are in categories, with descriptions, so you can quickly find what you need.

When we are actually ourselves, fully conscious and awake to the present moment, not telling ourselves any lies -- in that state the past is actually not affecting us, nor is fear of what the future may bring. Our attention is grounded by the present objective environment, rather than dominated by past memories or future expections. Our vision is not obscured by fears. We can see our situation more clearly, free of the conditioning and assumptionsthat we have been led to base our lives on. And we are free and motivated to achieve exciting new goals that reflect our true inner nature and life purposes. That is the aim of personal growth work.

I'll mention again that a powerful way to accelerate your personal growth is 'The Positive Approach,' a free 30-lesson course that will help you become clearer about your own identity, what you want in life - your life vision - and how to consciously transform your life for the better. You will learn how your beliefs shape your life experience and become aware of exactly how you are creating your reality. Each of these lessons includes a practical element that you can apply during the week, so your life can genuinely start to improve and you make real progress toward manifesting your vision. There's online written materials, a PDF to download, or you can download audio versions of each lesson and replay in iTunes or your MP3 player.

Daring to be Yourself
"Of course, every writer wants to be published in print and I'm happy that finally I have that opportunity. Inkstone Press, in Australia, asked me if they could publish Transforming the Mind, but I really wanted to do something new, and they kindly supported me in that. So I've put together a new book, 'Daring to be Yourself,' that was published on November 1st 2007. Again, it's a summary of all that I've learned to date, a sort of convenient 'best of' the trans4mind site, and includes the Positive Approach and other short courses on the site, like Communication & Relationships, and Emotional Intelligence.

"It's more personal though, talking a bit about my own life experiences, and it expands on the spiritual dimension, how we can get in touch with our inner knowing, our core essence. To find that inner knowing we need to look objectively, honestly and with an open mind, both at the world and even more so, into our own being. To be a witness of our mind, with love and caring of our conscious self. We have then also transcended or gone beyond the conscious mind and found ourselves spiritually. Creating our lives from that viewpoint is an exciting process, because we're no longer alone, we're connected with all creative energy, the universal quality of spirit."—Peter Shepherd

There's more online about the book here:

Daring to be Yourself The aim of the new book, Daring to be Yourself by Peter Shepherd, is to help you achieve a 'wide-awake' state of consciousness, with integrated use of left and right brain abilities, forming the bedrock for breakthroughs in personal consciousness and spiritual insight. The practice is based on the premise that we have learned disabilities that set boundaries to our action and knowing. But no one need accept that they must remain as they were shaped by their hereditary body-mind and by the conditioning of their childhood and culture. This 264-page, $8.95 digital eBook is like a "best of" the Trans4mind site, all brought together for your convenience. But much more than that, it's also an incredibly powerful program for personal growth. Remove the barriers to self-knowledge and reveal your full potential with this step-by-step approach... Daring to be Yourself Our Blog features excerpts from the book plus current news, views and links. "I realize many people use praise in ways that sound frivolous...but I must tell you that your book has changed my life AND I mean that in all ways. I found the entire work wonderfully upbeat, readable and valuable! It really was quite a wakeup call. In the midst of my "trials and tribulations" I had failed to be "me." Anyway, this "talk with you" really did change my life. Thank you! I needed this kind of "kick in the pants." It worked. WOW! You made a huge difference in my world."–Becky, USA A digital copy of Daring to be Yourself is included with purchase of the Start a New Life! home-study course - which is effectively the practical "workbook" that accompanies the book by Peter Shepherd. Working through this course enables you to dare to be yourself and design a brand new life. Expressing your true needs, wants and feelings, you can start to live your life's purpose! After you have purchased the course, Peter Shepherd is available whenever you wish by email, to guide you every step of the way from where you are now, until you are established in a brand new life - the life that you have designed... Start a New Life!

Our Paid Courses
We offer a range of paid home-study courses with full email support. Want to live without worry and frustration? With clarity and insight? Then the 'Start a New Life!' course is for you. Based on the principles described in 'Transforming the Mind,' this course takes you much further, to give you the tools to really turn your life around. This is the best that I know of personal development methods and the course has helped many people profoundly. The course comes with email support directly from Peter Shepherd, and a paperback copy of Daring to be Yourself.

To rediscover your full inner truth you need our 'The Insight Project' course. Using biofeedback monitoring to tap into the wisdom of your emotions - which is the way the Higher Self communicates intuitive knowing - it is the most advanced approach available to aid your personal spiritual discovery, and it will help you to "transcend or rise above" the programming and conditioning of your upbringing and culture, and what you bring with you into the world. Both Nicole and I - plus the many students world-wide of course - have had tremendous insights with these techniques and permanent changes in consciousness that have transformed our lives. We wish the same for you.

This year we are also introducing a range of Mind Development courses, offering state-of-the-art techniques to help individuals open up the pathways of left-right brain communication and achieve their potential mental capacity. In the real world, intellect does matter. They are not so fashionable qualities these days but memory and ability to reason, and having a really sharp and creative mind, are just as important as emotional intelligence and practical skills for doing well in your career. Mind Development students are far better equipped to obtain the goals they want in life and take control of their destiny.

And we offer another very interesting further solution: our own 'Magical Wizard' audio programs, that use NLP techniques to ease you into adopting a new, positive and empowering view in all areas of your life. You just sit back, listen and follow the guided visualizations, and the effect is truly empowering. The sessions provoke deep learning and personal transformation in key areas such as: self-confidence and relaxation, stopping smoking and losing weight, and using the Law of Attraction to create a life of love and prosperity. Formerly only available on CD, they're now also downloadable in the AAC format, ideal for iTunes/iPod use - at lower cost too.

The World of Inspiration CDs
One of the best things we make available is the World of Inspiration 2 CD-ROM Set compilation. It contains all of our publications along with a fantastic collection of personal development and spiritual materials, courses, magazines and complete books - no fluff, it's all really good stuff. These are all conveniently accessible for your offline browsing and study. When you get this you'll be amazed at how much can fit on a CD and just what a wide-ranging collection this is... a complete library, in fact. Over 1200 MB of great info for only $29 including airmail postage worldwide - it's the ideal present for yourself or for someone you care for.

Products We Recommend
And we have a lot of affiliations. In particular we feature a large collection of brilliant writings by Bill Harris, who runs Centerpointe Research Institute and offers perhaps the most important 3rd-party product that we recommend to visitors and our students: The Holosync Solution. It inevitably helps people to become emotionally stable and centered in their body and mind, and this process complements our own courses very well.

For those who need a quick solution to specific personal problems, the Hypnosis Downloads have proven to be very popular and effective. Check out the Tools to Purchase page for our top recommendations and the further Recommended Products page for many other products of all kinds that we have personally had good experience with and are happy to recommend to you.

If you need advice about what your next step should be, or if you have specific questions about what we do, please get in touch and I'll do my best to help.

Featured sites
Trans4mind also includes a range of additional sites which offer a great deal of helpful information and advice. There's something for everyone here! We are proud to host these sites by a group of wonderful people - like 'Clearing the Way' with Ayal Hurst and 'Freeing the Mind' with Ken Ward - who contribute so much by providing these very different approaches. See our Featured sites page for details.

And most important... make sure you are subscribed to the Cultivate Life! magazine. It's free and you can be sure of a good read every week, as well as keeping up to date with the latest at Trans4mind.

We wish you every success in your life and your path ahead.

Interviews
Here are some recent audio recordings in which Peter Shepherd was interviewed, discussing his own life experiences, the background to Trans4mind, plus information about our courses and the resources that the site offers. You'll discover there's lots of good information and tips in these interviews as well. To download the audio, right-click on on the download link and choose to save to your hard disk.

Re-Wiring the Soul - Dr. Gabriella Kortsch interviews Peter Shepherd: Download

Live at the Edge - Dr. Doris Jeanette interviews Peter Shepherd: Download

Life Transformation Course - Anthony Treas interviews Peter Shepherd: Download

EverydayQi Wellness Intensive - Ellen Britt interviews Peter Shepherd: Download

The Responsibility Act - Steve and Monica Donofrio interview Peter Shepherd: Download

Living Your Power - Diane Brandon interviews Peter Shepherd: Download

Cultivate Life! Podcast Several articles each week from the magazine are included in our free weekly Podcast, in audio format downloadable to your computer. A "podcast" is an audio download that you can subscribe to, so you automatically get the latest issue. You can download for free and listen on your iPod on the way to work, in the gym, etc. Or just listen from your computer, record it on cassette for the car, whatever suits you.

You'll find the Cultivate Life! Podcast at LearnOutLoud.com - your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 15,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.

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