About Delia M. Trujillo...

Delia Trujillo has been a student of Eastern and Western spirituality and mysticism for almost thirty years. She is also a seasoned meditator, a certified yoga instructor and teacher with extensive experience in the quest for integrity of body, mind and spirit.
Well into her career as a mathematics and chemistry instructor, she had a spiritual awakening that ultimately led to her opening White Lotus Wellness Institute, the first yoga studio and meditation center in her hometown of Laredo, Texas. She was also the author of a weekly newspaper wellness column for a Laredo newspaper for several years.

At present, she lives in northwest Austin, Texas adjacent to a serene nature preserve where she leads a life predominantly of meditation and prayer. She presents occasional workshops on spirituality and wellness and also weekend meditation retreats. These retreats focus on the renewal of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit of the participants through re-connection with nature.

The Transformation of (Y)our World
Finding Optimism and Serenity during These Difficult Times

Excerpt from the Preface of
The Transformation of (Y)our World
Finding Optimism and Serenity during These Difficult Times

As the years went by, I struggled hard to keep buried a deep sadness about the future of my children, my grandchildren, and all children everywhere. I felt despair about the situation in our country, in the environment, and in the future of our civilization and our planet. I didn’t dare allow myself to imagine what the fate of my children’s grandchildren would be as ecologists began telling us that the time is running out in which we can heal our Mother Earth. . .

At the time I began writing this book, I knew in my heart that you and I and everyone else who is motivated by compassion, yearning, love, intuition, and tenderness would be the ones who would help usher in a new world order and a shift in consciousness that would save and transform our planet.

As I delved deeper into researching and preparing the material for this book, both academically and spiritually, it became clear that there is a planetary shift in consciousness already taking place and has been for several decades. I learned that the old patterns held in the collective consciousness are being released to be healed or transmuted into new patterns more suited for the New Earth that is emerging. The chaos we see in our world—conflicts, environmental predicaments, poverty, starvation, and other social injustices—is a sign that the old order is collapsing and waiting to be transformed into a higher and more perfect world.

Furthermore, as a result of our interconnectedness with our world and with each other, this energy shift and planetary unrest manifests as profound stress and inner turmoil within our own self. We fluctuate between feeling uneasy, overwhelmed and hopeless on one hand with feeling a great urgency that there is something we should “do” on the other hand.

When we permit such negativities as worry, fear, doubt, confusion, frustration, and hatred to overwhelm us, we block this transformational process both for our self and for our planet. At the same time, we attract more negative outcomes and turmoil into our day-to-day life situations. In order to fulfill the role we are being asked to play at this critical time in earth’s history, it is necessary that we be at great peace and respond with love, certainty, and gratitude as we live our life fully in the present moment.

Yes, a new era of peace and enlightenment is dawning. We are not fragmented, anxious, hopeless inhabitants of the third planet from the sun who are at the mercy of the “powers that be” rather we are beings of light and love, vessels of a spark of the Divine, and co-creators of our own destiny. However, we lost all remembrance of this when we incarnated on earth for this life journey. . .

Nevertheless, it is no coincidence that this book has fallen into your hands. You also are a bringer of the light. We are all one, and as you and I reconnect with our divine potential, all our loved ones who have not yet awakened from the trance are lifted up—all life is lifted up. This is why I chose to name this book Transformation of (Y)our World because the individual and the collective transformations are occurring at the same time.

We are the ones we have been waiting for. Let all of us together step-by-step allow our heart to be healed and thereby allow our present reality to be transformed. These are the time we have been waiting for. It is already the eleventh hour. Let us all do our part to hasten the shift to a higher level of consciousness that is healing and transforming our planet.

Table of Contents

Level I
Awakening from the Trance

Chapter One A Balanced Mind and Calm Emotions
A) Attaining a Greater Inner Peace
B) Living in the Now
C) Renewing the Mind and Healing the Heart

Chapter Two What We Focus On We Attract
A) Understanding the Law of Attraction
B) Connecting with Your Inner Wisdom
C) Reprogramming Your Inner Dialogue

Chapter Three Allowing Your Current Reality to Transform
A) Living in Acceptance and Gratitude
B) Transforming Your Relationships
C) Forgiving the Unforgivable

Level II
A Deeper Alignment with the Universe

Chapter Four The Integration of the Body, Mind, Emotions, and Spirit
A) Reconnecting with Nature
B) Creating a Harmonious and Uplifting Environment
C) Implementing a Balanced Lifestyle

Chapter Five Meditation, Contemplation, and Reflection
A) Morning and Evening Meditation
B) Advice for Beginners on the Path
C) Daily Reflections for the Healing of Your Heart and Mind

Chapter Six Wisdom Teachings from Christianity and Buddhism
A) Selected Christian Scripture
B) Buddhism: Introduction to the Four Noble Truths
C) Overview of the Buddhist Eightfold Noble Path

Epilogue Recreating a Better World: The Butterfly Story

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

The following persons have made significant contributions to my life journey and in doing so also to the material in this book:

My former student, Rodrigo Ceballos MD, LAc, who subsequently became my teacher after completing his studies in acupuncture and Chinese medicine. He is the one who introduced me to holistic and natural healing, yoga, meditation, healing herbs, and the benefits of a vegetarian diet. At that time I also began to learn how our body has the magnificent ability to heal and rejuvenate itself if we are in alignment with the laws of nature.

Dr. Oliver Markley, my colleague and spiritual companion, who was my strongest supporter, patient and loving critic, and devil’s advocate as I prepared my manuscript for publication. Moreover, in the time that I have known Oliver, I have been shown by his example what it means to follow the path of the bodhisattva, the way of selfless service and deep compassion.

Dr. Jim Rigby, pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, who not only brought me back to a deeper appreciation of Christianity but also opened my horizons to spiritual activism. Whereas, before I was content to simply meditate and lead a good, law-abiding life, I now understand that it is important to take a stand wherever I see injustice. My voice does count; however, it must not come from a place of anger and hatred, but rather from a place of forgiveness and compassion for everyone concerned.

And lastly, I acknowledge my four children Sara Moctezuma Balli, Javier Moctezuma Jr., Carlos Moctezuma and Roberto Moctezuma, who were already teaching my heart to love deeply and selflessly, even in the months before their birth. As our life journeys unfolded together, they became bringers of the other gifts of the Spirit—joy, peace, patient endurance, kindness, generosity, faith, gentleness, and self-control—and nurtured the growth of these virtues in my own life.