Rev. Mary Lou Cruz, as founding partner in the OjimaLifeWorks, has set an intention to build a spiritually minded community so that others may benefit from her extensive esoteric study.

Her quest to unravel questions like "Who am I?" took her to the writings of René Descartes, Carl Jung, Og Mandino, Victor Frankl, Rollo May, Eric Berne and most importantly James Allen, whose As a Man Thinketh became the base of her belief system.

Circumstances don't create people; people create circumstances, became her motto. In the mid-1970s, she graduated from The Silva Method of self-hypnosis and ESP. About the same time, A Course in Miracles crossed her path and she became a life-long student of its philosophy. She also adopted Gerald Jampolsky's tenets for Attitudinal Healing as a way of life.

She has lived in Puerto Rico and Brazil and is drawn to Native American wisdom, as well as other indigenous belief systems. Hands-on workshops on various healing and spiritual modalities include intensive study with Joan Borysenko, John Perkins, Alberto Villoldo and Barbara Brennan. Currently, Toltec wisdom and the writings of Don Miguel Ruiz and Susan Gregg have magnified her spiritual evolution. She considers The Secret a profound educational tool. Plus, scientific evidence as presented by Lynne McTaggart in The Field, along with other recent quantum physics findings, catapulted her quest for metaphysical Truth to a new level. Others who have greatly influenced her teaching methods include, but are not limited to the following:

• Dan Millman: Peaceful Warrior series

• Debbie Ford: The Shadow Effect

• Chris Prentiss: Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

• Brian Walker: Hua Hu Ching (by Lao Tzu)

"The mind-body connection has been overlooked by many in the mainstream media. When we break it down, life is very simple and everything and everyone respond to the same universal principles. How we respond differently to the same stimuli is determined, for the most part, by our conditioning. Once we become aware and accept that, we start to change and grow. We expand and evolve just like the universe when we allow our minds to unlearn old programming."

If followed, Mary Lou's simple process of Creative MindTalk® can help turn possibilities into probabilities. With a shift in perception, or energy adjustment, people can learn how to consciously cultivate more joy in their lives.

Additionally, Mary Lou is a Master/Teacher of the OjimaReiki system and also incorporates other modalities into her sessions, such as NLP and EFT.