July 30, 2024
Tapping Into the Power Within:
Your Journey to Empowered Success
Conrad Toner
Aviva Publishing (2024)
ISBN: 978-1779620606
New Book Teaches Listening to Our Inner Guidance
Conrad Toner’s new book Tapping Into the Power Within: Your Journey to Empowered Success starts with a powerful opening sentence: “We all know better than to spend our time living in fear, but too many of us do exactly that every single day as if there were no alternative.” Toner then goes on to state, “None of us should be living in pain. We were not put on this earth to suffer.” However, many of us have been taught to suffer and live in fear by religion, the mainstream media, and our families, schools, and environment. Toner knows it’s time to change that, and that change can happen by changing our thoughts first.
Toner compares changing our thoughts to learning to ride a bicycle. He recalls that no matter how many times he fell off his bike when he first learned to ride, he was determined to get back on and try again. By staying focused on the process, he achieved the balance and success needed. The same is true with our thoughts. If we make a conscious effort to change them, and we persevere and stay focused, despite setbacks, in time we will succeed, and that change will open up new possibilities for us.
In time, before retiring, Toner went on to have a successful career as a life coach who helped others achieve the clarity and happiness he found, but his life started out very differently. He was born and raised on a farm in Grand Falls, New Brunswick. Although he attended university, he disagreed with his professors and left before graduating. Soon after, when he accompanied his brother on a missionary trip to South America, Toner’s eyes were opened to what life was like in Third World countries. When he returned home, he decided to take over the family farm, believing growing food was important since there was so much poverty and hunger in the world.
Toner was a farmer for more than thirty years before he retired and then decided to go back to university. That was when he truly had his awakening. He studied leadership and philosophy, and he didn’t quit studying even after he graduated. He remained open to learning, and soon after, he discovered the Law of Attraction.
Toner details many parts of his life story in these pages, but his purpose is to illustrate how his readers can benefit from what he learned and make positive life changes for themselves. One of the book’s most powerful moments for me was when the National Farmers Union and Canadian Universities Overseas (CUSO) asked him to go to Nicaragua to help the farmers there. On that trip, he met a young man who had lost both his legs during the recent civil war. Toner was amazed that the young man was still alive. The man explained that he had survived not because of the minimal medical care he had received but because he believed he still had a purpose in life. His goal was “to free my children’s children” (to free future generations of Nicaraguans). And to accomplish that, given the meager resources available, he, in effect, had to heal himself. Toner was incredibly moved by this man’s words, which forever made him understand the importance of knowing your purpose in life.
Toner goes on to discuss how that young man had so little yet had discovered the secret to happiness. By comparison, so many of us in the Western World have so much yet are still miserable. Abundance is everywhere for us, but we fail to appreciate it. For example, he notes that more than half of the food grown in Canada is wasted. There is enough for everyone if we just learn to share. And even when we do not have enough, we can be happy.
Ultimately, Toner reveals that we are responsible for our own happiness. He cites many famous thinkers from Norman Vincent Peale to Abraham-Hicks and also his own mother who have all said that no one can make us happy except ourselves. To become happy, we have to develop new thought patterns. Toner offers several practical exercises for doing this, such as recognizing the abundance around us, making lists of what makes us happy, and keeping a list of our accomplishments to give us a lift when needed. Each chapter also ends with reflection questions to help us think further on and apply what we have learned in the chapters.
The book itself is divided into twenty-one short chapters on various topics related to changing our thoughts and tapping into our inner power. Topics include why we are here, how to control fear, how to use the Law of Attraction, a better understanding of the power of words, and how our subconscious and conscious minds work. One of my favorite subjects was Toner’s discussion of the difference between Third, Fourth, and Fifth Dimension living. Most of us live in the Third Dimension, but Toner shows us how to transcend to the Fifth.
Nor does Toner hold back the punches. He encourages us to question everything rather than just believe what the mainstream media tells us. He raises questions about the information we are given about topics like politics, pollution, and climate change. He makes an excellent point that the biggest threat to our environment is war and all the money wasted on military equipment that quickly becomes outdated and is then discarded to pollute our world. Toner emphasizes that war is about competition and fear of lack. Instead, he advocates sharing and believing in abundance. He illustrates this point with the wonderful story of an anthropologist who made up a game for a group of children from an African tribe. He told them whoever reached a basket of fruit first could have it. The children walked together to the fruit so they reached it at the same time and divided it equally. They told the anthropologist none of them could be happy if anyone of them was unhappy. We should all be so wise.
Tapping Into the Power Within is full of similar inspiring stories, wise advice, and practical tools so you can move into Fifth Dimension living, experiencing daily joy and peace, and spreading it to the world. I really enjoyed my journey with Conrad Toner and, more importantly, my journey to becoming more aligned with what I want and who I am. I trust you will enjoy the same experience when you read this book.
For more information about Conrad Toner and Tapping Into the Power Within, visit Amazon.
— Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD and award-winning author of Odin’s Eye: A Marquette Time Travel Novel
