Today is Thursday August 28, 2008 Celtic Tree Month Hazel (Aug 5- Sept 2) Upcoming Sabbat: Mabon/Autumn Equinox Sept 22 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Todays Colors Turquoise, Purple, Green, White, Crimson Todays Trees Pine & Oak Todays Sacred Stones Lapis Lazuli, Turquoise, Sugilite, Amethyst, Todays Herbs Cinnamon, Buttercup, Nutmeg, Musk, Coltsfoot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Moon is in the 4th Qtr. The Lady Resides in Leo ``````````````````````````````````````````````````` Today's Food for Thought Last night as I lay sleeping I dreamt that there was a beehive here inside my heart and the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from all my failures. Machado de Assis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dream Weavers by Dj Brown
Are you a dreamer, of what do you dream?
Sunrise to sunset, rainbows and blue skies to see. Choices. options. a hunger to be free. Maybe you dream of your words written in steam with the very breath you speak into frosty fresh air. Could it be that your dreams belong to the wander lust in you? Do you dream of dancing with the wind or climbing a mountain peak to see the world lying at your feet?
Yes, you are a dreamer, and you and you and you and me too.
The kind of dreaming I'm talking about is not dreaming that beats to the time of a purposeless metronome. I'm talking about dreams of inclusion of all the possibilities waiting deep inside our inner selves - where silence resides - where we are still and peaceful - where awareness is born. I'm talking about dreaming what you love and loving what you dream. There are no rules. We are free to create our dreams to enhance our life purpose, or use our life purpose to enhance our dreams.
Now may be the time to cross the threshold of the ordinary into the golden light to dance with our dreams. Let them rest close to our longing hearts. Encourage them while sleeping and awake. See them written in the sky. Hear them ringing, calling our attention as we take a walk or work in the garden. Nourish them in our daydreams with attention, purpose and love. Honour them in our planning and focus. Dreaming our life and creating from those dreams gives us the advantage of knowing our deepest desires with purpose.
I dream of time measured in eons - rather than lifetimes - where I can watch seasons slip by me to the sea wearing edges off sharp boulders into smooth buttons in the tides. I dream of flying above the treetops, over mountains and finally lifting into the star-sprinkled night. I dream of my life purpose and it encourages me to become even more of what I hope to be. My purpose in this life is love. To live it, give it, recognize it, express it, honour it, enjoy it and create with it. My dreams are my life expressed in loving purpose for the life I was given, mirrored back in gratitude to my Beloved Breath of Life for the Breath-infused Spirit I am. Love is my Spirit's name and it's love I wish to share my final journey home with.
Are you a dreamer, of what do you dream?
Dreamers that we are, we have our moments of illumination, times of fear and grief. We need different-minded space to help balance and centre ourselves with our Higher Self and Spirit. Within our dreams we are able to reach our unaffected manner to help us refocus on what's truly important. Dreaming is the cocoon in which we can safely re-envision our life without outside influence. Clearly in times of transcendence our Spirits call out to us for personal compassion, empathy and love. When we use our dreams to focus and create a better Self we can heal transgressions thrown at us, create a better world. one person. one dream at a time.
Yes you are a dreamer, and you and you and you and me too.
We dreamers of Spirit are the soul of the creative power. We make things happen with intentional purpose for the best possible outcome for all. We dreamers are playful Spirits with a love of Self, others and life. We dreamers are our own best friend, encouraging wonderful dreams. We dreamers are trustful Spirits with open minds and hearts filling up and spilling all over life with our joyful bliss.
Yes you are a dreamer, and you and you and you and me too.
We are all dreamers. We are sisters and brothers of Spirit dreaming our way through life. If we dream it, we can achieve it on our terms, in our time frame, with our sculptured touch shining out to others with a golden light encompassing all it touches. Go ahead dream a little dream, nurture it to life and then dream a new little dream to love and watch it grow.
A mystical curiosity about nature and the ability to paint pictures with words gives this gifted writer, public speaker and artist the ability to serve and share with those she walks her journey with. Dj Brown earned a degree in metaphysical ministry and counselling. She was born a sensitive to spirits and finds her abilities enhanced by her spirit guides and earthly teachers. Dj describes her life goal as one of further developing the tapestry of her spirit to reflect the compassionate, loving Source of her being.
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Today is Wednesday August 27, 2008 Celtic Tree Month of Hazel (Aug 5- Sept 1) Upcoming Sabbat~ Mabon/Autumn Equinox ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Todays Colors White, Topaz, Yellow, Brown Todays Trees Rowan & Hazel Todays Sacred Stones Moss Agate, Aventurine, Hematite, Sodalite, Bloodstone Todays Herbs Sweet Pea, Lavender, Cherry, Jasmine, Fern ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Moon is in the 4th Qtr. The Lady Resides in Cancer The moon is VC from 8:13 pm until 10:51 pm when it enters Leo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's Food for Thought.......... If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. Herman Hesse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How Energy Is Stored As Imprints
By: Ken Page
Any intense emotion, felt at a time of crisis or drama becomes energetically stored within us. Extreme anger or bitterness over a situation, for example, can become trapped inside our psychic space. The event is stored along with an energetic charge by our inner mind. Even though years may pass since the original event, certain words, a touch, or a look may trigger an emotionally charged reaction. As we continue to think about these past, unresolved events and give them our attention and energy, additional feelings of anger and bitterness are generated and added to our stockpile of feelings. Over time, we carry around a whole range of "trigger" patterns overlaid upon our physical being.
One of the most common patterns on my clients is an imprint or pattern around their wrists. What if, in a past life, you were tied up, held, or restrained in some way? This has probably happened to most of us at one time or another. Even if this has not happened to us physically, perhaps there was a time when we felt held back in some way, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually.
For example, the lesson from an imprint on a wrist might likely be an issue of power and control. If we are going to fully learn about power and control, someone will - at some point - come into our lives to test us. Suppose in a past life or event, that someone tied or held our hands in some way. There was probably something they wanted us to do and we chose not to, or something they wanted us to stop doing and we kept doing it anyway. The person or persons responsible for restraining us most likely had highly charged thoughts, projections, and energy around what was happening as well. In such circumstances, we may have reacted by being scared or angry or both. Physically we might have understood what was happening to us, and even to some degree we might have sorted out the reasons on an emotional and mental level; yet the imprint still remains because the issues were never fully resolved.
All hurt is recorded as unfinished business. Stored emotion affects the way we see, feel, and interact with others. Most emotions expressed in this way have a deeper root of fear. Perhaps the base root of all fear is the fear of change. These bits and pieces of unresolved situations draw more and more energy over time, until they may become controlling factors in our lives. If we continue to do this, we may reach our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual limits and begin to experience physical reactions within our bodies, such as tension and disease.
If we have a stored imprint, it means we did not understand the event completely at the time it occurred. Our Higher Self saves everything that happens, including incomplete energetic experiences, for us to look at another time when we may be better able to put all the pieces together. As long as something happened to us that we did not understand completely, we will continue to wear that imprint on our bodies today, no matter where in our history the event occurred.
Spiritually understanding our lessons is often the most difficult. Experiencing pain and fear are clearly not what we originally came to Earth to learn. If we had come in to learn about love, for example, but instead experienced loneliness, heartache, separation, and pain, we might develop a program that subconsciously tells us "To love fully means I will suffer." Until we clearly define and separate our lessons from what we experience, we will continue to confuse our experiences with the lesson, and may hold ourselves back from fully loving or being loved.
Prior to coming to Earth, when we are united with Source, we plan what we are going to learn and teach on Earth. While with Source, we are aligned with the energies of love, compassion, understanding, and clarity.
When we physically come to Earth, we experience diverse energetic events - some of them unpleasant, painful, and shocking. If we were to experience many devastating traumas over one lifetime or a series of lifetimes, the inner mind might decide that if we were to love openly and completely, we might lose our lives, our families, or everything we care about, love, and believe in. In a similar manner, if we were to take our power or do what we truly came to do, we might conclude that something painful or traumatic could happen to us. Once we make such a decision, we begin to subconsciously use some of our energy to hold ourselves back from our full potential.
Ken Page, Heart & Soul Healing, can be reached at 706 219-1319 Email: office@kenpage.com or www.kenpage.com
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Today is Tuesday August 26, 2008 Celtic Tree Month of Hazel (August 5- Sept 1) Upcoming Sabbat Mabon/Autumn Equinox Sept 22 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Todays Colors Red, White, Maroon, Black, Scarlet Todays Trees Cedar, Holly, & Elm Todays Sacred Stones Carnelian, Ruby, Garnet, Bloodstone Todays Herbs Daisy, Thyme, Dragons Blood, Pine, Patchouli, Rose ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Moon is in the 4th Qtr. The Lady Resides in Cancer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's Food For Thought.................. Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction....Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. Leopold Stokowski ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unlimited Thoughts, Unlimited You B Y A U R I E L L A O' N E I L L
YOUR THOUGHTS ARE your most powerful resource and for most people on a conscious level the least used. You have been given the ability to form your life through the thoughts that you think. And if you look at your life, you will find your life to be a reflection of your thoughts and therefore proving this to be true.
There are many thoughts that we can have. There are thoughts of abundance, of lack, of poverty, of wealth, of health, of sickness, of being fat, of being slender, of being safe, of being unsafe, of being a victim, of being in charge, of being afraid, of being brave, of lack of self worth, of having self worth, of being happy, of being sad, and it goes on. These thoughts then form into a feeling and that feeling is then expressed in your life as what you experience. Then when you experience it, you find it to be true because after all you had the experience of it and so form a belief around it. You have more thoughts about what you have experienced, strengthen the feeling about it, believe it even more, and therefore experience it even more. So the cycle continues. A belief is just a thought that you repeatedly think. If you change the thought, you change the feelings and the experience. You break the cycle by changing your thoughts. You set into motion another experience.
We can hold a thought firmly in our minds to attract to us what we desire to have or experience. This is the gift that we have been given. To use our minds to form the thoughts that will form our life as we choose. In doing so, we create in our lives the experiences we choose to have and in our selves the attributes that we wish to possess. It is by holding the thought so steadfastly and with unwavering certainty that we may create anything that we may choose to have, be, do, or experience. This is the key to using your thoughts in a most powerful way. To lock your mind on a thought as intensely as a directed laser beam and to repeatedly think that thought. This is the power behind your thoughts. If you keep changing your mind which is really changing your thoughts then you lose and dilute the power of the thought. But if you passionately hold your focus on a thought, you will feel it become stronger and as it becomes stronger, you are causing that experience to happen in your life.
Thoughts are held on two levels: conscious and subconscious with the unconscious being a sublevel of the conscious. The conscious and unconscious levels are the ones we should pay the most attention to.
The unconscious thoughts are the ones generated many times from outside influences. We take this information into our minds, form a belief around it, and then it becomes part of our thought process. This unconscious thought will then be reflected in our life through experiences or expressed as a conscious belief or thought. If we are not in more awareness of the material that is coming into our minds then we are allowing our thoughts and beliefs to be formed by someone else. We look at a situation in our life and think it to be true when the only real truth about it is that we allowed ourselves to be influenced by the thoughts of others. Unconscious thoughts are also the thoughts running through your mind that you are unconscious of because you have not taken the time to be aware of what is going through your mind.
Consciousness thoughts are ones that we form, of course, consciously. We decide for ourselves what thought or belief we choose to hold about something. But on an even deeper level, it is listening to all the thoughts that go through your mind. Have you ever just listened to what your mind is saying? It would probably amaze you and you may even think where did that thought come from? Well, we may or may not know where it came from, but the decision to be made is whether you want to keep it or do you choose to change it into something that enhances your life in a positive way? As you become more conscious of the thoughts you have, you will then become more aware of the other thoughts and beliefs all around you and therefore choose in a conscious way what you will allow to enter your mind and become your beliefs. It is these conscious thoughts that you focus on that will become that which you see and experience in your life.
Both the conscious and unconscious thoughts are impressed on the subconscious. The subconscious is where the real power comes to create in your life. What is impressed on the subconscious is what is expressed in your life. The subconscious does not make decisions and is impartial to what is imprinted on it. This is where your responsibility comes in. What do you want your subconscious to receive and act upon. An analogy is that the subconscious is like the earth and will grow whatever is planted in it. Do you want to plant seeds of corn or do you want to plant seeds of a poisonous plant like nightshade? Either one will grow in the soil of the subconscious, but the fruit of the plant brought forth will vastly differ. It is up to you to responsibly and consciously plant the seeds for the harvest you wish to enjoy and experience.
Our thoughts are ours to shape and hold. Our mind is the powerful generator of our thoughts. You have been given these wonderful resources to create for your self the life you choose. You are the pianist. Your mind is the piano. The piano keys are your thoughts. How beautiful and creative will the composition of your life be?
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Today is Monday August 25, 2008 Celtic Tree Month of Hazel ( Aug 5- Sept 2 ) Upcoming Sabbat~ Mabon September`22 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Todays Colors White, Silver, Ivory, Lavender, Gray Todays Trees Elder, Willow Todays Sacred Stones Pearl, Moonstone, Quartz Crystal, Fluorite Todays Herbs Honeysuckle, Vervain, Orris Root, African Violet, Myrtle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Moon is in the 4th Qtr The Lady resides in Gemini The Moon is VC from 5:52 pm until 8:18 pm when it enters Cancer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's Food For Thought............. One has to fear everything - or nothing. Jean Giraudoux ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Perception, Perspective, Decision by Marlene Buffa
We look at life through the eyes of our experience. Our basis for our place in the world comes from the manner by which we associate ourselves with respect to others around us and judge how we best fit in the larger scheme of life. We use tools subconsciously and consciously to develop our sense of belonging and adapt our interaction to accommodate what we interpret and determine our true role in life. These mechanisms bring higher meaning to our lives and to others and serve to enlighten our knowledge and understanding of how we function in the world and how the world functions through us.
Perception
W. Clement Stone said, "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Our ideas, our conceptions begin first as fluid thoughts in our minds. We then attach words to these ideas and they evolve into basic concepts. After a concept is formed, we develop a method to visualize these ideas into possibility. Some call this conceiving an "idea" and others may term this process as "perception."
Perception moves beyond mere observation into a keen sense of intuition and wisdom. Perception implies seeing more than actually presents itself as apparent and finding an inter-relationship between what you understand and what you know.
Perspective
Perspective results when we use our perception to integrate new information with what we already know. We balance our opinions against our friends and family and to some extent, or our culture and society to gain a foothold for our position. Depending on where we stand on any given issue, our opinion changes according to our perspective view of the whole concept. Since we experience life differently in our shoes versus another's shoes, our attitudes and insights vary accordingly, as well.
While truisms such as 'both sides of the story' and 'walk a mile in my shoes' offer us hope in understanding the vantage point of opinion, true perspective culminates from lightning fast judgment and experience, sometimes without words. Perspective offers us sanity-moments in a world where we often don't understand how we fit.
Most importantly, our perspective arises only from within ourselves. We can never know the perspective of another person, no matter how eloquently they verbalize it. Perspective originates in the innocence of a child to the world-weary observations of experience and life-lessons.
Decision
We make decisions every moment of the day for the remainder of our lives. Using the tools of perception and perspective, we take a chance on our future by building on our experience and stepping forth into action. Subconsciously, we extract our understanding of where we exist in our world to balance it with where we want to go and derive our actions accordingly.
Sadly, many of us choose to rebel against the "intuition" of our perception and perspective, and forge ahead with what we interpret as logic and sound decision-making, when our "gut feeling" may have served us better instead.
Your decisions affect not only your future, but the future of the world you live in. By engaging in the use of these cognitive tools, your spiritual growth empowers those around you and ultimately raises the resonance of the world. Just pay attention!
Taking a quiet sideways glance at life, Marlene offers insight through her words from experiences. A student of new-thought teachings, Marlene finds practical spirituality around every corner and seeks wisdom through observation of life's inter-relationships. Sometimes playful, sometimes poignant, always thought-provoking, her writing inspires readers in meaningful ways. Her first book entitled "Full Tummy, Empty Bladder, Warm Bed," is now available for purchase. Visit her website at: www.wordsofmind.com
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Today is Friday August 22, 2008 Celtic Tree Month of Hazel (Aug 5- Sept 2) Upcoming Sabbat: Mabon/Autumn Equinox Sept. 22 ======================= Todays Colors Pink, Purple, Coral, White Todays Trees Myrtle, Apple, Birch Todays Sacred Stones Rose Quartz, Pink Tourmaline, Emerald, Peridot, Moonstone Todays Herbs Strawberry, Rose, Heather, Clematis, Vanilla, Sandalwood ======================= The Moon is in the 3rd Qtr The Lady Resides in Taurus The Sun enters Virgo at 2:02 pm ======================= Todays Food For Thought............ Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Rainer Maria Rilke ================================ 7 Things that Sap Your Spiritual Energy
Non-Emotional Spirit Sappers!
by Janice Taylor, Life & Wellness Coach and 50 pound big-time-loser.
Sometimes things get in our way and weigh us down, stop us from moving forward, muck up the works and inadvertently send us to the fridge, and these things may have nothing whatsoever to do with our emotions.
Some of these non-emotional spiritual sappers fall below our conscious radar and are computed by our subconscious. So take a moment to stop, be aware, look around, listen, and take note.
What is seriously sapping your spiritual energy? Your resolve? Your energy?
Our Lady of Weight Loss's Top Seven Things that Sap Your Spiritual Energy
1. CLUTTER silently gnaws, bites, and nibbles away at your calm center as it takes up valuable air and space.
What to do? Clean up, of course! Make order (humans love order). Read "Miracle of Clearing Proportions."
2. LOUD NOISES grate, aggravate, annoy and irritate and can wind you up and drive you mad!
What to do? Wear ear plugs! From $1 to $187.50
3. AIR POLLUTION can negatively impact on our health, cause coughs, burning eyes, breathing problems and even death (which would surely sap spiritual energy).
What to do? True, we have no choice but to breathe, however, we can avoid high-traffic industrialized areas on poor air quality days (my head is spinning that we've created such a planet). Protect yourself and the air you breath!
4. DEHYDRATION dries, shrivels and depresses. Our bodies are more than 75 percent water, our blood is more than 80 percent water, our muscles more than 75 percent water and our brains more than 76 percent water! We NEED water to think!
What to do? Bottoms up, plain and simple. Drink 6 to 8 glasses every day! Our Lady has plenty to say on the topic!
5. WORRYING clutters the mind, drains, takes up valuable thinking time and carries some heavy-duty negative health effects with it.
What to do? Meditate, listen to music, chant!
6. SLEEP DEPRIVATION brings on feelings of irritability, impatience and depression. It weakens the immune system and leaves dark circles on ones eyes.
What to do? Get a good night's rest! (Duh!) Stanford U. has some tips on sleeping!
7. TELEVISION deadens the mind and puts you into a non-active, non-thinking state. You disappear all right, but not in a good way.
What to do? Escape into a book. Or into something interactive that teaches. I highly recommend EdHeads.org. Have FUN!
Spread the word, NOT the icing, Janice
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