True mastery can be gained
by
letting things go their own way.
– Wayne Dyer
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Friday, 28 September 2012
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Resist
Do not resist the natural
course of your life.
In this way you
will never weary
of this world.
– Wayne
Dyer
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Monday, 24 September 2012
Friday, 21 September 2012
September 21, 2012 Chautauqua
From the Editor's Computer
“This
is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how
you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high
because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of
being depressed, you've got to stand like this.” (Charlie Brown, Peanuts by
Charles M. Schulz)
Are
you concerned about how others are treating you? Look at how you stand or sit.
Do
you slouch and try to hide yourself like a turtle retreating into a protective
shell?
Or
is your head hanging to the ground, like Charlie Brown’s, as if to hide it like
a frightened ostrich?
Perhaps your chin thrust forward, along with your chest, as you puff up
in an attempt to intimidate like a bulldog?
Shape-shifting isn’t a mythical ritual that only special healers can
accomplish. All of us change our shape
(stance) every day, mostly unconsciously.
When
we are happy, we are more open and our movements are more expansive and free.
When
we are with someone we like, we lean in closer like a family pet waiting to be
petted.
On
the other hand, when we feel threatened in any way, we go on the defensive and
our hackles are raised. We hiss and
growl, snarl and attack like a cornered beast.
One
of the easiest ways to make a change in your life and your interactions with
other people, is to change how you stand or sit around them.
Looking people in the eye when you talk to them, and not retreating,
will go a long way to making people approach you in a friendlier manner.
We can all do our best to stand tall, yet
flexible, opening to others, and life around us, as a flower stretches and
opens to the sunshine.
Beth
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Trail
Do not go where the path may
lead;
go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Monday, 17 September 2012
Learning
…that is what learning
is.
You suddenly understand something
you’ve understood all your life,
but in a new way.
– Doris Lessing
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Friday, 14 September 2012
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Opportunity
Opportunity, for most of us,
doesn’t
knock just once;
she raps a continual tattoo on our doors.
The pity is that much of the time
we’re
either too preoccupied to hear
or too lethargic to answer.
– Benjamin F. Fairless
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Monday, 10 September 2012
Grieve
Don’t grieve for what doesn’t
come.
Some things that don’t happen
keep disasters from happening.
– Rumi
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Friday, 7 September 2012
September 7, 2012 Chautauqua
From the Editor's Computer
Life
is a journey, and one aspect of the journey is the healing we do, on all
levels. While I have been reading about
Native traditions and shamanism this past year, I never had an opportunity to
experience any of it first hand, till last month.
Out of the blue, I received a phone call
from Sandra who was hosting a Healing Circle in the Alix area. The shaman was Rosie, White Elk Medicine
Woman, from BC. I was asked to promote
the event in the Chautauqua. I hoped to
attend, but it looked unlikely, till different factors in my life changed, or
details fell into place, freeing up the weekend so I could participate.
I had no idea what to expect the first day
as I entered the wooded site for the Circle.
Led by Rosie, a delightful woman, the group
- though we were all different and at
different stages of our journeys - was exactly the right combination of people
for the weekend to be the successful event it was.
While it was obvious that some were hesitant
to begin with, the energy of the drumming, as it echoed off the trees
surrounding us, loosened the tension, and people started opening up - not only
with Rosie and the others in the circle, but within themselves. It was so delightful to see everyone relax
and start smiling (some beaming and glowing) as tensions and burdens were
breathed through and released.
For those of us who did attended both days,
the experience just got better and better as Rosie shared various insights from
the “Ancestors” on the Other Side.
I am very glad, and thankful, I was able to
attend the Circle and share the experience with everyone else who attended -
the others have shared their insights, which are found on Page A7.
Everything happens for a reason, exactly as
it happens, and the Healing Circle proved that over and over. I would gladly attend another.
But it isn’t just what happened during those
two days, it is what has followed, and is continuing to unfold as each new day
dawns. New/deeper friendships, new
opportunities, new insights, and more.
Beth
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Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Storms
Stormy weather is what
man needs from time
to time
to remind him he's not really
in charge of anything.
- Author Unknown
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Monday, 3 September 2012
Continually
If
we attend continually and promptly
to the little that we can do,
we shall ere
long be surprised
to find how little remains that we cannot do.
- Samuel
Butler
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