It is long but very thought provoking, eye opening, scary and hopeful if you read all the way to the last two paragraphs! Lots of food for thought in the comment section as well. What do YOU think?

http://www.realitysandwich.com/gulf_oil_spill_unfolding_prophecy

Strengthen Your Art of Allowing
Balance, Health and Wellness Retreat 
June 4-6, 2010
Sandy Island Camp 
Lake Winnipesaukee, NH  

“Elements of Enlightenment is a grassroots organization of conscious souls, raising awareness of the many dimensions of healing.”

Live on purpose
Create conscious communities
Leave this world a better place
-Elements of Enlightenment 

 Imagine spending three scrumptiously self-ful days on a beautiful island nourishing your soul, replenishing your spirit, reclaiming inner balance and discovering your authentic self. Meet new like-minded friends in workshops, over delicious meals or simply relaxing to the sounds of the lapping waters of Lake Winnipesaukee, all while enhancing your spiritual tools to move forward on your purposeful path.

Event Description: 3 day, 2 night retreat on the private, secluded Sandy Island YMCA Camp on Lake Winnipesaukee with workshops, speakers, and recreation activities designed to help you return and embrace your authentic self.  You will have three workshop opportunities to learn from.

Karen and Peg will be presenting

 Subtle Energy: 8 Keys to Unlocking Your Art of Allowing.

 There will be many other workshops to choose from as well that will provide you with new tools to live on purpose from the ease and flow that is the center of YOU!   

For complete description and details go to:  http://www.elementsofenlightenment.com/

 Join us on Monday at 10 A.M. when we will be talking with Debby Hoffman Adair about this topic. Debby will be sharing her experience and expertise in regards to transitioning through major changes in our lives.

 Debby is an award winning presenter, and the president of Positive Results Seminars. Her programs reflect her mission statement: to help people see the possibilities within themselves and create the results they want—Positive Results! Her programs are filled with information, motivation, inspiration, and of course—Fun!

 We hope you will join us as Debby shares how she reinvented herself from house wife to entrepreneur, overcame shyness, conquered her fear of public speaking, and transformed herself into a professional speaker and author.

If you cannot join us live, please listen to the recording at your leisure.

Belief, concentration, focus and desire are the basics. Wrap them in any package you want. You get to choose based on what feels right to you. A philosophy or belief system has to be able to be of service to you – all of you: body, mind and spirit.

Two questions to keep foremost in your mind re: a belief:

1. Does it work for you?
2. Does it feel like Truth in the deepest place in your heart?

 Our opinion is that we are here to become conscious creators and need to learn the laws of the universe and how to use them in a heart centered way for the benefit of all. There are individual paths that we each take in that journey. We are always learning so we can improve our power and skill. Negative experiences are best viewed as contrast and feedback regarding what we need to master next!

 There are universal laws that define how things work – not laws that we must obey but principles that we need to embrace, embody and put into action. We have been speaking about these principles throughout this 12 Keys series.

 We each have strengths, areas where we do not need much development, and weaknesses, where we are not as adept. When we think about the concept of purpose, it is easy to fall into inner struggle and try very hard to figure out where we should be and what we should be doing. Instead, understanding our personal purpose requires that we be still, go within and sense the feeling of things so we can know our truth and the best way to express ourselves in the world.

 Personal purpose is not so much about assuming a specific role or being in a particular place. It is more about a state of being … about developing soul qualities to bring to the world through following a path that best suits you.

 Being open to releasing the obstacles that block your ability to express your own clear strong soul tone – your true Self – is a major step forward. Use the tools we have presented in this series to do just that! Skipping over this step will only impede progress toward the creation of the life you want to live. We must practice the techniques in order to embody our best selves/authentic selves/essential nature, not just absorb theory.

Excerpt from LIVING ENERGY Session 12 12-6

 When you hear the words “personal power, “what comes to your mind? When we have asked that question in our classes we hear responses like:

1.  Presence
2.  Balance
3.  Choice
4.  Being present
5.  Knowing
6.  Happiness
7.  Inner Peace

 These answers bring up another question for exploration: does personal power come from having these feelings or are these feelings an outgrowth of embodying the essence of personal power in your core?

 What is necessary to bring a creative style to your life and to cultivate it?

 Do you have a space of your own where you nurture your creative nature and drive? How can you create one?

 Do you have the physical energy to fuel and birth your creative output? If not, what needs to happen to build that energy?

 Do you have the emotional energy – the passion – to fuel and develop your creativity? What needs to happen so this can develop?

 Do you take the time to nurture your soul, the place where creativity originates? How can you decide to change this and make time to breathe soul into your life?

We are all aware that there is a cycle of growth and change, but we typically do not pay a lot of attention to where we may be within the cycle. The result is that we are not in sync; we are out of rhythm with ourselves, our lives and with the natural timing of all the cycles of which we are a part.

If we pay attention to this natural process and where we are within it, we can become more efficient, patient, and remain healthier as we cut down on frustration and pushing rocks up hills.

Becoming Aware of the Creative Cycle

1.  When you are thinking about creating something new in your life, do you treat it as a creative process and consciously use stage-appropriate methods and tools?

 2. How would your response to change and transitioning from one phase of life to another be different if you honored these cycles within your life?

3.  How would your approach to consciously creating your life change if you incorporated awareness about the stage you were in?

4.  Do you nurture creativity in general in your life?

In the next post we will explore some questions that can take you deeper into looking at how you can approach life with more creative awareness. These more specific questions can help you to gain a deeper insight into your patterns.

What is 2012 about? Change. Lots of it. It is already happening actually and will continue on past the touted date of 12/21/12. So what does it mean for humanity? What does it mean for you? How will you be challenged? How can you rise to the challenges? As we move toward 2012 it is helpful to understand the great transition that is underway and know what is required to rise to these challenges.

Join Peg Donahue, Karen Kallie and Tony Pace for this lively discussion.

Click here to listen live or download the recording:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/living-energy-works

To Call-in to the show: (347) 843-4148

In our culture the word surrender is loaded with negative connotations, such as giving up, wimping out, being weak, unable to cut it. However, surrender in the context that we are using it is a deep feeling of letting go of struggle and conflict: it is about accepting what is in the moment, not fighting it – accepting the reality even as we seek to see what can be done to change or move beyond it.

 Surrender helps to bring your heart into coherence through the inner peace and calm it generates. To truly surrender we need to let go of wanting, yearning, wishing, needing and directing. When we are in these states, our focus is on what we feel we don’t have. We are in a vibration of lack or scarcity. Sometimes we become stuck and even paralyzed by these feelings.

Since our energy reflects our inner state, it is stuck, paralyzed, not moving, so it holds us in place rather than moving freely so it can be channeled in a stronger, more positive direction.

 When our focus is on what is missing from our lives, we create more of what we feel we don’t have. We create more of what is missing. Developing an attitude of acceptance – acceptance of the way things ARE – enables you to move beyond patterns of resistance and bring peace to your heart. Acceptance does not mean that something or someone is right or wrong. Acceptance is acknowledging things just the way they are now. It’s just allowing them to be, without judgment. Judgments tear at our energy and do us much more harm than the person, place or thing that we are judging.