Opening Remarks
As our family excitedly prepares to move this month (to a 50-year-old Cape Cod home in Bucks County, PA), we are faced with the task - or joy - of selecting paint colors for each room in our new home. We naturally turned to Deborah Redfern's
"
Healing with Feng Shui and Color"
course and its nifty Web Tools for help in selecting colors that would both nurture and support us - both individually and as a family. For rooms primarily used by one person, that person selected a color scheme from their 'Elemental Palette' (i.e., Air, Earth, Fire, or Water). And for the common rooms, I picked the color scheme but was mindful of finding mutual qualities in color selections.
Using Feng Shui
took a lot of the guesswork out of this otherwise daunting process.
Colors also abound in nature this month in our part of the world! With Earth Day soon upon us, we decided to feature a wonderful
"
Earth Meditation"
flash show Mike put together (find details below). We hope you enjoy it!
Also this month, we are pleased to announce a
winner for the Writing Contest!
We were grateful for the many entries. We hope you enjoy this issue and that you'll consider enrolling in one of our quality courses for healing.
Blessings for Health and Healing,
June Soyka Cook
Self-Healing Expressions (S-HE)
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Healing with Feng Shui & Color: Featured Healing Color ~ Green
by Deborah Redfern
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Green is the most relaxing, calming and balancing of the colors. It is a symbol of growth, fertility, harmony, hope, optimism, freedom and balance. On the cool end of the spectrum, green brings restfulness and coolness. Associated with the heart chakra, green stands for self love and love of the universe. It is the center overseeing all healing. If you have too little green in your environment, you can be indecisive and unable to relate to others. If you use too much green there is a tendency for your energy be scattered, and it can promote envy. Healing Uses: Green helps to feel...
Read on.
Deborah is a certified Practitioner and Master Teacher of Interior Alignment©. She is the creator and instructor of
Healing with Feng Shui and Color.
Learn how to use colors for healing.
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~*~ Happy Earth Day! (April 22) ~*~
This month's Featured Flash Show: Earth Meditation
Enjoy this inspiring show featuring Native American Indian prayers and
élan Michael's
music. Of course, if so moved, we invite you to pass this link on and on... Know we are grateful for this small act of kindness.
View now.
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New Course Launched!
Reiki for Healing: Level I
by Maggie Wahls, Reiki Master Teacher
You are invited to embrace a remarkable gift of healing, the ability to heal with your hands. The Usui system of Reiki is one of the easiest natural healing systems known today. Learn what Reiki is about and how it works. Receive your Reiki Attunement to permanently open this channel in your life. This course includes many special features, including a Discussions Forum frequently visited by Maggie, printable Reiki hand position forms, audio meditation, and more.
Learn more now.
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practical information on changes now affecting humankind.
Planetary changes and rapid transformation in the Human consciousness are building a pathway to peace. Major changes are happening on Earth. People all over the world are now in awakening mode. Awakening Humans provides practical information and insight on these issues to lighten the load on your journey through life. Visit us now at
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Iceland Flower Essences
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Visit our friend
Kristbjvrg's site.
She makes and sells Icelandic Nature Essences. The Flower Essences contain the essence of Iceland´s unique, unpolluted and unspoiled nature.
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Holistic Prayers: Healing the Mind, Body and Spirit Through Prayer
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Subscribe to this (no fee) uplifting Self-Healing Expressions e-course and get a sense of how our self-paced delivery system works while being inspired by interfaith prayers.
Enroll now.
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Here's What You're Saying About our Courses...
"Great course! Helped me in a direction I knew I was headed but did not know how to proceed. Helped me explore my inner self. An eye opener! Thank you Elder Maggie Wahls!" ~ Jane, Washington
(
Shaman course)
"What a powerful invitation to open to the divine in every moment!… [Lesson 7] brings with it a feeling of being supported, affirmed, encouraged to open more fully to my life's purpose… [Lesson 20] I too feel great gratitude for being offered this opportunity to reconnect to my Christian roots in such an unexpected way - one that nurtures and affirms." ~ Richard McMurtry, California
(
Aramaic Lord's Prayer course)
I thought I had covered most things I was looking for in a mate, but this course made me realise that there was so much I hadn't even considered, that are really important issues.
~ Sue Coulston, Australia
(
Soul Mate course)
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Finding Your Spiritual Soul Mate
By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway
This month's tip:
Know that when you find one another, it will truly be a reunion.
Jewish mysticism offers one of my favorite descriptions of soul lovers. This is from The Zohar, the key doctrine of Cabalistic wisdom: "Each soul and spirit, prior to entering this world, consists of a male and female united into one being. When it descends on earth two parts separate and animate two different bodies. At the time of marriage, the holy One, blessed be He/She, who knows all souls and spirits, unites them again as they were before, and they again constitute one body and one soul, forming as it were the right and left of one individual."
Rev. Laurie Sue is the creator of course
Finding Your Spiritual Soul Mate: Transforming Your Romantic Destiny with A Romantic Resumé.
She is based in NYC.
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The Shaman Way: Creating Your Own Power Song
By Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls
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Power Songs are oral prayers expressing your true self, your nature, your individuality, and YOUR POWER. All cultures have power songs but you can have your own power song too. Think of the power you've experienced while singing or hearing a hymn, an African chant, a Shamanic ceremony song, or in hearing the howling of wolf. There is definite power in sound! All Shamans have power songs because the vibration of...
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Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls is the instructor of the course
Discovering the Shaman Healer Within: Apprentice Course.
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Techniques for Recalling Dreams
By Laura V. Hyde
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This Month's Dream Tip: Dreams of someone who has passed mean:
1) This person is trying to communicate to you through your dream state
2) This person represents an aspect of you that has "died."
3) This person represents something to you from your past (while they were still alive) that is in need of healing.
Laura V. Hyde is the instructor for the course
Dreams for Healing: Using Dreams as a Pathway to the Soul.
Learn more and enjoy a short audio message by Laura
here.
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Dear Marty ~ Teen Coping with Dad's Death
Q & A by Bereavement Counselor Marty Tousley
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Question: I am a 16-year old boy. I found out two nights ago that my father (45 years old) passed away. I just don't know how to tell people how close we were and it's getting to me really bad. I just don't know if I can get through this. Read Marty's response here:
Find Marty's response
here.
Marty Tousley is the creator and instructor of these Self-Healing Expressions courses
The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey
and
A Different Grief: Coping with Pet Loss.
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A Coping Blurb from Art
By Arthur Soissons-Segal, Ph.D. ~ Therapist and Brain Tumor Survivor
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After back surgery to treat a spinal stinosis, I discovered that merriment and silliness are great healing tools. For eight weeks, I lived in a convalescent hospital. Eventually the back pain left and I discovered that I could help myself as well as others laugh. I would stroll in my wheelchair through the corridors singing old time favorites. Eventually other patients and staff joined my silliness and for a few moments, we had fun.
Arthur Soissons-Segal is the instructor of the course
The Joy Of Coping: Overcoming The Stress of Dis-ease.
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Write A Way: Journey to Creativity
Forms, Forms and more forms
By Sandra Lee Schubert
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Daily, we are inundated with forms to fill out. There are forms for taxes, to get married, to join an online group, or to participate in writing contests. While forms can occupy our time, using a form in writing can give our words structure...
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Sandra Schubert is the creator and instructor for the course
Writing for Life: Creating a Story of Your Own.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
~*~ WRITING CONTEST WINNER! ~*~
Self-Healing Expressions congratulates Kenneth W. Bledsoe, winner of its Spring 2005 writing contest! See the
winning entry.
Honorable mention goes to Desba C. Silvers for the story titled:
The Cabin.
A note from Sandra Schubert, instructor of
Writing for Life...
I want to thank everyone who submitted prose to our first writing contest. It was great fun to watch the submissions pour in. I want to thank the judges, John, Don, David and Phyllis who took the time and care to read each submission. Deciding who would win was not an easy task. Every entry is precious for the care and time it took each person to sit down and write. Congratulations to our winner Kenneth W. Bledsoe, who based his story, entitled
Confronting Ghosts, on the cabin photo.
~*~ We appreciate your feedback! ~*~
If you've taken one (or more) of our courses, we would be sooo grateful for your feedback! You can use this easy online
course survey form.
Other S-HE course to check out!
Healing the Environment: Saving the Planet Starts at Home
The Healing Power of Food: Conscious Eating
A Healing Journey with the Aramaic Lord's Prayer
Laughter for the Healing Heart
Discovering Your Life Purpose: Living the Life You Were Born to Live
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Closing Thoughts
~ Namaste ~
Fascinated by Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein watched newsreel after newsreel of Gandhi in India. He was especially intrigued as he watched Gandhi greet people in the street with his hands placed together, as if in prayer, and with a bow. He wondered what Gandhi was saying. Remember, newsreels had no sound in those days. Einstein wrote Gandhi to inquire about what was being said. Gandhi replied, "Namaste." Einstein wrote Gandhi again to ask the meaning of this Hindu word, "Namaste." The reply: "I honour the place in you where the entire universe resides. I honour the place in you of light, love, truth, peace and wisdom. I honour the place in you where, when you are in that place, and I am in that place, we are both one." ~
excerpted from Maggie Wahls'
Reiki I
course.
This Month's Holistic Prayer
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to you -- the two-legged, the four-legged, the wings of the air, and all green things that live.
"You have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other. You have made me cross the good road and road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is holy. Day in, day out, forevermore, you are the life of things."
~ Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Namaste,
Your Friends at Self-Healing Expressions
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