February 2006, Issue No. 38 ~ Calling All Hearts

Valentines Day can be a tricky holiday depending where you are in life. Whether you're single, in an established relationship, or grieving the death of your special Valentine, this issue offers suggestions, support and tips for the season of love and romance. We hope you'll consider enrolling in one of our courses for self-healing this month. We wish you an openness of heart, mind and spirit.


Blessings for Love & Healing,



June Cook
Self-Healing Expressions (S-HE)

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Feng Shui Your 'Love and Relationship' Corner By Deborah Redfern Red is the celebrated color for hearts, romance, love and Valentine's Day. In feng shui, the color red is associated with the love and relationship area of the bagua. The bagua is an energy map that uses color, shapes and symbols to bring energy to specific areas of your house. Whether you are seeking new love or nurturing an old love, the love and relationship area of the feng shui bagua is an area of... [Read on] Deborah Redfern is the creator and instructor of Healing with Feng Shui and Color.

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A BIG Thank You!
To Laura Hyde for helping us raise awareness about our Fall Writing Contest. Laura offers a monthly newsletter entitled Matters of the Heart. Visit www.laurahyde.com today.

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Grief Healing: Remembering Our Loved Ones on Valentine's Day by Marty Tousley

We've barely made it through the holidays of December and January, and now the stores are filled with hearts and flowers and candy, all of it in celebration of the gift of love. But February 14 can be a difficult day for those of us who are grieving, and for some it will be the first Valentine's Day since our precious Valentine died. For us there is no celebration; there is only grief... (Read on) Marty Tousley is the instructor of The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey and A Different Grief: Coping with Pet Loss.

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Being Fully Present in Your Relationships By Laura V. Hyde In celebration of Valentine's Day notice your relationships, especially those people you're closest to. Are the people in your life a priority or do you allow diversions to keep you from connecting with them? Are you taking time to be fully present when you are... [Read on] Laura V. Hyde is the instructor for the course Dreams for Healing: Using Dreams as a Pathway to the Soul.

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Post Your Wish for Love on the Wishing Wall by Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway ATTN: Spiritual Singles! Make a wish for love here. When you make a wish, you create a relationship between your wish and its fulfillment. You energetically give the wish life and plant the seeds for realizing the wish. You put out an intention for the Universe to respond to. Why not take a moment today and make a wish for a healthy, loving relationship? Remember to be thoughtful, deliberate and specific in your wish making. We invite you to pass this link along to your favorite spiritual singles. Please know we are grateful for this small act of kindness! Rev. Laurie Sue is creator and instructor of Finding Your Spiritual Soul Mate: Transforming Your Romantic Destiny with A Romantic Resumé.

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The Shaman Way: Are Spirit Guides The Same as Totems? By Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls

Spirit guides may or may not also be totem animals. I have a spirit guide who comes to me as a white pelican. I have an elephant who is strictly a totem and not a spirit guide. A spirit guide is a teacher with something to teach you. A totem animal is... [Read on] Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls is the creator and instructor of Discovering the Shaman Healer Within: Apprentice Course, as well as Reiki for Healing: Level I and Reiki for Healing: Level II. Find courses listed here.

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How Our Senses Influence Our Creativity: Vision By Sandra Lee Schubert

According to the dictionary "vision" is "a special sense by which the qualities of an object (as color, luminosity, shape, and size) constituting its appearance are perceived and which is mediated by the eye." What if using this special sense we look at our lives in a new way?... [Read on] Sandra Schubert is the instructor for the course Writing for Life: Creating a Story of Your Own.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS


Writing Contest Update by Sandra Lee Schubert
The last couple of months were exciting ones. We created a writing contest, accepted entries and a panel of four selected judges spent a month reading them. Our winner has been chosen. It is great that 24 people were inspired to write and submit entries. What is more wonderful is that the winner is now invited to spend time writing their life story. Thanks to June and Mike who work so hard behind the scenes to get the contest online. Thank you to our judges, John, Phyllis, David and Don who took the time to carefully read each entry. Enjoy reading the stories by the contest winner and honorable mention. Keep an eye out for the next contest and another opportunity to write.

Writing Contest Winner!
Olga Redko for A Breath of Wind

Honorable Mention
Katy Cloer for The Mind's Ride

New Course coming soon!
Chakra Talk: Listening to Your Inner World by Eileen Dunn. Eileen develops courses for the Holistic Nurses Association

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This Month's Holistic Prayers

A Prayer for Finding Your Soul Mate ©
By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway, author of A Goddess is a Girl's Best Friend

God, Goddess, Divine Spirit of All That Is, thank you for the gift of knowing that love is my birthright. And thank you for this opportunity to discover and pursue my hearts true desire. I call upon the light and love of all the Cosmic Matchmakers, the Spiritual Power that brings true loves together. Please make sure I learn to love myself as you guide me in my quest for love. Please illumine the path with wisdom, grace, love and intelligence, so that I can see my true love in the light of the divine, and begin my relationship with "the right mate." Please hold me in your embrace, that I may safely open my heart. Support me in evoking from within the hero and heroine I once sought from others. Let me write my own true love story... and let my true love help me craft it. I pray that you help me find a love that brings heaven closer to earth. Amen. And so it is.


   


Prayer for Self-Love ©
By Don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Mastery of Love

Today, Creator of the Universe, we ask that you help us to accept ourselves just the way we are, without judgment. Help us to accept our mind the way it is, with all our emotions, our hopes and dreams, our personality, our unique way of being. Help us to accept our body just the way it is, with all its beauty and perfection. Let the love we have for ourselves be so strong that we never again reject ourselves or sabotage our happiness, freedom, and love. From now on, let every action, every reaction, every thought, every emotion, be based on love.

Peace, Love and Light,

Your Friends at Self-Healing Expressions



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