May 2007, Issue 53 ~ Getting Energy to Flow

Sitting at my PC as I began working on this May issue, I looked out my window at the pansies in our flower boxes. A bee flew from flower to flower. Just moments earlier, I read an email (initiated by Shaman Jade Wah'oo Grigori) asking us to collectively give attention and appreciation to the honeybees which are mysteriously disappearing. The bee's prompt arrival in my window box... no coincidence, I thought. So I promptly gave thanks for the honeybees.

Where is your intention flowing this moment? Where would you like energy to flow this month? Towards global healing... towards community healing... towards self-healing? See which articles or healing courses call to you this month.

Breathe, June Cook Self-Healing Expressions (S-HE)

Health Benefits of Honey: 10 Reasons to Beeeee Sweet on Honey Honey contains vitamins, antioxidants, and amino acids. It has similar levels of heart-healthy antioxidants as spinach. One antioxidant called "pinocembrin" is only found in honey. Honey can be beneficial to allergy sufferers. If you eat honey that is local to you, it may prevent your seasonal allergies. Consider that bees pollinate local plants and small bits of that pollen eventually end up in your honey... Read on.

Goddess of the Month: Persephone, Goddess of Spring by Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway Also! Enjoy this excerpt of a CN8 Interview with Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway! In Greek mythology and goddess lore, winter is the dark, cold time of the year because it represents the season that Demeter - goddess of grain - cries over and mourns the loss of her daughter Persephone, who must spend six months of the year in the Underworld. When Demeter is without her daughter, the skies turn dark, the weather is nasty and the crops do not grow. Spring time, however, represents the reemergence of the Goddess Persephone. As the youthful Goddess returns to her mother, the seasons change, flowers blooms, the sun shines upon us all once again, and the earth celebrates her return. Read on. Author Rev. Laurie Sue is creator and instructor of these S-HE courses: Discovering the Goddess: A Path to Healing, Spirituality and Joy AND Finding Your Spiritual Soul Mate: Transforming Your Romantic Destiny with A Romantic Resumé

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Jeni and Mattie Stepanek: The Love between a Mother and Son Goes On By Linda Pendleton A few weeks ago I received an email from Jeni Stepanek, the mother of Mattie Stepanek, an extraordinary child, best-selling poet, philosopher, and peacemaker. She thanked me for my book review of her son's last and final book Just Peace, A Message of Hope. Her message demonstrates how the love between a mother and child continues even after death. Her beautiful message to me, myself a mother, touched me deeply, as deeply as this child's writings have. Jeni wrote to me that she wished... Read on. Linda Pendleton, medium and author, is the creator and instructor of the courses Healing Whispers: Communication with Your Spirit Guides & Angels and Journey to the Heart: Exploring the World of Spirit.

How You Can Pray: It's a Matter of Atmosphere and Resonance By Rev. Elizabeth A. Reed, Ph.D. How can you pray like Jesus prayed? How can you reach a state of communion with the Divine that is even remotely similar to the one Jesus appeared to have with Alaha (the Aramaic word for God meaning "Divine Unity")? No matter what your religious background was or what your present spiritual path now is, we all have a deep yearning to... Read on. Elizabeth A. Reed is the instructor of A Healing Journey with the Aramaic Lord's Prayer: Reclaiming the Mysticism of Jesus through His Native Language, co-created with Neil Douglas-Klotz.

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Dear Marty ~ How Does a Family Know When to Contact Hospice? Q & A by Bereavement Counselor Marty Tousley Question: My mother died this past December and my dad has been in the hospital since mid-December. They are releasing my dad this week and we are searching for a nursing home. Here is my problem: My brother and his wife feel so strongly about getting hospice involved. (They live in another state and are not here to help me.) My question is how do we know when to contact hospice? Can they help us if my dad is in a nursing home? What exactly would they do… Read on.

Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC 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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The Second Reiki Precept By Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls, RMT When you are attuned to Usui Reiki and begin to practice hands on for yourself, you become joined with the universal life energy of healing and wholeness. Each time you bring this powerful healing to mind, you allow it to grow within you. It reaches into our minds and emotions and clears out our doubts, our fears, and our anxieties. It becomes a great column of clearness of vision, of wholeness, of connection to a greater Source. It gives us its power and Read on.

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Laughter Yoga: Laughter and Breath as a Tool for Health and Happiness By Lynn Shaw, Laughter Therapist

My introduction to laughter yoga and laughter clubs began over a decade ago when I began studying therapeutic laughter. As a licensed mental health professional, I was drawn to the concept of utilizing laughter, not humor, in a wellness and clinical setting. After immersing myself into the study and application of laughter as therapy, I was hooked. I was seeing the benefits of laughing with stress, laughing with pain, laughing energetically. And then my studies drew me into the path of Steve Wilson, Ph.D. and Dr. Madan Kataria from India who is credited as the founder of Laughter Yoga... Read on. Lynn Shaw is the creator and instructor of the Self-Healing Expressions course Laughter for the Healing Heart.

Clearing Negativity: Who You Were By Melanie Votaw Jan worked as a secretary for many years and complained constantly to anyone who would listen about how much she disliked her job and how much she really wanted to be an actress. It took a lot of energy to hate her life so much, and Jan came home from work every night too tired to study or go to auditions. When she finally began to work on clearing her negativity, she not only had the energy to study, but her boss allowed her to... Read on. Melanie Votaw is the instructor for the course Discovering Your Life Purpose: Living the Life You Were Born to Live.

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This Month's Holistic Prayer

Gratitude Meditation ~ Honoring the Bees

"In whatever manner you are personally able, move your awareness into that of appreciation. Perhaps meditate upon someone for whom you have appreciation and gratitude, an event that stimulates a sense of deep gratitude.

When this is a felt-sense, a palpable experience within your body, disengage the object of your appreciation (the person or event) so that you remain in a non-attached state of appreciation. Draw into this state the image of honeybees.

Now bring in an association of how they sound, their buzzing about, their beauty and grace, the wonders of honey as a food and as a wonderful sweetener of life! Feel that joy rushing through your body as you contemplate the honeybee. Hold your awareness of Honeybees in this state of appreciation. Do so for as long as is 'right' for you.

When you are ready to stop, forcefully blow your breath into the image of the honeybee. This breath of life, sent in appreciation carries with it all your desire for blessing and positive life empowerment to be carried forth to the honeybee species."

~ Shaman Jade Wah'oo Grigori


   

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