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Holistic Expressions, A Self-Healing Expressions Newsletter Issue 91 – June 2010 ~ Rituals for Healing and Well Being By Self-Healing Expressions

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In this Issue
 1) What's Cookin' ~ Opening remarks by June Cook
 2) Feng Shui: How to Create a Home Altar ~ Slide Show with audio
 3) Dear Marty ~ Veterinarian Seeks Ideas for Memorializing Pets
 4) Announcements: Our New Store! Dream Course reformatted/updated! Course for Massage Therapists (10 CEUs)!
 5) Seeing Life through a Cosmic Perspective by Rev. Reed
 6) This Month's Guest Feature: Dreamwork as a Healing Path through Grief & Loss
 7) This Month's Featured Video: TED Talk on Starving Cancer
 8) Comments from you ~ Thanks for writing in!
 9) Things That Make You Go Ommm...
10) This Issue's Holistic Prayer ~ A Tonglen Practice (meditation) for the Gulf Oil Spill
Dear Friend,

During our kitchen renovation several years back, we were getting ready to paint in the days to come. That week, I reviewed Lesson 2 of Reiki Level II course by Reiki Master Teacher Maggie Wahls. I also had a distance attunement by her that month. After reading the lesson, I drew the first Reiki symbol on the walls and over the front door before we painted. Ken, Maria and I also dropped coins in the wealth corner of some newly poured foundation weeks earlier. This notion came from Deborah Redfern's wonderful Feng Shui course. In Rev. Laurie Sue's ebook, Rituals for Love, she features many creative rituals for drawing in love and romance.

Rituals, while taking many forms, can become a deliberate part of our lives and cement intentions for positive events. What are your rituals for healing and well being? See which articles or offering below might support you on your healing journey.

This month, we are pleased to announce a new partnership with our friends at Sounds True, leading publisher of multi-media titles in the fields of health, spirituality, and wellness. Check out our new online store featuring bestselling book, audio, and video titles, with discounts up to 33% off list price. We invite you to browse through the store, including hundreds of samples, for titles by bestselling authors such as Eckhart Tolle, Caroline Myss, Andrew Weil, Neil Douglas-Klotz, and Pema Chodron. Our store is your one-stop shopping experience for guided meditations, healing music, and the highest quality tools for your inner life. We hope you enjoy!

Breathe,

June Cook www.SelfHealingExpressions.com (SHE) www.HealingEbooks.com (HE)

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Happy Summer Solstice!, For NEW subscribers joining us this month, we are offering this complimentary eBooks Feng Shui Your Way to Love and Self Worth.

How to Create a Home Altar ~ Slide Show with audio by Deborah Redfern

A home altar is a visual manifestation of inner intent that gives form to thoughts, ideas, hopes and dreams. It can be made by anyone regardless of their religious, spiritual or personal beliefs. An altar creates a feeling of sacred space in your home, keeping it balanced, clear and infused with your own energy and intentions. There are many types of altars which could represent your goals and dreams, energy you want to send out in the world, the type of relationships you want to attract, your connections to other people, and simply to mediate and still your mind. View this brief show now.

Deborah Redfern is the creator and instructor of these eCourses:

• Healing with Feng Shui and Color
• Dancing with Energy: 9 Steps to Manifesting Your Soul's Desires with Feng Shui

Dear Marty: Veterinarian Seeks Ideas for Memorializing Pets
by Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC

Question: I am a veterinarian and would like to memorialize the pets we have lost in the past year. Does this seem appropriate, and do you have any specific suggestions which could be helpful? I plan to plant a tree and maybe provide a garden stone marker engraved with the lost pet's name, but beyond that I'm open to suggestions. Read Marty's response.

By Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC is the creator and instructor of these grief eCourses:

• The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey
• A Different Grief: Coping with Pet Loss

And these grief eBooks (among others):

• Heartfelt Condolence Letters ~ With Condolence Message Samples
• How To Write a Eulogy: Guidelines & Examples for Paying Tribute to Your Loved One
• Helping Another in Grief

Announcements

• NEW! Store of guided meditations, healing music, and more.
  Visit our new online store featuring bestselling book, audio, and video titles, with discounts up to 33% off list price.
• Dreams for Healing: Using Dreams as a Pathway to the Soul by Laura V. Grace
  This online dream course was newly formatted and updated by Laura this month. This course really gets you dreaming, helps you recall your dreams, and guides you to tap into powerful wisdom from your soul.
• Massage Therapy Home Study Course of self-care techniques (10 CEUs towards recertification), by Richard Adinolfi, Nationally Certified Massage Therapist

Seeing Life through a Cosmic Perspective by Rev. Elizabeth A. Reed, Ph.D.

The noted astronomer Carl Sagan delivered a public lecture in 1994 at his alma mater Cornell University. As part of the presentation, he presented a photo taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 taken when the spacecraft was 4 billion miles from earth. NASA directed Voyager 1 to turn around, "look back" and take photos of the various planets it had "visited" in its mission. Voyager was about to leave the Solar System now that the mission was completed. In the photo, the earth is smaller than one single pixel of the photo. Earth appears as a pale blue dot, an infinitesimal point of light. Moved by this perspective and view of our planet, Sagan gave this speech.

Rev. Elizabeth Reed, Ph.D. is the creator and instructor of these online courses with Neil Douglas-Klotz, Ph.D.:

• Breathing with the Divine Breath: Deep Inner Healing in The Beatitude Way
• A Healing Journey with the Aramaic Lord's Prayer: Reclaiming the Mysticism of Jesus through His Native Language

Dreamwork as a Healing Path Through Grief and Loss by Julie Lange

Within a few weeks of my teenage son Justin's death in 1993, I realized I was in over my head and called a psychologist who had been recommended by a good friend. It was one of the wisest things I've ever done in my life. Even though I had no health insurance then, I took a leap of faith and started seeing Barbara every other Wednesday. She was the kind of therapist that gives you homework and so my inner work continued throughout the time between sessions. One of the tools we used was a dream journal. I had always been fascinated by dreams Read on.

Julie Lange is the author of Life Between Falls: A Travelogue Through Grief and the Unexpected, a book that tells the story of her healing journey from the death of her teenage son into a life of unexpected joy and meaning. Her site is www.lifebetweenfalls.com



Here's What You're Saying About Our Courses...

About Rev. Laurie Sue's Soulmate eCourse
"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

About Linda's Angel eCourse
"I have been receiving this course every morning during my break time at work. Typically I print off the lesson and find a quiet place to read and meditate on the lessons. What a difference it makes to each day. I feel more in touch with myself and with the unseen. I also like the gentle, easy approach to this course. The clock is not running and we are not measuring by the yardstick here. Comforting." ~ Lindsey N., Lebanon

About Shaman Maggie's Reiki Level I eCourse
"I found this course to be a very profound life changing experience. The Reiki I attunement that I received from Maggie Wahls was very powerful. The heat that emanates from my palms since the attunement is really amazing. I used it on my husband and his sinus infection was completely gone over night! I'm beginning the Reiki II class now and know it will be just as wonderful as the first course. Maggie is a truly amazing teacher." ~ Sharon B. Washington, USA

About our Holistic Prayers eCourse
"Soul stirring and just absolutely, amazingly beautiful, not only the 1st one, but all that I have received and read within my heart. Thank you."

About Shaman Maggie's Shaman eCourse
"This course has been most helpful in my journey through grief. It has taught me to connect with my spirit guide and has given me access to a spiritual domain that I did not know was available. The lessons have required taking action, rather than passive waiting. I now look at my life differently, not as bad or wrong, but in 'what's missing'. Each lesson builds on the next and gives me a different perspective to access the spirit world. My beliefs will never be the same." ~ Jeanette Anderson, Arizona

Things That Make You Go Ommm

Summer 2010 Dream Boogie Teleclass with Sark!
Hello you Gorgeous Human Bean! Sark is doing another "Dream Boogie" session this summer! Get ready to put on your boogie shoes and accelerate your dream, business, project, or great idea! You're invited to attend the entire first "Share-And-Tell-A-Class" completely for free -- with absolutely no obligation or any silly strings whatsoever. So if you're undecided about Dream Boogie, or if you simply would just like an inspiring evening for you and your dream --- join us for the teleclass on Wednesday, June 16, at no charge. Learn more now!

Meditation, Meditation, Meditation.
Anyone remotely interested in self-development knows they should do it. But few people actually dedicate the years of strict practice required to truly see the awesome, life-changing benefits. People just can't be bothered. Even when the advantages of meditating for hours each day are well-known and truly profound. Years of meditation can provide dazzling spiritual insights. It helps turbo-charge your IQ. It puts you on a permanent, all-natural life high. It dissolves all of your unwanted emotional baggage, leaving you feeling totally free. Well, scientists have recently discovered a new way of meditating deeper than a zen monk – just by listening to a CD containing "binaural beats." The results have been nothing short of amazing. The research has just been published as The Meditation Program and you can learn more, and even download your own audio version right now, by visiting the official site.

emWave Solution for Enhancing Meditation, Prayer & Self-Help
HeartMath is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on emotional physiology, stress and optimal performance. Their award winning emWave® products offer a drug-free solution to stress, anxiety, depression and more. emWave technology is also used to enhance meditation, prayer, sleep and general well being. With over 18 years of experience and more than 10,000 health professionals recommending their products, they have achieved global recognition for groundbreaking products and services.

Terrific Manifestation Tool!
Studies of wealthy and successful people reveal they own their success in great part due to simply shifting their thinking. Manifesting your dreams does not depend on education, ethnicity, heritage, or environment. Think about it, people from all walks of life have "made it." So what's the secret? Manifesting your dreams is in great part the result of your thinking! Check out this tool to support you with this process now.

Holistic Prayers: Healing the Mind, Body and Spirit Through Prayer
Newly Formatted!
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.


Other Healing eBooks and eCourse to check out this month!

* Discovering the Goddess: A Path to Healing, Spirituality and Joy
* Discovering Your Life Purpose: Two Meditations
* Conscious Earning: A Path to Quadrupling Income in One Year
* Solve Problems in Minutes Anywhere: A Detailed Guide and Workbook

Closing Thoughts


This Issue's Holistic Prayer

A Tonglen Practice (meditation) for the Gulf Oil Spill
When we see photos of suffering birds covered in oil and start feeling depressed about the long term environmental implications of this epic spill, we've taken wisdom from Pema Chodron's talks on Tonglen Practice – a meditation practice for difficult times.





We've been practicing on the spot Tonglen with this intention:

"May all beings be free of suffering; may this event become a path of awakening to all of us."

"May all beings be free of suffering; may this event become a path of awakening to all of us."

"May all beings be free of suffering; may this event become a path of awakening to all of us."

We invite you to join in...


Peace, Love and Light,





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Self-Healing Expressions provides self-paced email courses on holistic topics. Site features guided meditation and healing prayers. Course topics include Dreams for Healing, Romantic Resumé, Grief Healing, Pet Loss, Nutrition, Laugh Therapy, Healing the Earth, More Power to You and more. Its popular (free) Holistic Prayers email course contains interfaith prayers, worldwide prayer vigil announcements and inspiring quotes.