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06 Nov 2015
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Featured Artist – November – Samuel Farrand

In The Words of Sam

“All of my creations are an attempt to illustrate the layers that make up consciousness as I perceive it to be. I like to start all my work off with a black background; to me it represents the space of unbound infinte potential. This space is talked about in many religious beliefs and creation myths from around the world and is what is commonly referred to as “the void” or “clear light”. When I create from this clear light it allows me to enter into a deep sacred space where I can attune to the subtle energy and vibrations of the world around us and most importantly that which is within us. Some of the dominant reoccurring themes that I enjoy creating are expressions of ancient and contemporary culture, geometry, divine proportion, spirituality, architecture, symbolism and nature. Creating in this fashion is a spiritual experience for me and often times produces the feelings of bliss, excitement, wonder and nostalgia; it is my hope as the artist that my art can help evoke the same feelings for you and also offer a similar spiritual experience.”

“In every piece of art that I create I strive to bring to you timelessness, nostalgia, wonder, introspection and pure imagination. For me creating art is a spiritual experience, it allows me to attune to the subtle energy and vibrations of the world around us and that which is within us. I aim to focus my art on that which is progressive and perpetual and that which empowers and inspires. It is my hope as an artist that people of all ages and all walks of life, cultural background, and all religion can find enjoyment in my work and that my art can help people see the common thread that links us as human beings, after all I am you, and you are me or as the Mayan’s would say In Lak’ech ala K’in”

Life (Consciousness) I believe is a miracle. So many facets of life inspires me to want to create art what I personally enjoy dpeciting in my work are visions of ancient and contemporary culture, dreamscapes, geometry, love, indidvidual spirituality, architecture, symbolism, space and nature. I feel like everyone can relate to all those things so I choose those to be dominant reoccuring themes in my work. It is my hope as an artist that my visions fascinates you and brings to you feelings of bliss, wonder and nostalgia. Thank You for taking the time to read this, I have many more art pieces in my archive that needs to be added so make sure you come back often to see what is new!

Beginnings

Sam started exploring the digital medium in 2002 after he first discovered Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and then in 2004 shortly after he discovered Adobe Illustrator he decided to adopt the digital medium as a means of creative expression. His early works had hints of inspiration by artists such as MC Escher, Victor Moscoso, Wes Wilson and Salvador Dali. In 2008 Sam took his art further and enrolled into Chester College a private art school located outside of Manchester, NH where he would pursue his BA in Graphic Design

Education

Sam studied at Chester college where he endured brutal critiques and intensive classes in art and design history and theory. Having been educated in art history, Sam was able to come up with his own unique artistic style. Drawing his inspiration from ancient and contemporary culture, sacred geometry, spirituality, fantasy and nature. Sam weaves his inspirations by representing them through patterns rooted in fractal, recursive or logarithmic mathematics. He has developed the technical skill to weave several inspiring thoughts into one another so that in the end what lies before the viewer is a complex composition that resembles a dreamscape in which fantastical imagery, geometry and vivid colors are interwoven with one another.

Professional Career

Sam launched his work publicly at his successful art opening “Resonance” in Spring of 2012. After 3 weeks of his art opening Sam’s work went national. From that he had the good fortune of having his second show one week later at an event in San Francisco, which was put on by famous visionary artist Alex Grey. The following week his work would be shown in Los Angeles. In Fall of 2012 Sam curated and directed his first art gallery in Boston featuring several upcoming and established national and international visionary artists. 2013 showed a lot of promise for Sam when he was invited to show case his work to an audience of over 10,000 people on New Years Eve in Berlin, Germany. 2 months later his video project “Sacred Energy Aumetry” (SEA) was performed live for the first time in Mexico City at an international VJ conference presented by his video co-creator Nexus Visions (Ferdinand Real). The video taken from that performance went viral on youtube and received over 68,000 views in just a few days. Since then Sam has shown his work at over 25 major Music and Arts festivals from all over the US, as well as making a presence at a handful of international festivals, this large exposure of his work has helped Sam establish a world wide audience.

Sam has done commissioned graphic design work at a international level and has been the senior designer on several branding projects across the globe as well as Senior Designer/Art Director for several major Music and Arts Festivals across the North Eastern United States. He works with many of the most respected long-standing organizations in his Industry and has designed almost every product imaginable from designer bed sets, hats, and fashion tees to accessories, holograms and hydration paks.

As 2015 begins, Sam has already been booked to exhibit at 8 Major Music and Arts Festivals across North America and has had his art featured on Fox News gracing the cover of Best-Selling author, Chris Kilham’s newest book. Having and maintaining a strong background in art and design history he continues to strive to redefine what it means to be a graphic designer and digital artist in the 21st century and is eager to challenge the rules that conventional graphic design and art theory and principles has to offer. To find out and learn more about Sam’s latest projects and his involvement be sure to visit his website samuelfarrand.com

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05 Nov 2015
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DOCUMENTARY OF THE MONTH – November – HUMAN

What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh ? Cry ? Our curiosity ? The quest for discovery ?
Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from 2,000 women and men in 60 countries. Working with a dedicated team of translators, journalists and cameramen, Yann captures deeply personal and emotional accounts of topics that unite us all; struggles with poverty, war, homophobia, and the future of our planet mixed with moments of love and happiness.

The VOL.1 deals with the themes of love, women, work and poverty.

The VOL.2 deals with the themes of war, forgiving, homosexuality, family and life after death.

The VOL.3 deals with the themes of happiness, education, disability, immigration, corruption and the meaning of life.

The inspiration for this film started a few years ago for filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand, when his helicopter broke down in a rural part of Mali. While he was waiting for his helicopter to get fixed, he spent a day with a local farmer, talking about the farmer’s hopes, concerns, priorities, and examining the basic questions about life that transcend all cultures. It was the first time the filmmaker threw himself into the experience of someone else from a completely different part of the world. Fast forward, with the help of Google, the United Nations, and 2020 everyday people around the world, Arthus-Bertrand is bringing his experience to all of us. HUMAN has become the first film to premeire at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. It premeired to an audience of over 1,000 people, including U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

During the film’s creation, Arthus-Bertrand interviewed 2,020 people in 60 countries with his team of 16 journalists. Every interview comprised of the same 40 questions, discussing heavy subjects from religion and family to ambition and failure.

The visual elements of the film include single-frame interviews with a black backdrop, interspersed with signature sweeping shots of deserts and mountains which Arthus-Bertrand is known for, all of which is blended with a soundtrack of Armand Amar composed world music. The filmmaker’s intention was to portray the world through three voices: people, landscape, and traditional music.

“Getting at the heart of what it means to be a human can be a little heavy” Arthus-Bertrand

04 Nov 2015
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Awakening Abundance

The concept of all-sufficiency was an essential knowing in all ancient teachings of self-knowledge. The ancients understood that knowing oneself meant knowing that the divine energy that creates worlds, exists within each of us and can manifest any vision held in our consciousness. Students of the mysteries were initiated into the teachings of magnetic powers or what many have to come refer to as, the laws of attraction. By working with these divine unseen forces once could magnetize or call forth whatever was needed to be used for good will. Thus money as an exchange was a token of integrity and inner harmony. Christ said, but if you will not know yourself then you will dwell in poverty and it is you who is that poverty. These esoteric teachings speak to our ability to transform vision into form. Knowledge of thought form energy and the Spirit of creation were combined as the primary principles of manifestation.

A shift in consciousness began shortly after, where the awareness of the innate powers of the individual were censored and attacked and the dogma of outer authority entered. During these Dark Ages, institutions assumed control over independent thinking and creative expression. Members of secret societies who understood the sacred teachings were known to transcend the limitations of the physical world through spiritual awakening and the dedication to freedom, love, truth, wisdom and service. With the transcendental movement, esoteric teachings and mysteries again blossomed and unfolded in waves. Yet we are only just beginning again to understand the messages of infinite abundance and boundless wealth that is our divine birthright.

But this, I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give not grudgingly, or of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.

—Corinthians

Many spiritualists may believe that a conversation about wealth has no place on a spiritual path. Yet the earliest teachings clearly state that denying the wealth of creation would be denying oneself, as we are the individual expression of the richness of the universe. These are the key messages that we each have to learn in order to tap into the highest potential of our path. These fundamental truths can free us from any perceived lack or limitation be it circumstance, experience or person that seems to standing on our way and create a world full of miracles. The outer world of form is simply the reflection of our inner world of thoughts, beliefs, ideas, and feelings. Our own consciousness determines the outcome. Do you have any limiting beliefs about abundance and prosperity? Do you have beliefs that tell you that wealth is bad or that only certain people deserve wealth? These beliefs will play a major role in your ability to either block or allow the flow of abundance to show up in your experiences.

There is a presence that exists within each of us. The greater our awareness of this presence and the more we are able to honor it, the greater the presence will fill us with divine light. The more pure our intention and aligned with the divine will, the more we will be able to receive abundantly. Our imagination is the tool that the universal mind uses to draw potential possibilities into our physical mind. Our gut offers us hunches as way of translating ideas of what can be brought forth. The brain is capable of both transmitting and receiving energy in the form of ideas. These ideas are always gently directing us towards the ways we are able to use this creative energy.

The Source within is always aligned with abundance as its true nature. The creative energy of this abundance is always flowing and seeking to appear in the world of form. This flow is expressed through us as the channel filtered through our dominant thoughts and beliefs which color the expression. The form the creative energy takes is the effect. When the flow is uninterrupted it can be made manifest in infinite possibilities. By focusing on the outer expression of the creative forces however we direct our attention away from the true source and we give the material form (effect) our power. We must always be aware of the source of all outward expression as this keeps the door open and the inspiration flowing, otherwise we cut off the flow. Each soul must learn this in one lifetime or another. Otherwise we will keep creating apparent lack and limitation. In other words, this entire experience is an illusion, a hologram or as Alan Watts referred to it, a weaving of smoke. We must not give our power to the illusion or else we cut off the source of our ability to create and cause a separation from the consciousness of the Source within. Turn your focus inward away from the outer drama and reconnect with the divine flow that exists within each of us. Recognize that you are Gods highest creation.

Spiritual Practices for tuning into abundance.

Declaration:
I release my attachment to the outer world of form and view the material world as the effect of my inner beliefs, thoughts, and feelings.

Affirmation:
I accept that abundance is my natural state of being.
I am abundantly provided for as I follow my heart’s desire and my intuition.
I am always supplied with whatever I need, whenever I need it.
I am an open channel for receiving limitless abundance.
The abundance of the universe flows into this world through me.
I am consciously tuning in to the abundance around me.
I am open to receiving the abundance of life.
I believe in the infinite boundless abundance of the universe.
I now have all the resources I need to create unlimited wealth and abundance in my life.
Today I reclaim the abundance that is my divine birthright.
With every breath I take I am drawing more abundance into my life.

Cultivating your energy field:
Your thoughts, ideas, beliefs and feelings about abundance and prosperity will likely need to be refined or reprogrammed. Many of us are still carrying the energy of experiences that were created from the transmission of limited thoughts and beliefs that reflect the lack consciousness of our current society. We all have a long list of should’s and shouldn’ts and thus the emotions associated with these unfavored outcomes may be stuck in our electromagnetic field. This energy continues to draw more of those experiences to us like a magnet. When your mind worries incessantly about negative thoughts allow let them pass by like clouds. Declare: I am willing to let go of the energy of the pattern that created this experience.

With higher vibrational thinking we are naturally able see more situations in our life with possible positive outcomes. We can become aware of these thoughts and replace them individually with the use of affirmations. Instead of thinking of wealth as evil, greedy, selfish or exploitative, tune into the spiritual expression of wealth such as good will, benevolence, generosity, service and freedom. By training your body-mind to increase its vibration and then using that higher vibration to focus on your most desired outcome, you will become a super charged manifesting magnet for what you want.

Gratitude:

The vibration of gratitude is the fastest way to raise your vibration in order to align with abundance. The more you are grateful for what you have the more you signal to the universe that you are ready to receive more. The fastest way to attract abundance is to realize that you already have everything you need. From a metaphysical perspective every possibility we can imagine is here for us, we may just not be experiencing it currently. We can learn to use the power of imagination and focused intention to draw it into our current experience. The belief that we already have everything makes the process easy and often fun. Studies show that we can deliberately cultivate gratitude and can increase our well-being and happiness by doing so. Expressing it to others is associated with increased energy, optimism, and empathy. Keep a gratitude journal where you list several things each day that you are grateful for. Write a letter to someone whom you have never properly thanked. Then read the letter to that person, preferably in person. This could be an excellent tradition.

Generosity:

Remember that although there is one Source of the flow of abundance, this flow can take on many forms in the material realm. Until we reach the level of consciousness where we can instantly manifest anything we wish into physical matter, often the flow of abundance will connect to us through other souls on the planet as an exchange. Learning how to partake in balanced energy exchanges with others is a beautiful practice. The shadow side of generosity can be over giving. Whereas hoarding or selfishness can be an obvious expression of lack, over giving may tend to be overlooked, yet is equally detrimental to the flow of abundance. It can often be a symptom of an apparent lack of self-worth. We may undervalue our own personal life force and be in the habit of putting others needs before our own. Over givers naturally attract those who are takers or unable to reciprocate as a reflection of this unhealed karmic soul wound. When we seek approval of others through our generosity this can often create adverse effects. When we are truly being generous from an abundant heart the energy of the action is infused with pure intention and the outcome will be reciprocated energy. Give yourself permission to learn to fill up your own cup and then to support others from the overflow.

Receiving:

Start each day with the following visualization to connect to the potential of your abundant future: Imagine a beautiful warm healing light washing through you and carrying away any cares from the previous day. Imagine every cell your body becoming aware of its innate potential. Think of each of these cells waking up and filling up with this light. Think of all of the abundance that we are surrounded by. You are a part of it and it is a part of you. Imagine that all this abundance is available to you. This is all truth. The perpetual transmutation of energy flows through you. You have the ability to give it form. Imagine your awareness expanding and that you are doing exactly that you love most. Imagine what it would feel like to be doing what you dream of every moment of your day. Bring all of your emotions into it, add as much detail as possible. This conscious awareness is now waiting to manifest. You are in harmony with the universal law. Feel an aliveness and the creative flow that exists within in. Take this feeling forth with you into you day. Repeat this visualization for 40 days.

Intuition:

Make sure that you are choosing to align with the abundance in the universe that truly comes from the relationship you have cultivated with your inner being. Let go of the ideas, beliefs and expectations that society, culture, or others have projected onto you. In order to remember who you are, first you need to forget everything you were told about who you are. Until you remove the veil of these systems that are keeping you stuck you will find it most difficult to connect with your own inner desires. You will be manifesting experiences that leave you unfulfilled because they do not speak to your inner truths. When you let go of the need to be a people pleaser and begin to live for from a place a wholeness you realize that following your dreams actually is a beautiful blessing that you can offer to the planet. Every new desire that you give birth to serves all of creation. And this is so.

Wealth Chi:

Allow the energy of wealth into your home. Your house needs it in order to be able to attract prosperity and this starts with the front door, called the Mouth of Chi. Protect your front door, if necessary, with feng shui symbols of protection, abundance and good luck. Your home must be free of clutter if you wish to allow the energy of prosperity to flow freely. The area connected to your money, or financial prosperity and abundance, is the Southeast area of your home or office. Adorn this area with symbols that represent your desires or build an altar around this area to amplify the energy. A popular stone to decorate with is Pyrite.

In feng shui, water also represents money. For this reason, indoor water fountains are recommended because they circulate prosperity energy in the home. Conversely, the bathroom can cause problems because water is escaping down the drains and the toilet every day. The old adage “Don’t flush your money down the toilet” couldn’t be truer from a feng shui perspective. Always close the lid on your toilet before flushing. This prevents energy from being drained from your space. Place a small bowl overflowing with fruit on a kitchen table. The stove has a direct connection to wealth so make sure to keep your stove in good working condition and keep them very clean.

Create:

It’s most important to set the right tone for the life that you want to create. Taking the time to get into alignment so that you may hear your inner guidance is the basis for everything that you wish to bring forth. Once you have aligned with your soul, removed any blocks, tapped into your power, identified your hearts desires, called on the support of Spirit and the energy that creates worlds then it is time to take inspired action. Then you can begin to consciously materialize all of the energies that you are now growing within you into their highest expression. My relationship with Source/God/the Most High/Spirit/The Universe/Love is the foundation for everything that I wish to experience in life. I learned that Miracles are easy. They simply require a shift in perspective within the quantum field of possibilities. There is a certain amount of activation energy required to propel you into taking the action required to bring your ideas to fruition. When an idea bubbles up from the superconscious mind you have a few minutes to follow the impulse and take action before the idea is killed. Even the smallest action can be the turning point. Allow the universe to align the details, the people, and the opportunities for how the end vision will line up and come together serendipitously. Also be open to the possibility that something better can actually show up for you. I always end my daily morning rituals with, let this or something better come into my experience, and so it is. I allow myself to feel the energy of what’s coming and speak of it as if it’s already here, even though it may not have “shown up” yet. I follow my intuition and I know there is no shortage of opportunities. That which we seek is seeking us. Our higher self knows how to make it happen.

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30 Oct 2015
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Healing the Emotional Body

EMOTIONAL WELLBEING

So many of us were taught conditional love. We have believed for most of our lives that we have to earn love in order to be deserving. We may have felt that we needed to look a certain way, act a certain way, or change some aspect of who we are in order to fit in or be accepted. I have found that at a core level some of the deepest emotional scars have come from not feeling good enough, not feeling accepted for who we are, or some other expression of not fully loving and accepting ourselves. This can escalate into an even more advanced fear of truly not feeling safe in the world. This type of belief or thought form can stay deeply embedded in our unconscious mind and work to continuously undo all of the hard work we have done to build a life that matches our highest intention. In order to truly soar into our purpose and to fulfill our dreams we need to examine our core emotional needs. Many times those of us on a spiritual path end up focusing on areas such as raising our consciousness while ignoring the deeper wounds of our emotional body. In my personal experience, as well as in working with clients, I have found this area to be the most often ignored. Yet I believe that healing our emotions is one of the most amazing ways of tapping into a well of infinite power and inner strength. I am sharing a video that I made that speaks to how to use the power of our emotion well being to break free from the confines of external programming and the system of outside influence. Emotional healing. This process of truly waking up to the infinite potential that is available to all of us requires looking at the experiences that have influenced our life up until now objectively, forgiving who we need to forgive, taking our power back and choosing joy and abundance as our most organic state of being.

EMOTIONAL HEALING TECHNIQUES

CHOOSING WELLNESS
We live in a free will Universe. The first step in claiming our right to our natural state of well being, happiness, harmony, balance, peace, joy, bliss and abundance is to declare this as our intention. Affirm a natural state of health everyday.

SPENDING TIME IN NATURE
Our planet is a living being unique for her healing power and the core of her being which is a direct connection to Source energy.

SITTING WITH YOUR EMOTIONS
The only way out is through as they say. I have found this to be one of the most challenging yet rewarding processes for healing. It does require some level of trusting the process. However as you develop a deeper love and appreciation for the emotions as a teacher your willingness to receive the fullness of the lesson every time that it presents itself means that you likely will not be required to repeat it. My experience is that at some point you reach the breakthrough and then can begin to start climbing your way up the vibrational scale of emotions. Then you can move naturally into a state of joy and well being and integrate all that you have learned.

SHADOW WORK/INNER CHILD WORK

When we are triggered into the fight or flight response based on a perceived fear or threat of being hurt, our inner child becomes activated. This can often be the case when we have not learned healthy ways to express our needs. We move deep into our unconscious where core beliefs such as unworthiness, shame, abandonment, issues take over our awareness. Many of us may have learned that love was conditional and based on behaving and acting in certain “preferred” ways. We may have learned that love is not safe. We very well may have internalized messages that did not speak to our true nature as a sacred, beautiful, holy child of the divine who deserves love unconditionally. Often we have simultaneously been taught that our emotions were invalid. All of these experiences further deepen the personality split that creates the Shadow.

Shadow Work 1: An Introduction
Shadow Work 2: Healing the Inner Child
Shadow Work 3: Healing Grief

EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES

EFT is a unique process that is based on the understanding that the more unresolved emotional issues you can clear, the more peace and emotional freedom you will have in your life. Limiting beliefs can vanish, personal performance can soar, relationships can thrive, and vibrant physical health can be yours. EFT can be an ongoing process that we use to clear out the old traumas and create emotional wellness.

TRAUMA RELEASE TECHNIQUES

TRE (Tension, Stress & Trauma Release Exercise) is an innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma. Created by Dr. David Berceli, PhD, TRE safely activates a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating that releases muscular tension, calming down the nervous system. When this muscular shaking/vibrating mechanism is activated in a safe and controlled environment, the body is encouraged to return back to a state of balance. This is very powerful work. Click here to purchase the book.

INNER SMILE

In case you don’t know Chinese medicine believes there is a connection between your organs and emotions. By simply giving your organs mindful attention and filling them with more healthy energy such as smiling and breathing (more oxygen and blood flow), you are in effect shifting emotional garbage trapped in your organs. I can honestly say it does work. The following is a simple explanation as to the emotions linked to your main organs.

1: Smile into your liver and dissolve anger:

Smiling into your liver can not only help dissolve anger and resentment but greatly assist with the decision making process. Allow yourself to forgive, accept and feel kindness.

2: Smile into your kidneys and dissolve fear:

Feel safe, secure and protected in life again. Breathe a smile into your kidneys, feel them soften on the inhalation and release fear and stress on the exhalation.

3: Smile into your lungs and dissolve sadness or depression:

Fill your lungs on the inhale and totally empty them on the exhale. Allow fresh new air to fill your lungs as you inhale the smiling energy. Feel them relax and release any feelings of sadness and depression.

4: Smile into your stomach and dissolve anxiety:

The stomach can often be a place where we hold lots of worry. Smiling into your stomach can greatly help bring you into the present moment releasing worry and anxiety about the past and future. Continue breathing the smiling energy into your stomach until it feels totally relaxed. A relaxed stomach means improved digestion and a calmer you.

5: Smile into your heart and dissolve hate and impatience:

Smiling into your heart can help shift cruelty, hurt, hate and impatience. Feel your heart fill with joy, kindness and compassion with each breath cycle.

6: Smile into any body part:

Of course you can enjoy a quick 5 minute smiling break by breathing into any part of your body that is overworked, fatigued or stressed. Smile into your eyes if they are tired. Smile into your jaw if you are clenching your teeth. Smile into your shoulders if they are hunched and tight. Smile into your feet if they are tired. A smile encourages you to soften, release and improve energy flow.

These and many more are the techniques that I teach my clients that lead to profound life changing emotional healing. If any of these techniques interest you please take the time to do more research to see if they would be of use to you. If you are interested in booking a private session with myself or one of the other healers that I work with please contact me.

MANIFESTING ABUNDANCE

Most of us ignore the psychic messages we get because we are not trained. The hocus-pocus hype around being psychic continues to keep people disconnected from believing their innate abilities are real. Everyone has their own approach to Manifesting Abundance and I think you guys will really enjoy mine. First step is harnessing and developing your inner knowing. As you get more comfortable attuning to your higher self or to Divine Wisdom opportunities just seem to present themselves to you. You will notice an expansion of your awareness of the world around you and the path seems to literally rise to meet your every step.

I will teach you how to hypnotize yourself in order to plant ideas into your subconscious.

I’ll share these and many more technique for creating every day miracles. The part of us that is God within needs nothing, the human part of us however is here to create and expand our awareness through experience. The way to get everything we want is to realize that we already have it. We just may not be experiencing it all. So the fun part is learning to call forth all of the abundance that already exists for us into this current material/physical plane timeline. Gratitude is a magnet. Some call it magic, manifestation, alchemy.. it’s had many names of the centuries. But the truth is, if you can imagine it, that mean it already exists in another dimension. The work is simply using the power of your frequency to tune into anything you desire and call it forth. I’ve helped so many people bring their dreams to life this way and I absolutely love sharing this powerful work.

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30 Oct 2015
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The God Particle and Wisdom of the Ancients

Before Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton, the Lakota studied astronomy. Many indigenous peoples did. They were natural scientists. What sets indigenous “ethnoastronomy” apart from mainstream western astronomy is native peoples didn’t feel the need to separate their spiritual beliefs from other areas of their lives. The Lakota truly believed everything was interconnected. As a result, hard science observations and discoveries deciphered by Lakota over millennia are always intermingled with their spiritual beliefs, practices and ceremonies. In spite of frequent attempts by the western establishment to destroy such traditional knowledge, some has survived. Read more!

30 Oct 2015
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Ten Common Sense Economic Truths

“The more closely I look, the more obvious it is that the Old Economy fails because it is based on false values, assumptions, and logic. Those who are working to create a New Economy from the bottom-up intuitively recognize and act on 10 common sense truths foundational to a sound economy.” ~Dr. David Korten

Shadow Work 3: Healing Grief

If you haven’t read the previous articles in the series, you can do so here:

Shadow Work 1: An Introduction
Shadow Work 2: Healing the Inner Child

Healing Grief

This is a powerful time for shedding light onto some aspects of our own personality that we may have lost contact with. The soul is always longing to be healed, integrated and brought into more awareness. I thought it would be appropriate to focus on how to work directly with our painful life challenges. I would like to offer some insight into my beliefs about why we experience pain and challenges to begin with from a spiritual perspective. As someone who believes we create our own reality, I believe everything that we experience is always in a state of divine perfection. That being the case, everything the Universe offers to us is neutral in its meaning. It is our judgement of the experience and thus, our resistance to the flow of what is, that causes suffering.

One of the questions that I get asked most often in relationship to the belief that we create our own reality is, “how do you make sense of the fact that there are children suffering all over the world, are you saying they deserve that reality and they themselves created it?”

Let’s first do away with the idea that life is about deserving, this a construct of the ego. The Universe however is finely ordered, on some level whether conscious or unconscious, we all co-create of our experience here. Consider the possibility that there are no accidents that everything is always going exactly as planned. That we are always on path. We are each a unique expression of the Universe/the Creator/Source energy/God that is expanding and coming to know more of itself through all that we are. My belief is yes, not only has a soul created the life they are experiencing, but that with the help of several spirit guides, each soul has created a well thought plan for exactly what they want to experience while in the physical body.

We spend many lifetimes often choosing to incarnate into a physical experience in order to have the opportunity to bring more consciousness to all. Unhealed emotions are deeply embedded in the individual and collective unconscious. To heal something we need to experience it. This includes false beliefs. Things that we judge from the personality egoic mind as imperfection, from the perspective of the soul we can never be less than perfect. We live in a reality of illusion, a constant dream state, behind a veil. This is part of the soul contract that we have agreed to when we decided to take part in this Earth School experiment.

We created the illusion that we are separate (ego). We place some of our consciousness into a physical body and focus solely on the physical reality. We agreed that we would experience a collective amnesia, we would forget who we are and through our life experiences we would have the opportunity to once again discover the truth of our divine nature. The reason we chose to spend time in this physical incarnation is that contrast of this sort does not exist in the spirit and other non-physical realms. We plan experiences in order to know ourselves as love, compassion, and deeply connected to Source. Through these opportunities of contrast we are awakened to the deeper truth of who we are.

By immersing ourselves in experiences lacking in compassion, we create an impetus to develop internal compassion. This is a life of learning through opposites, a path of profound spiritual growth. The soul plans may include handicaps, illnesses, limitations, physical accidents, drug addiction, homelessness, or many other types as challenges. All That Is benefits from the expansion that we create. So not only do we karmic ally benefit our own soul’s lessons, but we offer insight and inspiration to the entire Universe through this great work.

As souls we do not judge. From a spirit perspective, all judgement is self judgement. This may be due in part to the fact that on a subtle level we are aware that we chose the experiences we have lived. Judgements however, while in the physical body are not the result of separation but rather the cause of it. Through projections we continually blame the other, and attempt to separate ourselves from the discomfort that is created. This again is simply a tactic of the ego to prevent us from seeing ourselves.

To release judgement and offer compassion is to return to who we are. When we come into the awareness that none of what we have experienced is by accident, that we are living out our own souls plan exactly as it was written, this opens up the opportunity for profound healing. The way to do this is through recognizing the lesson that we set out to learn. This will be the source of our highest wellbeing.

In learning the lesson we gain an immense amount of self-esteem and self-love while still in the physical realm. Rather than waiting to enjoy the rewards of our hard work in the spirit realm we can welcome all of the blessings now.

From my own research and experience with past and parallel life regression, I have learned that we truly love the souls that we plan our lives with. We hold on so dearly to this misconception that a soul mate it this ideal romantic partner who comes into our lives to complete us. This could not be further from the truth. No other being can love you enough to make up for a lack of not loving your own self. In addition, all of the people who play key roles in our lives are soul mates. During our earthly experience they may be the ones who complicate our life, or even play the role of an “enemy” or abusive parent. Soul mates often incarnate together to master lessons. To speak even further about soul mates, many of our spirit guides are disincarnate souls who are also in fact soul mates.

Once you recognize that an individual is not a true enemy but rather a member of your soul family simply carrying out the request you made from them to live our your plan you realize there is no need to hold onto any bitterness or resentment.

The depression, the anger, the “why me” feelings are important stages of acceptance as part of our soul lesson. They are necessary in order to reach a higher state of consciousness. It is very important to forgive yourself at each stage of the process and to even share your story with others who may be going through the similar experiences and may be able to benefit from your insight. Forgiveness of the person you shared the lesson with is key because it allows us to release and balance the karma for which we may have come together with another being.

We may assume a relationship ending is some sort of failure. Often it is pre-written that we meet for certain period of time in our life related to the intended lesson. Once we have honored our contract all parties can move forward. Forgiveness allows us to fully close the chapter and enjoy the benefits of vibrating higher in our present lives. The souls that stay focused on the traumatic experience lose of a sense of clarity. They may decide to carry self-blame, punishing themselves, and prolonging the lesson. Self-forgiveness is a step towards Enlightenment because it is derived from self-love.

Along with forgiveness, gratitude is a sacred vibration. It immediately aligns us with a flow of All That Is. We express gratitude not to say that we are happy for our suffering, but rather for the growth we have experienced through it. Stay in gratitude that you have been given opportunities to awaken to higher levels of consciousness. Many do not have this consciousness available to them. Staying a state of gratitude helps the shift the focus to healing. The ongoing practice of gratitude has proven effects on the wellbeing of the body including being linked with lower rates of heart diseases.

Free will is always available to us at any moment in which we chose to no longer wish move through the experiences (that we set up to learn) in the exact same manner as was written. We can do this by increasing our vibrational frequency. By practicing compassion, gratitude, forgiveness and taking more loving actions towards others. In my belief everything has a higher meaning. I have learned to trust and surrender my limited understanding of the true meaning behind all of my experiences. I simply practice going with the flow. Knowing that in time, all truth will be revealed.

Our challenge is to find the beauty in the midst of all of our challenges. The true mark of an enlightened being is their ability to turn a negative experience into a positive one. Each of us has a divine purpose. Often the specific challenges that you planned will have a direct correlation with what we want to share with the rest of the world. I pray this work brings you closer to all that you desire to know.

By: Ascension Lifestyle Contributor Hasnaa

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23 Oct 2015
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Shadow Work 2: Healing the Inner Child

If you haven’t read the previous article in the series, you can do so here:

Shadow Work 1: An Introduction

Healing the Inner Child

Our feelings and emotions matter far more than we ever imagined. Much of our society has been taught that emotions are something we need to suppress or to control. However, the latest research says quite different. We are learning that on a quantum level, our emotions are a direct indicator of the vibration that we are offering to the Universe. Long before our thoughts manifest into physical reality (where we are able to visibly see what we are attracting) the emotions indicated physically in our body can tune us into exactly what signals we are sending out. This serves as an emotional guidance system which will allow us to learn more about our own individual and true divine nature. It also gives us much deeper insight into our lives, beyond the lies that we tell ourselves about what is right and wrong, and all of our personal preferences.

Once we learn to recognize the sensations associated with various emotions we will begin to receive a clearer understanding of our true and authentic feelings. Feelings about our job, where we live, our friends and family… everything, even down to the foods we eat. These preferences are coming directly from our eternal self rather than filtered through the logic of the egoic mind. The key to understanding emotions is to accept them as they are. Contrary to what we have been taught, they are a powerful ally on the path to living an authentic life from an enlightened perspective. They provide us with instant and clear feedback about our state of being, whether we are in alignment with our Higher Self or if we are in a state of resistance to All That Is.

For now it’s important to understand the connection to the practice of Shadow Work and our emotions. Many of us are extremely emotional and inclined to “sense” our way through life. To some it sounds strange, because they believe that “truth” isn’t a feeling, but rather a mental understanding. However, to many of us, it IS a feeling. In fact, almost all things in the lives of empaths and highly sensitive people, are feelings (or emotions) rather than intellectual or practical processes or constructs. I always have said I recognize truth by how it feels.

So the question we are all being asked is; Can we balance getting our own needs met within the needs of everything and everyone else? This is a perfect segue into inner child work.

Many of us become deeply triggered in our lives by unhealed experiences from childhood, experiences where we did not get our needs met. We learned to silently suffer and were taught in many ways that we weren’t deserving of the things we wanted; whether it be love, affection, attention or simple validation.

When we are triggered into the fight or flight response based on a perceived fear or threat of being hurt, our inner child becomes activated. This can often be the case when we have not learned healthy ways to express our needs. We move deep into our unconscious where core beliefs such as unworthiness, shame and abandonment issues take over our awareness. Many of us may have learned that love was conditional and based on behaving and acting in certain “preferred” ways. We may have learned that love is not safe. Often we have been taught that our emotions were simply invalid. We very well may have internalized messages that did not speak to our true nature as a sacred, beautiful, holy child of the Divine Source who deserves love unconditionally. All of these experiences further to deepen the personality split that creates the Shadow.

This healing process of recognizing that we all still possess an inner child who is looking for our needs to be met is deeply transformational work. For myself as a holistic practitioner, as well as many healers that I know, inner-child work has created some of the most profound shifts into well-being and wholeness. A profound relationship develops between you, as the nurturer, and your own inner child who is still seeking a safe place to be heard and receive unconditional love. You realize that you do not need to seek the support and validation from those who may have caused you pain as a child; whether it be your parents, family, or close relatives, but that you can absolutely give it to yourself. It is empowering to understand that you can truly create that healing within yourself by turning inward, and utilizing the new level of understanding that you now have as an adult.

The following are key steps that can be utilized to begin this journey.

Developing Trust
For your wounded inner child to come out of hiding, he/she must be able to trust that you will be there unconditionally. Your inner child needs a supportive and loving space in order to be heard. An opportunity without the fear of being shamed in order to validate his/her abandonment, rejection, neglect, abuse, and enmeshment. These are the first essential elements in this work.

Validation
If you’re still inclined to minimize and/or rationalize the ways in which you were shamed, ignored, or abandoned by your parents or others, you need to now accept the fact that these things truly wounded your soul. Understanding that the people who wrong us aren’t always bad, and likely have just been wounded themselves. Continuing the cycles that they themselves were taught, and doing the very best that they knew how given their experiences.

Anger
It’s okay to be angry, even if what was done to you was unintentional. In fact many would argue that from a place of being dis-empowered, getting angry is actually a sign of taking your power back. I know my parents did the best that two wounded adult (children) could do. But I’m also aware that I was deeply wounded spiritually and that it’s had consequences for me. What that means is that I hold us all responsible for breaking the cycle of dysfunction.

Sadness
After anger comes hurt and sadness. If we were victimized, we must grieve that betrayal. We must also grieve what might’ve been, our dreams and aspirations. We must grieve our unfulfilled developmental needs. In grieving childhood abandonment, you must help your wounded inner child see that there was nothing he/she should done differently. This helps to address and self-blame that may still be carried, and unconsciously creating a strong vibrational point of attraction. These deep core feelings of self-blame often create shame. When we feel shame we cover up our true self. Various parts of our personality become suppressed and abandoned. We in turn ended up abusing ourselves in many of the same ways that we were taught abuse by others. We also came to identify with a false self. While the true self remained alone and isolated. Staying with this last layer of painful feelings is the hardest part of the grief process. “The only way out is through,” as we say in the healing arts. As we embrace these feelings, we come out the other side. We encounter the ‘self’ that’s been in hiding from others, as well as from ourselves.

The truth is you are more powerful than you have ever been shown. The truth of who you are is something that is beyond many peoples current comprehension. Now is the time to tune back into your emotions. They are the key to pointing you in the direction of manifesting successfully in every aspect of life. Your emotions are always the indicator of what you are offering vibrationally. Once you have the opportunity to experience the vibration of who you really are and tune yourself accordingly, no other feeling will quite measure up. We incarnated here to enjoy the flow of that part of us that is eternal.

Tune yourself to the vibration of the center of your being and live a life filled with ease and joy. We think loving someone else is the highest emotional experience there is, only because experiencing a true unconditional love of our divine self is so rare. But this deep self love is truly why we came here, it is our birthright. Inner child and shadow work serve to remove the emotional blocks that prevent the light and love of Source energy to flow though us. This is why this work is so profound.

Stay tuned for the final installment of the series, Shadow Work 3: Healing Grief

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23 Oct 2015
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Shadow Work 1: An Introduction

An Introduction to Shadow Work

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow…

Welcome to my three-part series on one of the most profound healing practices you can learn and implement into your life.

Carl Jung called this shadow work. He said we never see others, instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall ‘over’ them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. Shadow work is one of my favorite practices to share. I have found it to be one of the most challenging, yet simultaneously the most rewarding of the many types of healing modalities that I utilize on my path to Enlightenment.

This work is for anyone who truly wants to come to know all aspects of their invisible self. Both their light and their darkness. What I have found is that by embracing the darker aspects of our psyche, we in fact become more open to receive light. We begin to uncover more of our hidden gifts and talents. The unconscious mind, as many refer to it, is in fact a gateway that opens up to the infinite possibility of all that we have the potential to become. But before we can access that windfall of inspiration and abundance from Source Energy, we have to face what many refer to as our own “demons”. This is why many stay clear of this type of work, it’s not easy. Mainstream religion and dogma teach that our demons or darkness should be cast away, banished, or exorcised as if it is somehow a source of evil that can affect us outside of our own will.

This first part of the series will focus on what the shadow self is and how we have come to from the dark parts of our nature. We all have aspects of ourselves that we wish to see grow, mature and evolve. Far too often however, instead of showering these aspects of our self with love and acceptance, so that they may come more fully into light, we have been taught to cast them away or suppress them to please others and gain more acceptance. Maybe we grew up in a home where talking about feelings frustrated or annoyed our parents. We may have been told that crying is a sign of weakness. So in order to create a scenario where we can receive more love, we slowly begin to suppress the aspects of ourselves that want to express emotion.

Another example might be that we were teased when we were younger by other kids for openly expressing preferences for the things we liked. However if these preferences do not align with mainstream ideas, we may have been taught that in order to be more accepted we should hide these preferences. In order to make more friends we then begin to assimilate the preferences of what all of the other kids liked.

Unfortunately not many of us were taught to have a strong sense of self. So these types of experiences where we reject aspects of our self in order to be loved and accepted continue to accumulate far into our adult life. All of these abandoned, rejected and banished aspects of our soul that have not been receiving love and acceptance create a shadow in our psyche. They create what we refer to in healing circles as an block (or resistance). You see, there is no true source of darkness. There is only being in alignment with Source (light) and being in resistance to or the absence of light (what we call darkness).

From the perspective of the quantum universe we create our reality from our subconscious mind. The subconscious is hundreds of times more powerful than the conscious mind. So that being said, it is only natural to then understand that these suppressed aspects of our psyche that reside in the subconscious would play a huge role in the world that is reflected around is. They create what is often referred to as energy patterns. These energy patterns become a powerful point of attraction. In other words, the people we encounter who we have resistance to, are actually projections of our own shadow. Being in resistance to any aspect of our true self drains our life force energy. These experiences take us out of alignment with our Higher Self and Source energy. This is why it feels so draining to be in these types of interactions.

The goal of working with the shadow is to integrate and come to know and accept all of those parts that we have attempted to hide or run from. To make that which has been operating at the unconscious level, conscious. Some may not be aware that these aspects even exist. However these aspects will continue to appear in order to become noticed. The higher self will always orchestrate opportunities for us to come to know ourselves more deeply, in truth, and for the purpose of nurturing wholeness. It is always up to us if we chose to answer our own soul’s call and turn inward. Shadow work, if practiced properly, can help us to create not only more compassion for others, but also for ourselves. It helps us to change our views, perspectives and beliefs. It asks us to embrace what we consider to be our weaknesses and turn them into strengths. When we work with the shadow we begin to reclaim the projections we put on others. We turn inward and begin to gently listen and heal those aspects within ourselves, instead of casting someone else as the bad guy and us as the helpless victim.

With continued awareness and inner healing, we will no longer need to attract into our experience people who trigger those energy patterns. We will notice that the people who we attract into our lives are whole and healed as well. No longer looking to blame our parents, others, or the world for our misfortune. We will be able to look back with compassion on all of the experiences that we have chosen (consciously or unconsciously) and see that there was a lesson and purpose in it all. Within shadow work the practice of forgiveness helps to fully empower us.

Through this series I will be teaching the step by step process of going deeply into this work. This week the homework is as follows: Take a few minutes of quiet time somewhere where you can connect to your higher self and ask for the support of this work you are about to begin. Set the intention that you will begin to call back all aspects of your soul that you have misplaced, rejected, suppressed or abandoned. Understand that people along the way who have caused you conflict have provided your soul a unique opportunity to learn more about your own personal truth.

Connect to a situation (or situations) in your life where you have been in discord with someone. One quick and easy way to locate those unclaimed aspects is to look at where and how you are judging others. We will begin to recognize that judging others is a shadow aspect of how we are judging ourselves. Ask questions inwardly such as; Why am I so irritated or annoyed with that person? Where does that live within me? What frightens me about that person? Who do they make me think of? Some other questions that you want to ask are; Why is this so bad? What does this mean to me? When was the last time that I felt this way? When was the first time that I felt this way? Begin to write down what comes to mind.

The ultimate turning point in shadow work is when we recognize the root or core belief that has created the shadow to begin with. Once we have identified the core belief that we have been holding on to that created a shadow, we can easily become aware of how this is creating resistance within us. Often what happens when we start to ask these questions is we are brought back to a time in our childhood where we can identify the original “trauma” that created the personality split.

This might be a bit hard to grasp, so for now you will have to just trust me. In truth, time is not linear, everything is happening simultaneously. What this means in terms of healing the past, is that you can actually connect to the parallel aspect of yourself that is experiencing this “past trauma” and envision a different outcome. What happens when you do this is that you experience the past healing benefits right now, because all things exist in the present moment. I wont get into the quantum physics of why this is so, however all you need to do is keep an open mind.

When you are able to identify the time/space when you began to create a split in your psyche between good and bad, dark and light.. you want to visualize yourself with the understanding that you have now. We will discuss more of the healing techniques in the upcoming parts of the series. For now, focus on identifying those shadow aspects of yourself that have been projecting onto others. The patterns should be fairly obvious. Because we are holographic by nature, we manifest the same patterns in various areas of our lives, work, home, relationships, etc. Start there.

And as always please check in with your own intuition about when and how much of this work is appropriate for you to start at this time. Self care is always the highest focus.

Stay tuned for the next piece in the series, Part 2: Healing the Inner Child.

Namaste.

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole” ― C.G. Jung

By: Ascension Lifestyle Contributor Hasnaa

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17 Oct 2015
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DOCUMENTARY OF THE MONTH (October)- Billions In Change

The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doing. This film is the story about various groups of people trying to make the world a better place through the elegantly simple inventions they have made to change the lives of billions of people, and the unconventional billionaire, Manoj Bhargava spearheading the project.

Manoj Bhargava is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, founder and CEO of 5-hour Energy. When 5 Hour Energy was introduced to the market in 2004, retail sales skyrocketed to over $1 billion by 2011, and now the company owns 90% of the energy shot market. The genius of his innovation included the 2 oz. packaging, stating that people who needed energy were also not necessarily thirsty enough for an 8 ounce drink. The smaller size packaging enabled retailers to strategically place the product near checkout counters and point-of-sale locations.

Bhargava’s foundations include Knowledge Medical Charitable Trust and Rural India Charitable Trust. The charities have funded medical research in the United States and over 400 charities in India. Two of the major initiatives are hospitals for the poor and education for disadvantaged women in rural areas.

The Hans Foundation is solely supported by the Rural India Charitable Trust, and in five years it has given $48.1 million U.S. In November 2014, Bhargava committed $80.2 million to develop villages in Uttarakhand, India. In September 2012, Bhargava joined “The Giving Pledge” and has pledged 90% of his wealth to charity, with an emphasis on a common sense approach to philanthropy. Rather than simply giving money to charity, Bhargava believes that personal involvement is necessary.

The Center for Public Integrity dubbed him the “political kingmaker nobody knows” after finding out that “he makes donations through several of his more than 70 limited liability companies”. Michigan politicians have said that Bhargava has never tried to influence a piece of legislation nor has he asked for anything in return for the donations.

Check out his documentary above and leave a comment. If you want to get involved with his organization you can join the movement at:

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