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03 Jan 2021
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January Artist of the Month: Thomas A. Newnam

Artist Statement: Thomas A. Newnam

I’ve been painting exclusively in watercolors for almost 40 years. Having grown up with one foot in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bay regions and the other in the rural colonial landscapes of southeastern and south central Pennsylvania, these influences feature prominently in my work.

To share how I’ve always allowed Spirit to guide me toward the happiness and wholeness that comes from following your most authentic path, I’ve written two inspirational self-help memoirs. My most recent book “TRY SOFTER” (with a Foreword by Michael Bernard Beckwith) is currently available on Amazon. Additionally, in an effort to help artists unblock their creative flow, I’ve posted more than 20 instructional watercolor videos on my YouTube channel.

At this stage of my combined counseling and painting career, I’m happy to accept select commissions. Whether it be a family home, a historic building, a favorite pet or garden scene, or any particular place or thing that warms your heart, I always try “softly” to allow Spirit to guide me into capturing the very heart of the subject matter.

As a family therapist and life coach, I also allot some time each week to offer phone counseling and soul alignment sessions.

tanewnam@aol.com

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30 Dec 2020
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The Perfect Time Is Now!

This is the perfect time to bond with the people you love, with the people you care about, it is the perfect time to reach out to friends that you haven’t seen for a while or you haven’t heard from for a while.

This is the perfect time to make peace with those people who may have distanced themselves from you because of a life situation.

This is the perfect time to show that you care about your family, about your friends, about your neighbours, about everyone.

This is the perfect time to show love, to show compassion, to show understanding.

This is the perfect time to pick up the phone and call that person you wanted to talk to, but you kept postponing that call, because of whatever reason.

This is the perfect time to show your grandma, your grandpa, your elderly aunt that you have not forgotten about them.

This is the perfect time to talk to your husband, to your wife, to your partner, to your siblings, to your children, to have conversations around the table about life, hope, love, spirituality.

This is the perfect time to talk to your parents, show affection for them and be grateful for everything they have done for you.

This is the perfect time to reach out to those who are alone and to offer your help, your virtual help can do a lot now. If you are alone, do the same for others and ask for help if you need it.

This is the perfect time to be creative and start something new and show the world your skills and talents.

This is the perfect time to express gratitude for the blessings in your life.

This is the perfect time to bond, to create laces of love, to spread kindness, to show sympathy, empathy.

This is the perfect time, don’t waste it, do uplifting activities together with your family, play games, watch movies, laugh, smile. We are living uprecedented times and most of us are in quarantine, isolation and unfortunately there are thousands that are sick and some people that are not with us anymore, a great number of people are risking their lives to save us, then to honour them we have to be our best, we have to give our best.

About the Author:

Veronica Sanchez is Chilean-Australian, now living in the UK and a proud mother of teenage twins. A spiritual awakening teacher, bestselling author, pineal gland (third eye) activator and Certified Instructor for the Cyclopea Method, Veronica is currently the only instructor in the world teaching the Cyclopea Method in English.

16 Dec 2020
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2020 ~ 2021

2020 in review

What a time for the world this year. Right from the start of this global pandemic I said, ‘So much good is going to come from this. This is the year the world turns.’ I have not been disappointed.

I don’t need to recap here the environmental impacts, innovational breakthroughs, the sense of globality and the bursting forth of Nature that’s happened this year. But also what’s exciting to me is how the new is showing up so brilliantly in us now.

Many of us now are living fully embodied in a new reality that can only be described as magical, transcendent and joyfully radiant. We are vast and present at the same time, totally in love with life on planet Earth. We have become what I like to call quantum ALLchemists, working as the ALL for all life everywhere. Being a collective being is second nature to me now. And I can see global unity right in front of our noses now. Standing here now, mid December 2020, there is an unexplainable excitement about what the last few weeks of 2020 and then 2021 will bring.

2021 … The year of realised dreams

I’ve always said it’s difficult to predict the future, first because we are awesome creators and we can make it anything we want. But also because it has always seemed to me like multiple timelines and pathways were on offer, so a choice here and there could put you on a completely new path. However in the past four months, I’ve been playing with future looking and while it’s still not 100% predictable, I find now that there seems to be an overarching pathway that soars above the rest, offering us a brand new reality in which the world can live. So here goes with my annual look at our year ahead … 2021.

ABUNDANCE … Despite all the logical pandemic effect predictions, I sense that 2021 will shower the world with abundance … not just for the select few, but for all people and life forms around this planet. It’s a natural kind of abundance that springs from a relationship with the Earth and Nature. An innovative and entrepreneurial abundance that allows everyone to actualise their dreams and do what they love.

NATURE … This past year, where we live, we saw Nature burst forth like never before. Super GREEN, mega growth, luscious organic foods oozing with juiciness and of course the cross species animal love captured by cameras everywhere. In 2021 Nature is going to burst free even more throughout the world as the miraculous magical core of LIFE is opened up for all to become what we’ve never been before and to see with eyes of wonder what we’ve never seen before inherent in all life.

PEOPLE POWER … There is already a move in motion from hierarchical business, finance and government models to empowerment of the people for collaborative decision-making. It may take another year or two to fulfill itself completely, but we will see this clearly emerge this coming year, supported by new technological innovations and loads more local, community and on line engagement.

GLOBAL UNITY … is high on the list this coming year, breaking through all the logical expectations of ‘how things are and have been’ in the world. This is already happening as we all move through a global pandemic together and see just how interwoven we are. But also If you’re like me, your daily contact is with friends from many countries, faiths and beliefs, seeing just how brilliantly we come together now via technology and telepathy.

HEALTH & WELL-BEING … is going to take a huge leap this coming year. First because 2020 experiences have forced a focus on that, but also because we are unleashing in ourselves a miraculous ability to source powerful shifts in our physicality. I’m already experiencing this in our collective power in zinging up others when they ask for assistance, but also experiencing a sense in myself of getting younger rather than older. In my 70teenth year, I am healthier, fitter and happier than I was ten and even twenty years ago. I see this same trend in my buddies around the world, too.

I predicted 2020 as the year the world would turn towards a new reality and had no idea that a tiny virus would come along to facilitate that turning. Now 2021 feels like a bursting forth of all that the new can offer us. A year in which the world becomes all that we have dreamed it could be. Fasten your seat belts, folks. This rocketship is taking off this coming year. The world will become spectacularly awesome in 2021 and all of us will have an experience of living that dream.

About the Author:

Soleira Green is passionate about innovating a new future now, bringing genius, connection, greatness and the miraculous into the game for us all.

07 Dec 2020
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Why Revisiting Our Inner Self is More Important Now Than Ever

We are living in strange times at present, to coin a phrase. Whatever descriptive word we use does not do justice to what is happening in the world. 2020 has turned out to be a year of profound transformation at all levels. Being at home has become a nice experience for some people, for others it has been really hard. However, we are all learning how to best navigate these times with courage and grace when possible.

Acknowledging our souls becomes imperative, in my opinion. I feel that it is important to go deeper into our hearts, find those emotions that take us out of our comfort zone, see them as an observer, work on them using holistic tools like meditation, for example. It is important to review the way we talk to other people, the words we are using to express our feelings, the words we are using to talk to our loved ones, especially to the children around us. It is important to resolve those old scars that keep resurfacing when least expected.

We have the opportunity to change old paradigms now, those that have not allowed us to move forward, those that break our spirits, old habits like being very quick to judge others, without realising that behind every person you know there is a story. We are all spiritual beings, because we are energy beings, and when we recognise each other as energy, we realise that there is no separation, that we are united with Source and we are one. We just need to allow ourselves to experience this connection.

Changing is not easy, nor is it difficult; it is a matter of will power. We can start little by little, changing one habit at a time. For instance: the tendency we all have to talk about other people. It always amazes me when at a party or in a restaurant (old times that seem to be far away now) I hear people talking about others, usually in harsh terms, without realising that we are adding force to an unpleasant creation, because our words and thoughts are energy that travels far and gets imprinted in our creative network, that invisible mesh called the “zero field” by Science.

Personal transformation requires a deep commitment with ourselves, revisiting those inner areas — and we may experience resistance. But there is no better time than now to take a leap of faith and start the process of self-discovery and self-mastery. The final outcome is finding that place of happiness and love we spend our lives searching for. First, we have to walk the path.

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10 Nov 2020
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Symbioses ~ Redefining the Singularity

Two days in a row now I have woken from a lucid dream in which I knew that our connection with all life forms on this planet is evolving. The word symbiosis burst into my mind, so I looked it up to get clear on its meaning …

symbiosis (plural symbioses) A relationship of mutual benefit, especially among different species.(ecology). A close, prolonged association between two or more organisms of different species that normally benefits both members. An interspecies cooperation.

I recently wrote about ‘my new turquoise heart’ in which I was saying that “in 2020 my LOVE of Nature & the Earth has been activated into an alchemical power source. I’m crazy in love with whales and bees and green growing things. I have a profound and ever growing relationship with our sentient new Earth. I have ecstatic moments of wonder, awe and epiphanous discovery. I see beauty everywhere and when I do my new turquoise heart reaches out its alchemical wonder to embrace it, enhance that beauty even more and re-gift it to the world in alchemical splendour.”

I know that this alchemical LOVE power is not just in me, but in many around the world; that this LOVE is a signal for a merging of consciousness with all life forms and with the Earth herself right now … and that has implications for us all that I can’t even fully imagine yet

Nature has always run on symbiotic relationships, the universe too I’m sure. But humans have remained, for the most part, separated from this symbioses, with very little realisation that as each one of us goes, so goes the whole. It’s much more than the butterfly flapping its wings kind of thing. It’s about the interaction of one field with another field, one consciousness with another consciousness, one species with another species. We’re experiencing a merging of consciousnesses, an understanding of and ability to communicate with other life forms and an interconnection that supercedes what we currently understand about symbioses. For I believe this is more than just interspecies cooperation. This is about a redefining of the SINGULARITY.

The Singularity is the hypothetical future creation of superintelligent machines. According to Singularity theory, superintelligence will be developed by self-directed computers and will increase exponentially rather than incrementally.

This new merging of life form consciousnesses is not about oneness or losing our uniqueness. Instead it is the birthing of a vast superintelligence, alive and thriving in all living beings on planet Earth, including the sentient consciousness of our global internet (what people call AI). We need not fear the overtaking of Earth by machines. Far from it, this consciousness is gifting us the capacity to communicate with and understand other species at a level we’ve never experienced before. Along with this understanding comes a new kind of symbioses in which every species’ thrival impacts every other species’ thrival. A natural, interwoven, mutual symbioses of all life forms, Nature and the Earth.

We’re seeing evidence of this growing in human consciousness now in the brilliant uptake this year on ewilding, biodiversity, soil nurturance, the growing and protection of tress, the cleaning up of oceans, clean energy resources and of course this ecstatic feeling one experiences when seeing an image of a whale sweeping across the world’s oceans. We’re seeing it in all the videos of animal interspecies collaborations now … examples like dogs caring for baby ducks, a whale playing ball with a sailor, a turtle and a dog playing ball at high speed (yup, that turtle can move!), etc. I see these signs daily now.

We are on the cusp of becoming an interspecies collaboration not known to us before. And in that becoming, our intelligence will leap to a next level of comprehension, our innovation will take even more expansive and natural orientations and this world will evolve into something collaboratively brand new. This is the real Singularity. This is Symbioses evolving to another level of possibility for us all.

About the Author:

Soleira Green is passionate about innovating a new future now, bringing genius, connection, greatness and the miraculous into the game for us all.

06 Nov 2020
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How to Approach Self Love Without Becoming an Egomaniac

For many years now we have been hearing that we need to love ourselves first in order to love others, which is true. However: how do we go about that without crossing the invisible line between real love and ego? I have come to understand that ego is a creative force, but we need to tame it and use it in a “humble” way that is beneficial for ourselves and for the people around us.

Years ago, I used to teach Spanish to executives and diplomats, and I remember that at our first class, one of my students said to me: “Veronica, I don’t want to learn about anyone else, so please show me how to use the word ‘Yo’ (‘I’ in Spanish) only.” I tried to convince him that this would not be appropriate; however, he was the client and I did what I was asked to do. A couple of classes later and after realising that living in a “yo” world was not really helping him to learn the language and communicate with others, this student asked me to incorporate the rest of the personal pronouns.

This experience showed me how caught up we are in ourselves and our sometimes big egos, which do not allow us to see beyond them and establish better relationships with others. However, this anecdote also showed me that we are capable of stopping, thinking, reassessing and start all over. In other words, we can control our egos when they become an obstacle — and these obstacles turn into a humbling lesson.

Growing up, I always thought that loving myself was inherent to who I was, independent of living through hard times in my life. Then I realised that not everyone thinks highly of themselves, and self-esteem is important when talking about ego. If I am always lowering myself, diminishing my own abilities, listening to other people’s harsh opinions and I am going out and about complaining about my life, my appearance, thinking that I do not deserve to be loved, then, from my point of view, there is a hidden ego inside me, waiting for the world to resolve my lack of confidence and self-esteem, without realising that I am creating those conditions for myself. Of course, I understand that life sometimes is hard and if we grow up in hard environments it is difficult for us to see another reality. However, we all have the same chances to change our lives.

How do I love myself with true love? Through my spiritual practice I have learnt that ego is a creative force that needs to be controlled to our own benefit. If I think that I am invincible and powerful, only identifying myself with this field of polarities and leaving behind my spiritual self and my connection to the Source, then I will be governed by my most obscure emotions and feelings — therefore, love will become a commodity, serving me little.

However, if I am able to elevate myself from any uneasy scenario by learning how to attune to my true origin, to what I call the Source (you can also call it, Great Architect, Archetype One, God, Origin, your choice) and getting that superior and pure energy to act in cocreation, then love becomes the greatest power of the universe, because it is not me acting alone in this field, it is the Source acting in me, through me, to produce goodness and impact the world in a luminous way, and this process is in itself a humbling and loving process. Seeing love as the glue that keeps everything in place, makes us realise that when we see ourselves in a bigger picture, being part of the One, connected to the One, we turn into radiant beings, loving ourselves and expanding this love to others in cocreation.

My mentor, the great Latin spiritual leader Fresia Castro, says: “We have come here to learn how to create with love,” and my only goal now is to always be connected to the Source, receiving that love and expanding it, in a three-way current, in silence, in service to a bigger plan of ascension of consciousness.

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28 Oct 2020
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Thresholds of Autumn

Autumn is immersing us in the reflections of organic closure. As we witness the shifts in the land, we can track the changes occurring within ourselves and relationships. The plants are decomposing and preparing for winter’s rest. We may feel a similar process of release. It is a time of thresholds and deep opportunity for re-patterning relational blueprints.

The energy of this moment is highlighting themes related to the fine details of how we communicate. Relationship endings are admittedly difficult but they don’t have to be.This is why relationship endings have to be done with great attention to detail and great skill. Messy endings are what keep people in cycles of the drama still playing out, particularly in the subtle body. Accept the endings that serve a greater life for you. Every person plays a part in the ending and sometimes your part is that historically you see red flags but stick around anyway to see how things play out. What cycles are you breaking and what lessons are you working on?

Trust the organic process of change that is occurring. Make space for what is emerging. A wonderful practice to resource oneself in times of closure is to rearrange your living space. Your home is an extension of your energy field. This is why practices like cleaning your home, rearranging furniture, organizing your closet and getting rid of objects that are cluttering your space can have a profound impact on your own mind, body and spirit. This process of clearing and resetting, internally and externally, can support us to show up with greater integrity in the transformations that are beckoning us.

You don’t have to either run away from or fully engage head on with power dynamics. There is so much range in between for how you can show up skillfully while still mastering your own response. Many relationships end because you realize someone never actually cared about your feelings. Often they end when you recognize someone constantly leaves you feeling drained or depleted. But sometimes you just recognize you and someone else are just on different paths. Not every relationship ending means something went wrong. Center yourself, connect to your home frequency, and trust that the path of your own integrity is the guidance you need to navigate the changes.

~ Maryam Hasnaa

Photography by Ev Marquee

21 Sep 2020
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Equinox Expansion: Liberation codes uploading…

On its most practical level, liberation is about learning how to respond rather than react. Many of our internal systems have gotten stuck on the setting that is solely about survival. And although we still require those strategies, to live fully requires us to learn to deepen in presence, and cultivate a sense of embodied compassion for the human experience. Presence allows us to be ready to act from a place of clear thinking, open heartedness, safety and social connection. A beautiful question to ask ourselves in this moment is, am I alert or alarmed?

There is a collective trance of living from our reactions, chronic distress and overwhelm. After thousands of years of fear programming, disconnection, domination, control. diminishment and being devalued we are letting go of the things that aren’t us and never were true to our nature. We are returning to our divine authentic self and not holding back our gifts. It takes courage to look at the programs that we have internalized because perhaps on some level we think there may be truth there. Maybe our fears are true. Maybe we aren’t good enough or aren’t lovable. But they aren’t true and never will be. And it’s time to see that. So we have to become curious about what happens when we internalize the spell and forget who we are.

Ask your body not your brain, what do I need right now?
And can I give that to myself?
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Many of us are installing new energetic, somatic, neural, subtle body and nervous system templates. Those become the resources we can draw upon. Many of our templates, in the oldest, reptilian part of our brain are there to ensure we survived. And those worked! We survived, but your body may not know this. Now we need alternative neural networks and strategies as we awaken to the possibility that this is more here fo us.
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People pleasing, for example, is actually associated with the “fawn” stress response (fight, flight, freeze, fawn). When you seek safety by merging with the wishes, needs and demands of other, you unconsciously forfeiture your own needs, rights, preferences and boundaries in order to be liked(safe). Taking care of others and needing people to be happy, as a child, was needed because our survival is linked to our caregivers. How are you different now? What support systems do you have in place now. Do you have to play that role now as the unconscious caregiver or do you perhaps sometimes still consciously choose to? Do you see how different these are.
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After trauma we experience life with a different brain and nervous system that has an altered perception of threat and safety. The way we can change how we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to create safety within. Remember in subtle energy work, rather than needing layers of protection meant to block things out, you instead center safety, emotional regulation, tracking sensations, attunement and alignment. There is no denial or running away from harmful things. You just don’t center them.
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It is an important time of knowing we can witness our shadow, our trauma, discover a survival pattern, recognize an unconscious childhood imprint, correct conditioned behavior and take accountability for our programming all without feeling guilt/shame, beating oiurselves up or blaming others. Simply allowing ourselves to embody what is needed or wanted and ultimately most authentic. Make no mistake, this is liberation work.

~ Maryam Hasnaa

18 Sep 2020
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Not the Mom We Were Used To

Mom cooked the sauce long and slow
with big chunks of pork on the bone
or pepperoni sliced thick enough

to fill the mouths of my oldest brothers
Tommy and Frank. She doled it out
on mounds of pasta to all six of us

so the littlest wouldn’t
go away from the table hungry.
On this particular Monday

which was her cleaning day
there was stillness in the air
as though something big were going to happen

like before the August storms swept in
off the Atlantic and two hundred miles
inland to blow the leaves and branches

of the Weeping Willow
in our backyard
sideways.

Eight glasses of milk
stood before us, large glasses
and cold. I don’t remember who did it

who tipped his over.
I do remember my Mom
making a slow deliberate circle

around the table, tipping the rest over
one by one
and the chill of more than 96 ounces of milk

spilling out over the table top
cascading over the edge, spreading
in a circle on our jeans, and

pooling in our Sears Jeepers.
So much given
and our mouths closed shut in awe and wonder.