Archive for May, 2009
Happy Brainiversary! – Gratitude
By Kevin Murray
- Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Three years ago today, I was getting my day started as usual, getting the boys ready for school and daycare, waiting for my wife to come back from an early morning client. About 8:00 in the morning, I got a HUGE headachce, unlike anything I’ve experience before or since. I was having a brain hemorrhage. I didn’t learn that until a little later at the ER. In the next 24 hours, as the doctors did their scans and evaluations, I got to ponder the possibility that “this might be it.”
I started to think, if I’m going to die, how do I want to go? I thought about my wife and children, and wondered if I could leave some part of me with them, in an act of will, at the moment right before I died.
Well, as you may have guessed, I did not die. I came home. I went back to work. Life continued.
But I looked for some meaning in this experience. What I finally landed on was: even more GRATITUDE.
So as I enjoy the day with my family and my brain, I invite you all to look for a couple more places to shine your gratitude. We can be grateful for things and situations. Or we can simply be grateful to be alive. I am today.
Thanks and Happy Brainiversary!
Kevin
Mindful Parenting: Long-term goals vs. Daily Interactions with Children – the Case of Chamomile Tea & Oatmeal
By Meghan McChesney Gilroy
- Friday, May 29th, 2009
Do oatmeal and chamomile tea go together? A seemingly simple question…with some complexity when it comes to mealtime with a toddler and indicative of a challenge that all of us parents have faced. Let me explain.
When it comes to the big-picture, Jamie and I have a few long-term “goals” for our children, for Bodhi (age 2): to be creative, curious about the world, authentic, caring and considerate towards others. We’d like him to be able to think and speak for himself and express his emotions freely (just to name a few). Our desire is the same for our teenager Nick (age 18). Perhaps these are qualities that many of us would like for our children, or even ourselves.
Yet when it comes to fostering these overall qualities during the moment to moment interactions that we have with our children (or ourselves), it can be a challenge to make them “match.” How can we hold our intent regarding the big picture in the midst of making decisions with a toddler or young child on dressing, sleeping, eating, or playing with others? Or on the amount of freedom and responsibility a teenager has?
Case in point: Yesterday I made Bodhi oatmeal – and chamomile tea. The oatmeal went into a bowl and the tea into a cup. I then poured some almond milk onto the oatmeal to cool it down, and also to add some flavor. I then handed Bodhi the container of cinnamon, which he would happily pour on everything if given the chance.
Bodhi plowed into his oatmeal. Then he picked up his tea and began to dump it into the oatmeal. Jamie asked him not to do this. We’ve been discouraging Bodhi from dumping his drinks out (onto tables, the floor, the bowl filled with goldfish crackers). Bodhi proceeded to dump the tea into the bowl and dig in. Jamie took the bowl away, Bodhi howled in protest. Suddenly the kitchen was filled with tension. Maybe you’ve encountered similar situations??
As I stepped back to assess my reaction, I had to question, is it a problem to pour chamomile tea into oatmeal? After all, Bodhi had just witnessed me pouring almond milk into his oatmeal. Liquid onto solid food. The oatmeal and the tea end up in the same place – his belly. And the two were presented as food that you eat together – cereal and tea, yummy. Bodhi was fully prepared to eat his concoction. And in the larger scheme of things, it shows creativity and curiosity (what do these two foods taste like together?) two of the qualities we’d like to foster.
So the real “problem” is our (the adults’) beliefs: chamomile tea and oatmeal are fine to eat at the same time out of separate dishes, but not mixed in one bowl. Isn’t our conditioning of how the world is supposed to be amazing? It affects so much – right down to our breakfast choices.
And perhaps the challenge goes a little deeper. When a teen or a toddler defies what we say, we can become irritated, feel powerless, or want to make them “face the consequence,” i.e. be punished. From my experience, this is an automatic reaction, ingrained in us from when we were children. Our desire to control our children often prevents us from being able to see the bigger picture and make our intent and our actions “match.” In order to parent with awareness, we need the ability to step back and look at our choices and the reasoning behind them from a fresh perspective.
Being mindful of how we parent certainly isn’t the easy route. Mindful Parenting involves questioning what we are doing, thinking, saying and feeling – and questioning why we make the choices we do. Conscious parenting asks us to be more creative, have more patience, and be more considerate of our children’s needs and points of view. In short, it asks us to be and do what we are wanting and asking of our children.
So after comforting Bodhi and giving him some more oatmeal, he asked for some pepper on his oatmeal. And I thought, “Why not?” Given his propensity to pour spices on food that doesn’t “match” in my mind (cinnamon on pasta?), he might just delightfully surprise me one day when he cooks us an inventive and delicious meal. Until then, I’ll be navigating how to encourage his creativity while maintaining a modicum of sanity and order in our world.
Mindful Mothering Class via phone: Virtual Full Life Circle for Women who are also Moms Forming
By Meghan McChesney Gilroy
- Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
From Allison Arneill, Life Coach at www.blissbound.com
You are in for a REAL TREAT, because Meghan McChesney Gilroy, Master Teacher, Author and Co-Founder of Life Mastery Programs, has volunteered to lead and facilitate a Virtual Circle for Women who are also Moms via Phone! She is a very good friend of mine from Marblehead and an amazing, wise, creative and powerful woman, mom, wife, friend, businesswoman, artist, etc. She is a natural-born facilitator and teacher on the topic of mindful and conscious parenting, AND living a life of balance/harmony, passion and purpose while doing it.
Please see below for the description of this group and how to join. Because Meghan’s life is so full, and because she is a professional in the personal growth field, I highly recommended that she ask for an abundance exchange for taking on these leadership responsibilities. Therefore, we are asking for a suggested donation (see below) which is truly the bargain of the century.
Please forward this to other women who are moms who could benefit from a group like this.
Lots of love to all,
Allison
Mindful Mothering Teleclass: a Mindful Mothering Class via Phone
Virtual Full Life Circle For Women who are also Moms – from Meghan
If you are reading this, then my guess is that your life is like mine – very FULL… full of a little one who hits the ground running before the sun is up and creative endeavors, full of balancing a beloved husband and a business (or perhaps a balancing act), full of a deep yearning for moments just for myself and for connection to other like-minded and like-hearted women who also happen to be mothers.
Can you relate? (If not, pass it on to someone in your life who might!)
If you are a woman who is also:
- a partner, friend, daughter, sister, and/or boss/employee/making-a-go-of-it on your own/staying at home kind of momma and
- discovering/uncovering your purpose and passion in life, then
I invite you to join me in chartering a Full Life Circle – for Women who are also Moms (And yes, I know there are days when it feels like all purpose and passion have vanished from a sleep-deprived daze).
In our supportive circle which meets via phone once/month for one hour, we explore:
- How do we REFILL, REJUVENATE, & REJOICE our inner-most self and our dreams so that we can extend ourselves into the roles we play?
- How can we connect to what is IMPORTANT and FULFILLING to us so we can share these qualities with those around us?
- How can we be more MINDFUL and CONSCIOUS of what we think and feel and how we use our energy as we interact with our world?
During our calls, we:
- Make time for silence to hear our hearts (and heads)
- BREATHE!! Laugh, cry, cheer…
- Are inspired to step back and look at our ourselves and our lives anew with relevant and insightful questions
- Share our joys and challenges
- Hold space for one another as we navigate our full lives
Our Full Life Circle is a co-creation among the participants and facilitated by Meghan McChesney Gilroy (see below). We welcome your stories, questions, challenges, ideas, and comments on how we can best support ourselves and the multi-faceted nature of our lives.
If you are interested in joining our circle, email Meghan at Meghan@lifemasteryprograms.com. Feel free to include why you’re inspired to join and/or what your current challenges are. Please pass along this invitation!
The first call is FREE. First call, Wednesday, June 24th, 8-9PM. All subsequent calls will be by donation (suggested $8-15, more if you can, less if you can’t). We also ask that you make a 6 month commitment after the first call. The commitment is primarily to ourselves – to do the best we can to make the time and space in our lives to nurture ourselves via the circle, and secondarily to each other as a vibrant community. We intend to begin in June with a minimum of 10 women.
When not groggy from a lack of sleep, Meghan McChesney Gilroy loves writing and teaching on how we can bring more awareness to ourselves, our relationships, and our parenting. Meghan shares her wisdom and passion as a Master Teacher and co-founder of www.lifemasteryprograms.com. Check out her blog for a flavor of her humor and warmth at http://www.lifemasteryprograms.com/author/meghan-gilroy/
Special thanks to Allison Byers Arneill who initiated this circle. Check out her awesomeness at www.blissbound.com.
Emotional Awareness: What Have You Been Emotionally Eating?
By Rita Rivera Fox
- Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
It has been said that “you are what you eat” and this is especially true when it comes to your emotional diet. Perhaps you have never thought about a diet in terms of an emotional one. It may seem enough of a challenge to just be concerned with what foods you are putting into your mouth, not to mention the possibility of paying attention to another equally important kind of diet. You are consuming emotional energy all the time even though you may not realize it. In other words, you are eating energy all time. This kind of eating may not show up as calories and nutrients in your body, but show up in your body it does!
Think of emotion as energy in motion. That energy is present everywhere you go where there is human interaction. And when you get caught up in your emotions and those of the people around you, you are eating the quality of energy the emotion is conveying. Many of you know that eating organic or minimally processed food is what is best for your body. What exactly is best for your emotional body and its diet? Just as with the food you put into your mouth, the same is true with emotional food – “you are what you eat.” Currently the American (if not most of the world’s) emotional diet is filled with “junk food.” Emotional “junk food” is the emotions that are the result of our old fear-based belief structure and all the thoughts, stories and internal dialogue that this program creates in your mind. If emotions are the energy that drives the human dream, then we can see clearly what the most prevalent emotions are – all you have to do is turn on your TV for the evening news. The content of the news has a very particular emotional flavor, and all the food it produces reflects the content of the stories reported.
Every movie or TV show you watch is constantly creating different emotional energies or messages within the content of the story. Even while reading a newspaper, magazine or a novel you will produce an emotional response to the content, even though it may be undetectable on the surface. If you observe people conversing, there is an emotional component to the topic they are talking about. All of the responses to your life experiences, from the very subtle to the very powerful emotional outbursts, resonate in your physical body as sensation and show up in your body physically.
Perhaps it is becoming clear that the quality of your emotional diet determines the quality of your life. The programmed mind and all of the interpretations you make daily are what create the emotional or feeling response within you and in all the people that you interact with. You are constantly eating emotions but what are the quality of the emotions you are eating? In your own mind, your interpretations and the thoughts and stories that you create in your internal conversations, create a corresponding emotional response. This is what becomes the basis of your emotional diet. When you practice awareness, you are putting your attention on the content of your internal dialogue and assessing whether it contributes to your emotional well-being or if the content contains beliefs that diminish your self worth and intrinsic value. You are also becoming more willing to experience the feeling in your body because there is valuable information in what your body is telling you. In your practice of mastering awareness, when you no longer support or agree with false beliefs in your mind, then right away, a formerly unhealthy emotional diet begins to transform and you will notice this in the way you feel.
When you can really see how your emotions are created and you take responsibility for what you are “feeding on” then you empower yourself to make long lasting changes in your feeling body. When those old reactions that feel as though you have been blind-sided without knowing how you got there, you can see them as learning opportunities. The old response was the question, “How can I control my emotions?” With more awareness, the more appropriate question is, “How can I monitor the beliefs and thoughts created in my mind and put choice into action?” The choice is always to believe what you hear within your own mind – or to not believe yourself (or anyone else). By challenging your beliefs about yourself and the personal stories that are filled with self-judgment, and realizing that making the choice of more self acceptance, you can manifest a change your emotional diet and start eating emotional food that is actually good for you.
What is Mindful Parenting? (Part 2) Being in the Moment
By Meghan McChesney Gilroy
- Sunday, May 24th, 2009
How many times has a phrase escaped from your lips as you admonish your child that sounded just like your mom or dad?
How many times have I told you to stop? If you don’t stop your bickering, I am going to stop this car. For the last time…
Just like we try to be the best parents we can with what we know, our parents and childhood authority figures did the same. What amazes me about uttering a retort that was passed down to me, doesn’t have to do with what I am saying. What surprises me most is how quickly and automatically these childhood admonishments pop out – some of which I haven’t heard or thought about in years.
The reason we can recall the reprimands that we heard as a child so instantly is because our minds were programmed by our parents, as well as society around us. Like the code of a computer, our minds were programmed with beliefs: how we think the world should operate, what is right, wrong, good, or bad; what is safe or dangerous, polite or rude. Being conditioned was a necessary part of growing up. It helped keep us out of harm’s way and explained how to make sense of navigating the world.
Yet as adults, and especially as parents, relying on the information stored in our minds does not always help us accomplish what our heart desires for ourselves and our children (Read “What is Mindful Parenting? Part 1 Tapping into Your Heart’s Desire.“) Our mind relies on what it knows from the past or can project into the future. Yet our hearts are connected to deep-seated wisdom, found within our bodies in the form of intuition and emotion (and from my experience to life force itself).
Anytime I catch myself being caught up in my mind – it could be when I utter one of those reprimands, or when I realize I’ve hardly noticed Bodhi’s beaming smile as I’m mentally reviewing what projects I still need to get done – I challenge myself to come back to the present moment, to return to my heart. I stop and breathe. I pay attention to what is going on around me – the sound of Bodhi’s laughter, the smell of his freshly washed hair, the taste of the meal I am cooking for him, the feel of his hand tugging mine.
As I come back into my body, back into awareness, I feel myself embodying my heart’s desire: to be balanced, centered, connected, content. I become myself right now instead of some pre-programmed response from my past. I open to the infinite possibilities of this moment, this day, this child.
And I become grateful. Grateful for all the lessons my parents passed onto me, and grateful for all the wisdom I am mindfully passing on to my child. Won’t you join me in reconnecting to your heart and returning to the magical moment of now?
Emotional Awareness: The Power of Practicing Acceptance
By Rita Rivera Fox
- Friday, May 22nd, 2009
We all seek the home that is calling us from within and to answer that call, the call of your soul, can present some unique challenges. Your individual response to this dynamic purpose places you exactly where you need to be – within the possibility of acquiring clear self reflection from the circumstances of your current life. The experiences you are having now and what is showing up in your life are the real gifts for you. For if you are having the experience at this time, then it must be the one that is best suited to bring to your attention what you are now ready to see in your life. These are the opportunities that come to us again and again until we are ready to be with “what is,” rather than how we think it should be.
Being with “what is” is just another way to describe the powerful act of acceptance. True acceptance in this sense is the ability to question your stories and the meanings about the situation at hand, and to suspend the interpretation you are having long enough to create a gap of awareness. On the occasion when you can suspend the need to know and accept what is showing up, the opening is created where all transformation comes from. Divine intelligence within you is doing its best to give you what you most need to answer the call of the soul as it heads home. Something is showing up that may not look like what you expected, but practicing acceptance brings you to the moment and dissolves all expectations, so you can experience life fully just as it is.
Somewhere along the way you have asked for more self awareness, or for more spiritual clarity, or perhaps more loving relationships. To accept, means to accept that your highest good, or the power of your intent which comes from these desires you have stated, is unfolding right there in front of you. To understand the power that you have when you ask from your deepest desire is to begin to understand what then has to show up in your life: everything that is an obstacle to the desire or intent you have expressed! These seeming obstacles are simply the opportunity for you to choose again in favor of your desired intent. It is part of the perfectly unfolding plan to bring into manifestation the content of your heart’s desire. Your heart’s desire is the silent working of the soul as it calls you home. To practice acceptance is the way we can most honor ourselves as powerful creators aligned with the God-force of pure potential.
Remembering As If They Are Gone
By Jamie Gilroy
- Thursday, May 21st, 2009
I had a dream the other night. In the dream I was with some friends and someone asked me about my mom and I said she was no longer with us (don’t panic anyone – she is healthy as a horse and due to be around for at least another 80 years…). More than anything else though was the feeling of that emptiness knowing I could never just stop by her house and say “hey mom”, or ask her to come over and hang out with her grandson Bodhi and then have dinner with us. The enormity and finality of her being gone hit me like a sucker punch in that dream. I was shaken. And what I woke up to was how each moment I spend with her, each interaction is precious.
Really isn’t it that way with everyone? When was the last time you looked through the eyes of total adoration and appreciation for ALL the people in your life? The ones that stress you out, the ones that soothe you. Your beloved, your co-worker, your parents and siblings. The total stranger who just cut you off in traffic. And what about us. I mean you. Will you ever know how precious this gift called Life is? Do I? Yeah sometimes I do, other times I forget. But truthfully that awareness is always lingering just below my consciousness and doesn’t take too much effort to once again remember.
I recalled two things this afternoon before I dashed out of my cave (office) and met Meg & Bodhi at the beach. First, it has been almost 48 hours since my last blog (44 actually) and I promised to write each (and every) day. I know I lied. Get over it. The second thing I remembered is how 6 years ago I met a woman who took my world and gave it a good shake. I met my beloved. And I remembered today how much she means to me and how much I love her. The passage below is something I found while in a mild panic as I was searching old writings I could sneak past the blog nazi and insert as a recent post. I thought it was totally cool to dust this off and offer it up as a remembrance to live like one day we’ll be gone. Here it is. It’s for Meg, but really for us all.
I remember the day I moved from Encinitas to Escondido to join you on our path together. It was pouring rain. Normally I would be bummed about not only moving, but that it could possibly rain on moving day.
Remember when you’ve begun relationships in the past and there is a sign or a feeling that somehow this isn’t right, or meant to be, or won’t last – just a feeling so subtle as to be unrecognized? I always had this with other relationships at the beginning. I never saw it as it flew past. Eventually it would be the downfall of a relationship.
That rainy day in Escondido, unloading a large truck at the end of the driveway, while dashing an arm load of stuff to the garage, I remember a feeling that was strong, and new. It was a feeling that this was right – this moment, this experience, this choice of being with you, was just so perfect. I could see you through the big picture window, sitting on the couch in the living room, talking on the phone to a friend. You were watching me get wet. I was watching you stay dry, and in that moment I saw myself being so authentic, so full of life, and pleasure. I had no feeling that you should be helping, or a feeling of injustice at you staying dry while I worked. I loved that you were comfortable…
That was the moment I saw how completely different I felt with you, and how completely myself I felt. I knew our togetherness was right, was blessed, was in harmony…
I felt it then at the beginning, and I feel it even more now after almost 2 years (ed. Note – it’s six years pal). I am so completely in love with our life, our dream, our love, with me and with you.
Just like being soaked from the rain, each drop a blessing, each drop saturated with love.
I adore you Megzy, long time and right now.
What if you turn to someone right now after reading this and say “thank you’!!!
Thank you for being you and in my dream. I love you.
Sweet dreams to you.
J
Fear or Gratitude – The Choice is Ours
By Michele Laub
- Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Until recently, the events in my life were guided by the underlying fear-based beliefs of my programmed mind. Born during World War II, my dad in the army, my mother alone, pregnant and nineteen, I emerged into a swirl of fear, worry and anxiety which continuously shaped my choices. Because the state of fear was familiar, I was attracted to people, and circumstances that reflected that emotional state.
Beliefs are alive, supported by a distinct emotional point of view, and without awareness they run our lives. For me there was always something to worry about, surprises out of left field, and disappointments to stop me in my tracks.
By my mid-20s I realized that others were taking risks, having fun and experiencing love, while I survived from outside the fishbowl, nose against the glass watching, waiting and fearing. The quest to overcome the pain of fear became my personal experiment, guiding me through the traditional process of self-discovery peppered with deep periods of introspection. Through marriage, motherhood and work, fear focused my perception, always lurking under the surface.
After a roller-coaster life of fear and not fear, I read The Four Agreements, by don Miguel Ruiz, Toltec Master and Shaman. I had found the key for me and was compelled to go deeper. As a Dreamer in the Toltec Mystery School, I learned that fear is a distortion of the mind whose job it is to keep us safe. I learned to quiet my mind, expunge cellular memory, and most important: to focus on gratitude as love in action.
Because the mind can only hold one thought at a time, focusing on gratitude replaces the fear, and consistent practice makes the master. The original Toltecs, who built the pyramid city of Teotihuacan 2,000 years ago, knew this. At Teotihuacan the physical representation of gratitude stands as an expression of beauty, universal connection through art, architecture and the structure of the city itself.
I imagine myself as an early Toltec, arriving in fear from a distant mountain village, giving up past constricting beliefs as I walk the Avenue of the Dead choosing a new focus of beauty and gratitude, knowing that everything is connected, living in trust. I know that I am always at the moment of choice, choosing between gratitude or fear. Knowing that fear is “false evidence appearing real” – a result of fear-based conditioning and limiting beliefs, I let go of fear and open the flood gates for more and more to be grateful for.
Join Michele Laub M-F for Your Gratitude Call at 7:00 and/or 10:00 A.M. (ET)Dial 218-486-3850 and enter PIN 51601#
It is a great way to start your day. Feel, express, and come together with others in the spirit of gratefulness. Put the universal laws in motion for yourself, while positively impacting the collective. We welcome participants from all over the world.
For more information visit www.HumanPotentialUnlimited.com and select Gratitude Call
The Reinvention of Me
By Jamie Gilroy
- Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
I promise to write each and every day.
I promise to write each and every day.
I promise to write each and every day.
I promise to write each and every day.
I promise to write each and every day.
I promise to write each and every day.
Etc. Etc. Etc. times 100. (that’s for you Syl!)
Am I a liar or what? How can I possibly write each and every day? Is it possible? I have no idea. But let’s find out. It has been over a month since my last blog and I think I must have lost the handful of faithful readers by now. Or maybe I lost them long ago anyway. But listen I really am writing for myself anyhow. I love the clicking plasticky sound of my keyboard as I hunt and peck my way through this form of expression. It is music to my ears…
Symbols take shape into words and those words have meaning (we can only hope) and maybe even create a feeling inside as they are read. This is my intent and my way of saying something meaningful out of all the words that escape my mouth and have little or no meaning during the course of my day. I talk a lot in my line of work. I also write a fair amount too all in the form of email. That’s informational writing and the tone is most often lost in that very simple form of communication. Here I attempt to allow the words to convey more than the business at hand. Here the feeling of the message is what is important.
So what’s up you ask? Well it’s funny cause I’ve been thinking about how we continually reinvent ourselves throughout the course of our lives. Or maybe not. Maybe some individuals remain pretty much the same after a while. No major shifts no big “aha’s”. I don’t know how that’s possible but it seems to be the case with so many. But there is another tribe out there that always seems to morph into something new, a better version of itself. Or at least that’s the challenge. That’s what I want to talk about tonight – the ones who have found a way to keep it fresh.
Today as I was walking our dog back home I saw a young man turn the corner ahead of me and walk down the street. Some kind of strange recognition jolted through me. I didn’t know who he was as I’d never seen him before. But he was my build and had very long blond hair tied loosely in a ponytail. As I watched him walk away I had this eerie feeling I was watching myself thirty years ago. That earlier version of Jamie (long hair and all). It was mind altering to watch my former self and feel or better yet, know, what that early Jamie was like. Twenty-one years old and not a bad guy but also not all that aware either. And as I watched I could feel what living those additional thirty more years had done to my inner world. There was still a ton of fire no doubt but it burns slower now and is less combustible if fire can be that way. The love I have now runs deeper and is much less conditional. The dreams I have are so much more fulfilling than the ones that moved me thirty years ago. However in the watching of a former version of me I had so much respect for that young man and his uncanny ability to turn a pile of horse shit into a pony. To keep getting up off the ground to find a way home through the blackness of doubt and uncertainty, through the pain of heartbreak and disappointment. In some ways it’s about being a survivor. And that made me respect that younger me all the more.
I thought of all the self images I adopted to make sense of the world. All the masks I put on that helped me to feel like I fit in. The incarnations of me that were really simple strategies to cope with this thing called living. Being alive. But where was the “real me”? The authentic one? The one who no longer believed the mask?
Well duh, that didn’t happen overnight of course. This lovely gift called day in and day out, the good fortune to stay alive and keep getting a chance to see the sun rise and the flowers bloom and the babies be born and the world get smaller and people get more compassionate and the hum of humanity get more soothing and all the questions get answered and all the love increases and all the masks fall away…
That’s what I saw in the flash of a similar looking human to myself. And in all the reinventing of me I saw a link between then and now. That somehow it all made sense when I saw the younger me and felt the twinge of admiration for the path he took that got me here today. Remarkable, truly remarkable when you ponder it. Isn’t it?
So if you are feeling stuck go find an old picture of yourself. Stare at it hard and see who was it there that got you here? And how many reinventions along the way did it take. And how much can you love what you see. And how much can you love what you are.
Right here. Right now.
Later gater-
J
Featuring new associate teacher Gayle Franceschetti
By Gayle Franceschetti
- Monday, May 18th, 2009
Gayle Franceschettii is a gifted intuitive and healer. Knowing that the key to our happiness lies in self awareness, she guides students and clients to see how thoughts and perceptions shape the world and how to create a life that has the quality of “Heaven on Earth”.
A new bi monthly gathering, called The Heart Mind Wisdom Group, will be meeting in June in Wallingford, CT and will be using the underlying wisdom of the Four Agreements as well as the ancient traditions of other modalities. This is a group of like-minded individuals who wish to clear a path to learn, use, and live from their “heart mind” in everyday life. Discussion and experiential activities will lead to a deeper understanding of the Toltec Philosophy as taught by Don Miguel Ruiz – author of The Four Agreements and will include practices from the Life Mastery Dreaming program.
The objective of this gathering is to assist students in rediscovering their Divine authentic self – to reconnect with their core essence – that of unconditional love – where the heart is in direct communication with the soul. Living life through gratitude, which is one of the most beautiful expressions of Love, creates an opening to our authentic self. Emphasis will be placed on assisting participants to recognize and clear obstacles or emotional blocks so that they may tap into their inner wisdom/knowing that is innate in each of us.
In addition to this class, Gayle also offers workshops and classes to develop ones intuition, how to connect with your Guides and Angels along with various healing modalities including Reiki as well as intuitive spiritual counseling, mentoring and individual apprenticeships. You can contact her at 203-265-2927 or at sunnispirit@sbcglobal.net
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