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Tools For Conscious Awareness
Newsletter For
A Next Step...light center for emotional
healing
Vol 46 July, 2004
In Truth, Simplicity Love and Service
FEATURES:
Many people never realize their greatness because they
get sidetracked by life. They forget about their
dreams. Don't let this happen to you. Get in the habit
of spending quality time with yourself on a daily
basis. Remind yourself of your purpose in life; of
your dreams and ambitions.
Listen to your own thoughts. Explore your feelings.
Indulge your ideas and your fantasies.You are your
greatest asset. There's a wonderful, unique person
inside of you. Someone who has many things to offer
the world. Get to know yourself. Become the person you
were meant to be.
-The Daily Guru
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Remember The Loving Spoonful's song "Do You Believe In
Magic?" Remember the lyric, "The magic's in the
music and the music's in me...the magic that can set
you free". Well we remembered it as we talked about
our life experiences for the month. The new Harry
Potter movie came up and the wonder children within us
became enlivened as we talked about the role the
children of today play in the healing of the planet.
The children have a significant role in the healing
of the Earth and all of its woes, because they help us
remember the magic of the children that lie within us.
Our inner children are instruments of developing a
new consciousness. The indigo and crystal children are
spearheading and guiding us into higher places within
ourselves, healing relationships to all parts of the
self and ALL THAT IS. Our intent for this month was
: "WE AWAKEN AND EMPOWER LOVING MAGIC OF THE INNER
CHILD IN ALL THAT IS."
Please join us the first Sunday of each month. We
gather at 3 pm rocky mountain time, we take time to
share, and breathe using BBL -VFF breath/meditation
and then we usually have a fabulous baked goodie. You
can join us wherever you are with BBL - VFF breath/
meditation. Bursting the Body Light - Violet Flame of
Forgiveness. Victory to us! Jai Ma!
**Our next World Peace breath meditations: Sunday,
July 4th and August 1st , 2004.
**To learn the first part of Bursting the Body
Light-Violet Flame of Forgiveness, go to the opening
page of www.anextstep.org and click on free offer, put
your email address, submit and we will send it to you
free of charge. To learn both breath meditations and
support this light center, purchase it thru the
website or send us a check for $54 and we will email
it to you-make sure to send us your email address.
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If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.
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We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by
others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The
more self-love we have, the less we will experience
self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and
self-rejection comes from having an image of what it
means to be perfect and never measuring up to that
ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject
ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept
others the way they are.
It's surprising how many persons go through life
without ever recognizing that their feelings toward
other people are largely determined by their feelings
toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable
within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
The Masters through all time have advised, "Know
thyself." The spiritual journey is one of getting to
know and experience who we really are ... spirit in
form. Life begins to make sense when we realize we
have both a personality and a soul. While our
personality identifies with limitation, our soul knows
itself to be limitless. Our challenge is to bring the
personality and soul together in harmony.
Bring an ongoing awareness of spirit into your life.
As you see and experience new perspectives of how life
works, your rising consciousness will naturally bring
changes to both your inner and outer reality. You will
begin to know the greater truth of who you are and
delight in its loving and creative expression.
Life is a spiritual journey. When we look at it that
way, we can finally begin to make sense of our world.
We can understand why we suffer and how we can ease
our suffering. And we can at last allow ourselves to
experience the love, joy and peace that is our
birthright.
Clarify what spirituality means to you and ground it
with confidence into your daily life. Awaken to your
authentic Self. Understand the higher cause behind
life's pains.
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"To love is to unreservedly seize Life, and not to do
so is to choose death. The ego thinking itself
separate, has whispered to us of death, and prompts us
to try to possess life and love. It insists that we
hover over our children, exact promises from our
lovers, cling to our small morsels. The soul smiles
and urges greater courage. It knows Love and Life are
free and omnipresent."
Lenedra J. Carroll, The Architecture of All
Abundance-an exceptional book. Read it!
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Those who are not considerate get very hurt when
someone does not consider their feelings. Why? Because
their feelings, their personality are sticking out
like antennas all over them, ready to be kinked up and
twisted up when somebody is not considerate or loving
toward them. Yet they don't show others the same
consideration which they expect for themselves.
That is what creates the negative dream--everyone
expecting everyone else to be very considerate of
their feelings. And that is why we have etiquette
books, to teach people to be considerate of other
people's feelings--to teach those who really don't
want to be considerate, but have to learn to be
because they are out to build careers and make
money,and they know they won't do so well unless they
learn to be considerate,so they have to intellectually
know how. But it is all surface. The word insincere
describes the person who doesn't fulfill what he knows
he should fulfill, but pretends that he does. We call
him insincere.
That insincerity doesn't hurt anybody but himself,
because you can't send out anything out into the world
but that it comes back. When does it come back? It
comes back later in life. He may get along fine when
his body is young and healthy. He can be just as
insincere as he wants to be, but later on in life he
won't get along so fine, because the karmic rebounds
start coming back, the reactions start coming back.
They start coming back from other people, who become
insincere with him. They also start coming back from
deep within himself, from his conscience, when he
learns that the way he had been was not right.
Someday, unless he is fortunate enough to study yoga
and clear it all up--perhaps through burning up the
emotional memory patterns using the vasana daha
tantra-he will suffer over it. And he will suffer over
it a great deal.
The art of consideration is a real art, because it is
a constant study. It really is a constant study. And
it is a creative study. It is the art of learning how
not to just get by; it is the art of learning how to
fulfill your destiny through following the knowing
principle inside you.
When you are in for the realization of the Self, you
have to stop the cycles of hurt feelings and regrets.
Just stop! You have to learn by exercising your
knowing power and realize, "If I do this, it is going
to have that kind of result. If I do that, which
opposes my knowing of what I should do, I also have to
know what kind of result that is going to create."
Everything we do does have its consequences. It is up
to you to sit down and meditate on such matters. That
is what meditation is for. Meditation in the beginning
stages is for getting a grip on your lower states of
mind, so that the lower states of mind come under your
control, so you learn to use your brain and don't loan
it or rent it out.
When somebody causes you to do something that you
don't feel that you want to do, or that you know is
not the right way for you to behave, you are loaning
out your brain to him. If somebody can make you feel
antagonistic all day long because he didn't treat you
right in the morning, he is using your brain, because
he put that feeling into motion. He started something
in you that you cannot conquer. But if, at the time of
the incident, you straighten out the vibration with
the person who made you feel antagonistic, by being
considerate of his feelings, then you would be using
your brain, and that is what you have to do. Maybe he
is a young soul who will not learn to be considerate
for a long, long time, and we couldn't expect that of
him. That is why you have to meditate; that is why you
have to get these things figured out--who's who on the
scale of evolution.
Remember these three principles:
1) Your thinking is
going to fight what you know. It is going to fight it
all the time. You know you should do certain things,
but you may not do them, because you have other
reasons, and your other reasons will be good reasons,
which you quickly forget because they are only good
for the moment;
2) If you allow your knowing to
dominate, you will be exercising your spiritual will.
You will be
alive. You will be dynamic. Spiritual forces will flow
through you;
3) If you exercise your spiritual will,
you will have a great power of observation and a great
power over your own mind. No one will do your thinking
for you.
After you have awakened your power of observation,
your soul shines forth, and after meditation you will
go into contemplation. You may think you are attaining
high states of spiritual consciousness, but for real
progress, your soul will have to manifest itself in
what you do on the Earth all the time. So, these are
your steps. Don't allow the thinking to fight the
knowing. Don't allow the thinking to rule your
willpower. Then you will be spiritual.
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As Reiki practitioners we are receptacles of our
client's stories. We hold for them, and eventually by
accumulation for all of us, the shared story of the
human journey. It is a great privilege to receive
first-hand the details of a person's life, their
triumphs and defeats. In the silent, compassionate and
deeply connected space of the healing relationship,
the mystery of being human is revealed bit by bit, and
we also gain insight about our own process. This is
richly satisfying and fulfills the edicts of rightful
living. Everyone is helped and the global human
experience is also transformed as all things are
connected. As much of an honor as this is, it mandates
a great responsibility and acute awareness to be
aligned with universal core values, as well as a
healer's values. "Healer, heal thyself" is one example
of this. We are fortunate that Reiki is by its nature
first an internal discipline for the practitioner and
moves out from that cultivated center. In the field of
Western psychology for instance, the idea that the
therapist is an active participant in his or her own
growth is relatively new.
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This past Wednesday night a new superhero appeared in
our house! As most of you know, my two little boys
love superheroes, and I have written a couple stories
about the exploits of my boys as Batman, etc.
Well, every Wednesday night we have the teenagers of
our youth group over for a small group Bible study.
Soon after the bible study was over, and while
teenagers were still hanging in our living room
talking to one another, I was surprised by a speeding
blur that came down the hall! The tan colored flash
of movement came to an abrupt halt in the middle of
our crowded living room.
"I AM NAKED MAN!" shouted Connor, my five year old
son, as he stood there in all of his natural glory.
Then with a whoosh he was heading back for the safety
of his room.
Teenage laughter bellowed out along with an
exasperated "CONNOR RICHARD POWERS!" in stereo sound
as my wife and I both called out to him from opposite
sides of the house.
As most of you parents know, I was faced with a
dilemma. I was roaring with laughter inside at the
sight of the new little superhero, but I also had to
make sure that my five-year-old knew that public
nudity was not an acceptable practice here in
Wisconsin.
I made my way into the "Buff Cave" where Naked Man
hung out in his spare time.
"Connor." I said in the most menacing parent voice I
could muster.
"Yes, Daddy," replied Naked man as he tried to pretend
he was sorry for what he just did, but the twinkle in
his eye told me otherwise.
"Connor, you know better than to run out in the living
room without your clothes on," I scolded him.
"I know... but that sure was pretty funny, huh,
Daddy?"
I busted out laughing. Then Naked Man started
laughing. Then I realized I was supposed to be
teaching him a lesson here. I cut off my laughter in
mid giggle.
"Yes, that was pretty funny, Connor, but you are never
going to do that again, are you?
"I know Daddy," the UnCaped Crusader replied hanging
his head.
"Now get some clothes on you little cutie patootie!"
I kissed his naked forehead and made my way out the
door, all the while listening to Naked Man's giggles,
and him saying to himself, "That sure was funny!" as
he put his clothes back on....
Yes... a "Nude" hero was born.
I couldn't wait until all the students left, our two
little boys went to bed, and it was just me and my
wife alone in the house.
Connor had given me an idea...
Michael T. Powers, Copyright © 2004
HeartTouchers@aol.com
Write Michael and let him know your thoughts on his
story!
Michael T. Powers, the founder of HeartTouchers.com
and Heart4Teens.com, is the youth pastor at Faith
Community Church in Janesville, WI. He is happily
married to his high school sweetheart Kristi and proud
father of two rambunctious boys: Caleb & Connor. In
his spare time he loves coaching the JV Lady Cougars
basketball team in Clinton, Wisconsin. He is also an
author with stories in 19 inspirational books
including many in the Chicken Soup for the Soul
series. To preview his books or to join the thousands
of world wide readers on his inspirational e-mail
list, visit: http://www.HeartTouchers.com
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DANCING WITH DEATH THRU SENILITY INTO ETERNALITY
by
Young Toni Delgado
We have been conditioned to believe that senility is a
frightful place because we believe it is the end of
our productivity as a being. We believe it is the
experience that precedes death and we are loathesome
to it. Senility can come to an individual at any time
in their lives. It does not just occur to the elderly.
It can happen in your thirties or younger.
What is important to know is that it absolutely can be
overcome! I have done it! Leonard Orr and Sondra Ray
and others have done it. Leonard says that senility is
the final exam of the human condition. That sounds and
feels right. You must however, have the tools and
psychological preparation to outlast it. Read my book
and learn how.
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Energy Breathing-Rebirthing and more call Leonard Orr
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or email:
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www.RebirthingBreathwork.com
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Sunday, July 4th, and August 1st , 2004: our next
gatherings for intenting World Peace using Bursting
the Body Light-Violet Flame of Forgiveness. We would
like as many of you as live nearby to join us and
those of you afar to join us as well. The time is now
to take action and be taking action continuously for
World Peace. It starts with us.
Join us the first Sunday of each month. We meet at
3pm Rocky Mt. Standard Time and breathe around 4pm.
It is an exquisite way to stop the chatterbox and have
our love intention impact on the Collective, the
Earth's Bodies and our bodies as well.
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Mother Father God I thank you for the Desire, the Hope
, the Faith, the Willingness and the Experience of
Loving You with all my Heart, all my Mind, all my Soul
and all my Strength, creating Perfect Gratitude,
Perfect Praise, Perfect Love, and Perfect Faith -
filling my heart with Songs Of Joy, Waters of Life and
Clothing of Light.I love you, I love you, I love
you.amen.
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In Truth, Simplicity, Love and Service,
Young Toni Delgado and Young Kelley Elkins
A NEXT STEP.light center for emotional healing
P.O.Box 429
Dona Ana, New Mexico 88032
toni@anextstep.org
www.anextstep.org
505-382-8771
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In Truth, Simplicity and Love,
Young Kelley and Young Toni
kelley@anextstep.org
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