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Spiritual Connections Newsletter

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April 2012
Usual Columns:Feng Shui
Cosmic Corner
Practical Evolution
Angel InspirationEvents
Quik Links
This month:Raising Your VibrationQuantum MedicineThe Golden OctaveNatural Easter Eggs
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Greetings!
Welcome!
Easter and the month of rebirth, also the month of Aries...this first sign of the zodiac. Hope you are all letting go of the things you no longer need and creating the new energies that you are moving into...
This month we are creating new things and making improvements. Our Angel is back from Hawaii and has updated our new Hawaii members on the service directory. You will be able to pick the Hawaii members on the main site by their Hawaii badge on their photo. Everyone has received their location badges now so you can make friends by choosing location from the members menu. We have members from: Africa, Australia, Austria, Canada, Cuba, Hawaii, India, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nepal, New Zealand, South Africa, UK & Ireland and USA. Happy friending!
We have also updated our service directory. We have beautified it and also added some swanky features to our practitioner adverts pages. Check it out here.
You will find us this month at Mingara Psychic Fair on 8th April (Central Coast). Come by and say hi!
Enjoy the Newsletter.....
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Angel Review and Inspiration
Aloha Spiritual Connections Ohana!
I've been returned from my short trip Hawaii for 2 weeks now and am still in complete awe at just how divinely-led the whole experience was. From the initial inspiration to go, to the guidance to not book any accommodation or organise any itinerary, to the perfect people and places I was led to.
I went to Kauai for the first half of March to birth Spiritual Connections Hawaii and it seemed that from setting down on Kauai soil I was instantly 'recognised' as the Spiritual Connections Angel. Everyone I came into contact with that first day 'took me under their wing' and seemed to sense I was there on a mission, as I was offered transport, accommodation and offers of help and assistance left, right and centre. Before leaving I was guided to just 'follow my feet' and that I would be led to the right people and places...and this was LITERALLY how my trip went!
As soon as I got into Kapaa town, my feet led me off the main road, up an adjoining street I had no idea about, and into 'Dolphin Touch Wellness Centre'. I was instantly received by Jeanne and her colleagues, and sure enough my guidance to not book any prior accommodation was confirmed: I stayed at Dolphin Touch for the duration of my stay, surrounded by the supportive and uplifting dolphin energy.
The Hawaii trip also really brought home for me true significance of the term 'Spiritual Connections', and now I understand on a deeper level how fitting, and perfect, a title this is for what this community is all about. Everyone, every place and every experience on my trip I 'recognised' on a soul level and it was crystal clear to me by the complete resonance, perfect synchronicity and soul connections I experienced in Kauai that these were all Spiritual Connections.
Additionally, each and every spiritual service provider commented that they too felt a strong resonance with Spiritual Connections, had been asking for something like this, felt a strong desire to come to Australia (keep your eyes out for Australia and Hawaii SC Trips!) and on my last day I was even told by Wanda, of Ahonui Healing Adventures, that 'we asked for you, we asked for an angel from Australia to come, that's why you're here'.
The vastness of gifts, talents and multidimensional perspectives I was so blessed to be a part of during my stay were so inspirational to me, and I am so very excited to welcome these amazing Kauai members to our global networking community. Among our beautiful new Ohana (family) are a few special people and amazing healers who I want to mention, so do visit their pages on the site and leave them a message or enquire about their services: Dolphin Touch Wellness Centre, Ahonui Healing Adventures, Mark Goodman, Danny Hashimoto, Richard Diamond and Crystal Star Feather. These members will all be listed in the service directory so be sure to check it out.
Many Blessings for a wondrous and peace-filled April,
Ps. Check out the new Hawaii event directory here!To contact Lisa, visit her .
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Featured Member

Esther-Maria Simchen
Kindled Spirit was found on the vision to kindle people's spirit, awaken their soul to their purpose, and inspiring them to take responsibility of their life's healing and happiness. Kindled Spirit is a vessel through which I'll help bring greater health and inner peace to my clients and the community. I believe we are multidimensional beings that need to be addressed on all levels. Often when we start on one of those levels all the others will follow naturally, and therefore will want to be addressed by the person. This is why I practice in a combination of modalities in order to address the whole being and teach my clients how to take care of themselves.
- Through the Reiki (Reiki Jin Kei Do Master), Chakra Healings and my Readings I provide energetic healing and guidance.
- Through the Arvigo Technique of Mayan Abdominal Therapy I provide physical relief for digestive or reproductive conditions and teach my clients how to massage their own wombs / abdomens and how to apply home remedies for long-term healing.
- Through Reiki workshops I allow my students to take their first step in their journey of self healing.
- Through the 8 months programs I have developed I provide a safe space and tools for my students to understand their blockages, to release or accept, to take action, and connect with their true selves.
- Through the sweat lodges I provide clients with a safe but powerful purification ceremony to let go of all that they no longer need and allow the to rebirth themselves.
- Through the Young Living Essential Oils I can support my clients with powerful home remedies.
- I am also a Birth Doula, supporting mothers-to-be in order to share all the incredible wisdom that was once natural common sense knowledge but has now unfortunately largely been forgotten which has lead to high levels of stress, fear and anxiety taking over women's thoughts and beliefs about birth.
- I am also a qualified massage therapist, which I use in combination with many of the above modalities too.
Over the past 11 years I was able to study spiritual healing modalities, travel to other countries and learn with native medicine people. This journey has truly shown me that if we find the courage to create change, if we find the courage to rattle the cage and jump into the unknown - as long as that is driven by our own inner true core - spirit will reward us. This journey has taught me that we are the masters of our own destiny, and that depression will only get stronger the more we are disconnected and the more we are trying to live a life others or society expect from us. This journey has taught me is that all we need is faith, courage to jump over our own shadows, acceptance and forgiveness. But the deepest essence this has returned me to is that it all comes back to love - deep, unconditional love.
What inspired me to found Kindled Spirit on those principles, is a combination of my own experiences, as well as what I observe within my clients, students and society at large. You can read more about my journey so far and why I followed this path on my website.
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Featured Blog
What We Can Do To Raise Our Vibration
We all have responsibilities when it comes to clearing our self created karma. When we clear our energy fields our awareness expands in the 3d and allows us to reach a new level of resonance.
Every time we clear old energy patterns we allow on new levels of higher consciousness energy to come in. When we address our own issues we also release others from our projections and ways of being, allowing them to move on. Only to often especially in families we hold our loved ones in old patterns of consciousness. The beliefs and actions we held over twenty plus years ago and never honour the growth and change achieved in each other. By clearing our own stuff we also clear energy in mass consciousness and allowing a new reality to come into being.
We've all come to this place we call Earth in a separated and individualized form and as we wake up and begin clearing our energy patterns we begin to close the gap of pain and separation from our own divinity.
So in order to raise our vibrations a good place to start is to contemplate your life, and become aware of your emotions, anywhere that peace doesn't exist is a place that needs some energetic clearing.
Telos 3 goes into depth about clearing and it's purposes.
I find the easiest way to start clearing our energy is to find a quiet place observe your mind chattering for a while and turn your attention to peace and get the sense of the vibration peace this way you will be able to harmonise with it. Next think of a situation or event drop the energy into your heart allow it to transmute and harmonise with peace then alolw it to shoot out of your heart as pure peace,light and love. I also physically rake through the energy as if it is projected in front of me and clear it physically.
Hope this gives you some insights.
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Dr Bruce Lipton interview by Lilou Mace http://www.facebook.com/liloumacewebTV recorded under the rain and sun in Honolulu Hawaii at the Quantum Medicine Congress on October 10th 2011.
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Interest Group Feature
Join this group to hear about interesting spiritual books or to recommend some to the group, paste reviews or excerpts.
Location: Central Coasthere
Content: Several local books with covers and explanations. Join in the conversation and share your favourite books here.
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| Events- Central Coast, NSW, Australia... |
March 29
Join us for a journey of movement & sound Revitalise with some qigong before zoning into starry bliss and receiving a sacred sound healing. . Qigong: Through energy gathering exercises, breathing...
March 31Saturday
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March 31, 2012 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm - Your Place!Watch Video Here This Earth Hour 2012: 8.30pm, Saturday 31 March, celebrate your action for the planet with the people of world by switching off your lights for an hour, then go beyond the hour.From...Organized by WWF
April 13Friday
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April 13, 2012 from 7pm to 9pm - Living OM ErinaThis expressive dance/movement class will provide a beautiful space for you to honour your authentic self, fan your creative spark, have fun and listen to the deep wisdom of your body and spirit. Be...Organized by livingomevents
June 1Friday
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The Golden Octave
Of Cosmic Consciousness THE GOLDEN OCTAVE OF COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS ENABLES US TO LEARN TO ACCEPT ALL THINGS UNCONDITIONALLY, FORGIVING AND RELEASING ALL JUDGEMENTS OF OURSELVES AND OTHERS. THIS IS THE ACTIVATION OF THE SOLAR MIND.
As a living mystic, you are the conduit of the spiralling galaxies that creates a union with cosmic consciousness. The spiralling frequencies of the golden octave anchor the light of cosmic consciousness on Gaia, enabling the embodiment of the "I AM" self.... The Conscious Creator. In divine fusion, we are becoming the one body of the ascension. The Golden Octave offers us the opportunity to create the flow of harmony in our lives and enter the spiral frequencies of the greater galactic grid. We are being offered empowerment through our innate resonance with this grid in order to discover the harmony of being in this natural resonance. The Golden Octave brings a deeper harmony to the practical circumstances in which we find ourselves - Free the ego from its self-centeredness. Embrace the potent energies that are raising the harmonic frequencies of the planet. Breathe easily; you are the song being sun by the new golden octave. Sound the resonant tone of the one heart! You are being asked to enter into and explore your process subjectively as you walk into the immense field of potential found in the depths of human emotion and feeling. We are all becoming lucid dreamers, and the Dreamtime holds powerful opportunities. It is a field where potential, past, and future are held in the same matrix as the present moment. If such a construct is foreign to you, stretch your mind and entertain the possibility that you could help to dream a different reality into being. Enter into the mystery where reality is actually created through the harmonised grid of the Golden Being. In becoming a conscious dreamer, you can assist in literally creating a new reality for yourself, as well as contributing to the larger dream that is emerging. By focusing on this creation, your thoughts and intentions are projected at superluminal speeds across the crystal grid network that encompasses universes. This energetic field seeds, supports, and empowers the creation of an unfolding reality. MAKE NO MISTAKE: GREAT CHANGE IS SEEDED BY CONSCIOUS DREAMERS WHO UNDERSTAND AND KNOW THAT THEY ARE CO-CREATING THE LARGER DREAM. MaYanya produces art works containing cosmic frequency for healing and spiritual advancement. For further information: mayanya.wordpress.com/?sn=l E: mayanya@lightlingo.com.au MaYanyas Profile Page- click here.
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Here are some useful Links to features you may not have yet discovered on the main site including the tip of the month.
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Noticeboard...
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Latest Listings
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Hawaii Events..
Hawaii now has its own Event Directory, listed by location and event type. Click here to visit the
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April Quik Tip
Make friends from your area or abroad by clicking on the members tab, and searching under the submenus of Australia, Hawaii, USA, UK & Ireland, India etc. You can also type the location in the search bar and press the search button. There are more countries listed than there are sub menus. You will see everybody now has a badge across their profile photo.
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Product & Service Directories...
You can find products and services by area and type across the world. This includes venues, therapy spaces, remote healings and celebrants to name a few. Click here to visit the
home page.
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Latest News
For up to date information on the goings on at Spiritual Connections, click
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Facebook Pages...
We have several facebook pages by location and more coming:
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Special Offers...
Click here to see special offers added by the members of spiritual connections.
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A House or a Home
What is the difference between a house and home or unit and a home?
A house or a unit are buildings, dwellings where people walk in and out. There is no particular space in it that one can feel totally relaxed and happy. These are usually places that are either totally neglected or show pieces where one does not want to sit down or stay.
A home is a place that one is looking forward to go to at any time. Whether it is your home or someone else's one feels comfortable and relaxed. In a home one feels in harmony, is happy and enjoys laughter.
When we create our home we create our life. It has been proven that we have a better chance to create a home when we are happy. When we are unhappy or stressed we often make poor decisions.
I'm often asked where do I start - with the inner or with the outer Feng Shui?
First analyse your life, are you happy with your life? If you would like to improve your life I suggest to start by analysing the outer Feng Shui using the bagua and see what it reveals. From there one can make the necessary adjustments to create what one wants in life. These changes have an effect on the inner Feng Shui our mental and emotional behaviours which open new opportunities.
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Events and Workshops- NSW
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Sydney Events
April 16Monday
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April 16, 2012 from 7pm to 9pm - Port StephensThis method has been developed by Marlih to clear blockages related to certain areas of a home/office, hence specific life situations. Marlih is always in search of and is experimenting with methods...Organized by Bliss Feng Shui Consultancy
April 17Tuesday
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April 17, 2012 from 1pm to 3pm - Port StephensThis method has been developed by Marlih to clear blockages related to certain areas of a home/office, hence specific life situations. Marlih is always in search of and is experimenting with methods...Organized by Bliss Feng Shui Consultancy
April 18Wednesday
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April 18, 2012 from 12am to 2pm - Port StephensThis method has been developed by Marlih to clear blockages related to certain areas of a home/office, hence specific life situations. Marlih is always in search of and is experimenting with methods...Organized by Bliss Feng Shui Consultancy
April 21Saturday
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April 21, 2012 from 6pm to 11:45pm - Hunter Valley NSWThe Sweat Lodge ceremony is a purification of our physical, mental and emotional being. Through this experience one becomes aware of our spiritual dimension, which is the thread that connects us to a...Organized by Esther-Maria Simchen
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May 6, 2012 from 1pm to 4pm - St Ives CAS HallFeng Shui is the ancient chinese art of following the chi or Qi energy flow in homes, and as we are discovering is highly relevant to your own personal energy as well. This seminar explores the use o...Organized by Donna McDaniel & Marlih Jung
May 20Sunday
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May 20, 2012 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm - Allambie HeightsFeng Shui is the ancient chinese art of following the chi or Qi energy flow in homes, and as we are discovering is highly relevant to your own personal energy as well. This seminar explores the use o...Organized by Donna McDaniel & Marlih Jung
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You can find Jan Michele at Totally Active Healing Centre on a Tuesday or at Shaz Butterfly (Erina) on Wednesday afternoon. Phone 4325 3425 or 0424 788 572 to book.
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Spiritual Growth Through Anxiety
Anxiety
Anxiety is the sufferer. The one who suffers in guilt. Guilt creates a field of ""unknowing" within the self for its shroud is self-doubt. Self-doubt creates a pause between the knowing self and the split self and in that pause, anxiety appears.
Anxiety is an energetic entity that keeps one frozen in a place of inaction or indecision for the "unknown" outcome of a choice creates a thought pattern of fear that freezes the ability to make a decision. Anxiety then is the fear of making a decision because the outcome is unknown.
Or perhaps we could say FEAR OF THE FUTURE.
The energy of anxiety is hugely important in the process of untangling the cobweb mind in that its register within the energy system of the physical structure connotes time to make a change or decision about one's life. The longer it takes to make that decision (and the one who is anxious will do anything to postpone the decision for they fear the unknown result of that decision) the more the field of energy called anxiety collects within the 7 bodies of the human genome, and then limits even more, one's ability to make a decision for change.
People who suffer from anxiety generally remain stuck in unhealthy behavioural patterns. These patterns keep them held in a particular place in their lives, but "better the devil you know" is preferred to the decision of change that is inevitably at hand.
There is always a physical manifestation such as chewing, biting, nibbling, scratching, squinting, rubbing, picking or cramping etc., to indicate the arrival of the energy in the system. If one can catch oneself in the physical activity (which is subconsciously driven by the thought pattern of anxiety) and identify the "low frequency thoughts" that they ride in on", one can begin to monitor to be more aware of those thoughts that "drive" the machine. When they are seen through awareness, they can be "released". If they are not seen and released, they begin to collect in eddies" of spiralling energies that "drill into the energy body" and create "disharmonic rifts" within the individuals geometrical pattern. These energies result in a disharmonic within the sound and light frequencies "creating a "wobble" in the lines of the pattern: In order to realign itself, the pattern will create a way to "release" the pooling energies.
This manifests as the disharmonic energies birthing through the emotional or physical body.... often explosively and with an excess of emotion that is detrimental and often violent or self-destructive to self or others. Following these outbursts, one will feel immense guilt (from the subconscious projection).... Therefore the pattern begins to cycle again... and again.
The way through?
The energy of anxiety is inbuilt as a part of the survival mechanism of the human genome. There is nothing bad or wrong with it. It is as important as happiness or contentment or sadness. All humans are born with the program. However due to the individual karmic makeup of the individual, anxiety will be either a high level or low level mechanism that oversees" the development of choice through the lifetime. Overcoming One's high anxiety levels require a high level of mind "awareness". Meditation practices for mind awareness are the most beneficial of all for high level anxiety sufferers. Ultimately, the primary anxious thought (driven from the subconscious thought pattern of self doubt) is that One will make the wrong decision.
"What if I am wrong?" runs the polarity conflict of mind and keeps one stuck in indecision, crating the looping pattern that becomes more and more intense. Bear in mind that when the "thought adjuster" steps in, anxiety is overridden to enable movement and change for the One. (This simply means that when One is to be moved forward in a decision that seems impossible to make because of the fear surrounding it, One will be moved from the beyond).
Movement and change are an inevitable part of the human process. Staying the same is not an option. In order to avoid fear of the future, one must remain anchored in the present, and make all decisions from a present, anchored state of awareness. Anxiety will attempt to move you into the past where there is certainty or into the future where there is uncertainty. The sufferer will opt for certainty, even though that choice no longer serves them. The bottom line here is trusting self, trusting life, trusting God. Trust in the continuing unfolding process and that all is known, seen and taken care of.
BELIEF IN SELF IS MOST OFTEN LACKING IN THOSE WHO HAVE MOST TO OFFER. THOSE WHO TRULY HAVE A RARE GIFT TO OFFER THE WORLD ARE OFTEN INDECISIVE AND ANXIOUS. THIS IS SO THAT HUMILITY IS FOSTERED WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL. THE GIFT IS CRYSTALISED THROUGH SELF DOUBT. WHEN ONE DOES NOT THINK THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH, ONE IS HOLDING ENERGY FOR THE ONE. THESE GIFTED BUT TORMENTED BEINGS ARE CLOSEST TO GOD. FOR IN THEIR INDECISION THEY WALK THE FINEST LINE BETWEEN DARK AND LIGHT.
One who suffers indecision and anxiety is closest to finding the balance within the self that leads to peace. The road is hard because all monitoring must come to the individual, by the individual. Watch your thoughts, watch the movements of the body in order to recognise the signals that speak loudly telling that time for decision is here.
Choose one way or the other and be at peace. You can't go wrong.
MaYanya
For further information:
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MaYanyas Profile Page-
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Mayanya write's every month for "Mayanya's Cosmic Corner" from her own channellings, understandings and inspiration. The image is one of her channelled artworks which holds light codes for healing and spiritual growth. You can find her on spiritual connections or at the blog and email above if you would like to organise personal sessions.
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April 27Friday
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April 27, 2012 at 4pm to April 29, 2012 at 4pm - Central CoastI invite you to take time out of your everyday life and step into a space that is designed to nourish you, connect with like minded people and discover more of you. You are worth it! experience the...Organized by Rut Frohlich
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May 3, 2013 at 4pm to May 9, 2013 at 4pm - Uluru7 Day/6 Night Red Centre Culture, Country & Meditation Experience 7 Days/ 6 nights Aussie Outback Camping Authentic Aboriginal Experiences, Exquisite Locations and ABSOLUTE Peace & Quiet for...Organized by Conscious Life Meditation
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Soul Essence
During this time of rebirth and renewal, I have found that almost all my treatments have involved bringing in more of the soul essence of each recipient. I came to connect with Savitri Eartheart who has a mission to open the gateway to the higher dimensions via adjusting the Atlas bone (in the neck). She is doing this with a team of others and in connecting with her, and contributing my piece, I somehow seemed to receive some pieces myself. This appeared to be very timely for me and all my therapy recipients. I have found that each recipient at my clinic has been clearing whatever is personally holding them in lower density patterns and bringing in higher percentages of their soul essence.
I have always done this kind of work and it could be argued that this is what all healing work is, just done in different ways. The difference is that at this point in time, the rush is on to embody more of who we really are and align to our soul purpose and they are able to bring in more of themselves than ever before. Even children and babies are making these shifts. The collective energies are now at a level where it is possible to bring in higher frequencies safely and permanently. We are truly becoming more tanglibly multidimensional.
What does it mean to be multidimensional? A multidimensional healer, through their own spiritual development is able to open their gaze further out into the subtle energy fields and perceive fields and trauma connected to the being at multiple frequencies or vibrational levels. With this information they are able to effect change which moves through all energy fields/ frequencies and into your physical/ emotional life. Some people who come in for a bad knee, just need to be worked with at a bio-mechanical or physical level. Sometimes, there is an emotional component which is holding the trauma in place and working at a physical level will not move it. However some people who have a bad knee have the cause on a multidimensional level. It may be a past life trauma, or even a trauma at a cosmic level such as a planet out in space shattered into an asteroid belt. As the soul has experienced this at a higher level, it is holding a shattered feeling in the knee. This can not be worked with at a physical or even emotional level but must be cleared through a multidimensional connection. This work in tern, also enhances the spiritual development of the recipient by clearing traumas and tensions at these levels and opening them up to balanced functioning at higher vibrations. This means the recipient begins to be able to perceive at higher frequencies of perception and their own spiritual gifts begin to emerge. Their soul purpose becomes a more prominent calling in their life and their lives begin to alter and change. People start to be aware of themselves as existing in multiple time frames at once (past lives, parallel lives, future lives) as well as become aware of communication on the etheric levels. They become more able to perceive clairaudiently, clairvoyantly, clairsentiently. They may find that they effect and are effected by events occurring within the collective level that they are now aware of such as global events of floods or earthquakes. They may be more effected by cosmic weather and astrological movements.
A wider view
This change in the individual, effects change in their immediate environment, including their close relationships. Now when they are consciously creating their lives, healing themselves, they are positively effecting their environment. They can be active on an energetic/intention level rather than a physical one to effect positive change for their cause. As they align to their own calling or divine purpose, they are then taking their place in the collective calling, effecting the earth and her evolution.
When all people have cleared their traumas and are more clearly aligning to their souls calling, functioning at a higher frequency, this progresses evolution and all people begin to flow together.
In nature everything has a role, and as each animal and plant and insect take up there day to day job, all flows perfectly together. When we are also aligning to the collective flow, we align to our soul purpose and each complements the other to flow perfectly in unity as an overall collective. We take our place in nature.
Easter a celebration of spring and fertility
Easter is a celebration with its roots in paganism. It is connected to the rhythms of nature, where the people were effecting weather and abundance with their rituals and intentions. "Wiccans and other modern-day Neopagans continue to celebrate the Spring Equinox as one of their 8 yearly Sabbats (holy days of celebration). Near the Mediterranean, this is a time of sprouting of the summer's crop; farther north, it is the time for seeding. Their rituals at the Spring Equinox are related primarily to the fertility of the crops and to the balance of the day and night times. In those places where Wiccans can safely celebrate the Sabbat out of doors without threat of religious persecution, they often incorporate a bonfire into their rituals, jumping over the dying embers is believed to assure fertility of people and crops." (Taken form here) What a perfect time to connect to our true selves and take our place in the oneness of our planet and her evolution. The christian celebration is about the death and resurrection of Christ. This also aligns to the events described above as Christ releases his lower physical body and ego and comes back down from heaven into physical level bringing with him his higher vibrating soul essence, enlightened. _____________________________________________________________________
This segment shares information and insights directly from the experience of Tracy (Cranio-sacral Therapist and multidimensional healer) and her therapy clients. It is aimed at assisting those experiencing ascension symptoms to manage the changes this has in their lives and the lives of their families.
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Celebrating Easter Nature's Way
by Farmers' Almanac Staff | Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 | From: Farmers' Almanac Blog
Dyeing Easter eggs is a fun tradition that's been around for centuries. So, how did our ancestors make all of those bright colors back before commercial egg dyes were sold in stores every spring?
Making natural dye colors out of fruits, vegetables, and other everyday items you can find in your home or garden is both easy and fun. Everything from onion skins to grass can be used to make vibrant all-natural colors. Just throw the raw materials into the boiling water while you cook the eggs - you'll need to boil each color separately - and you're good to go! For really vivid color, be sure to add at least a half a cup of dyeing material, and two teaspoons of vinegar, for each cup of water you use.
In a medium pan, put in a single layer of eggs, enough water to cover them, and your dyeing materials. Bring the water to a boil, then reduce the heat and let the eggs and dye mixture simmer for about 15 minutes. If you want the color on your eggs to be darker, let the eggs soak in the dye mixture in the fridge overnight.
Here are some natural ingredients you can use for various dye colors:
Purple: Grape Juice, Red Wine, Violets (works best mashed into a paste with lemon juice).
Blue: Canned Blueberries (including the juice), Red Cabbage Leaves.
Green: Grass Cuttings, Spinach Leaves.
Yellow: Carrot Tops, Ground Cumin or Turmeric, Orange or Lemon Peels.
Brown: Coffee.
Orange: Carrots, Chili Powder, Paprika. Yellow Onion Skins.
Pink: Canned Beets (with juice), Cranberry Juice, Raspberries.
Red: Canned Cherries (with juice), Pomegranate Juice, Red Onions Skins.
Want to know why we color Easter eggs?
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Hope you enjoy your month. Stay on track and live your joy...
Sincerely,
Tracy Robbins
Spiritual Connections
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Spiritual Connections Central Coast
Spiritual Connections is a community based website developed by Tracy Robbins to help the spiritually aware people on the Central Coast and across Australia and the World to connect to each other and inspire each other through their wisdom and experience gained through their own journey.
It is a place to connect to each other and to post your articles, blogs, inspirations, events, products and services so that others can find you and be inspired.
It is also a place to come to find out what other amazing things people are doing...I am constantly amazed by people. Please also post content of others such as videos and articles that have inspired you.
You can visit the Spiritual Connections Profile Page for tips on how to use the site and to contact Tracy.
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