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Barbara Estes Ocala, FL

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Tiffany Prout Leiteo and newborn Zachary

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Adeline R. Turman, Greenville, GA, her daughter Adeline J. Turman, and son Robert L. Turman

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The people of Iran

Rebecca Llaine Williams and her family, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

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Ethan Christman, 1 year, his parents Marcia and Phillip, and his sister Grace, 4

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Jordan Loughran, 4, and his family of Atlanta, at Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY

Those who have lost their jobs in the economic downturn

Where is the Love?
Jennifer Hoffman
August 10, 2009

Although we begin our life journey with full knowledge and understanding of unconditional love, the twists and turns of our path remind us that earth can be a very 'unloving' place. The love we give is often not returned to us and when we have experience enough 'loveless' situations and relationships, we begin to wonder what happened to the love that everyone is supposed to have. Do they keep it for themselves or is there some secret we don't know to receive love? We willingly give love to others but where is the love in the world if it is not being shared with us?

How many times do we give love to others only to have them reject us and our love? How many times do we approach a situation with acceptance and healing and the response is denial of our gift of love? If we are willing to give love, then where is the love that should be our reward? We can believe that it is our mission to teach the world to love and we will find love someday. But while we are challenged to give love to everyone without expectation of receiving anything in return, there is a way to ensure that we receive all of the love we give and more.

We can take two paths for love; each of them reflects our intention for the love we give. One path is to give love conditionally, with the expectation of receiving. Then we find the person who is least likely to return our love and challenge ourselves to somehow get them to love us. Despite our expectations and no matter how much love we give, they will give us what they can, which is often little or none at all. This is the karmic path, because we connect to those we have loved, wronged or been wronged by in the past and our gift of love is an attempt to heal that wound. But our love is conditional, we want something in return, either to be validated, vindicated, appreciated or forgiven and this is manipulation, not unconditional love.

The other path is to love ourselves unconditionally, to be the love we wish to have and we will connect to people and situations that mirror our self love. There is love in the world. Each of us has a core of divine love that we can express, or not, according to our soul's path and willingness to embody the divinity in our humanity. No matter how much we look for love, unless we have it within us, we will be unfulfilled and dissatisfied with our results because the love we find is always a mirror of the love we are willing to acknowledge within. No matter how 'unloving' the world may appear, there is always love present and we can experience that love in wonderful, fulfilling ways when we remember to look for it within. When we expect love, unconditionally and without judgment, it will be there for us and the love we give will be returned to us.

Here is a great opportunity for you and it's Free! Emotional Freedom Technique is a great way to help yourself. I teach it in my classes. It can also be taught to children so that they literally have these tools at their fingertips.
Dr. Mercola is offering an EFT Summit on September 3. He says:

"Tapping is a simple and amazingly fast technique.

"You just lightly but firmly tap on certain acupuncture/acupressure points on the face, head and upper body and astonishing events begin to take place. The process quickly and easily activates the body's own "energy meridian system" and has great potential for releasing virtually anything that's "wrong" with you.

"Tapping has been shown to provide relief from chronic pain, emotional problems, disorders, addictions, phobias, post traumatic stress disorder, and physical issues. While Tapping and the use of 'energy systems' in general is somewhat new to the Western world, it is set to revolutionize the field of health and wellness, using healing concepts that have been in practice in Eastern medicine for over 5,000 years.

"Like acupuncture and acupressure, Tapping is a set of specific techniques which utilize the body's energy meridian points. You can stimulate these meridian points simply by tapping on them with your fingertips - literally tapping into your body's own energy and healing power."

Go to the website and sign up today - this is a great program! You can also go to http://www.emofree.com and download a free manual on EFT to get started now.

Hi. It's Judy. I'm still out here on the Playground. Of course I always like recess best, but recently I also learned something rather important at the National Institute for Play ( http://nifplay.org ). Of course, the very idea of an institute for Play is an oxymoron. Which is what makes it so much fun!

What I learned at the Institute needs a bit of preface: as you may recall, my religion of Judyism was the religion of play and the subject of my 64 Judyism Letters. Who would have guessed that a prestigious medical doctor of neurology and psychiatry would be agreeing with me?!!! Well, it's true. The founder of the National Institute for Play, Dr. Stuart Brown, says that Play is the ultimate form of spirituality and here's why:

1 Play is similar to sleep and dreams in terms of psychospiritual needs. When we play we enter a state of timelessness. To be outside of time and not subject to its constraints is to be in eternity.

2. All forms of spirituality employ ritual. The rituals of play often have ethereal qualities--a spiritual ballet, if you will. If you don't believe this, watch the beautiful rhythm of children at play.

3. Play encourages optimism, joy, compassion and morality--all spiritual virtues.

4. Studies have shown that if humans do not engage in play, they become "reptilian" in their behaviors, that is, lacking in emotion and spiritual purpose.

5. And speaking of spiritual purpose, play helps us discover our talents and who we really are; that is, play helps us experience "spirit," the non-material aspect of ourselves and our lives.

6. Play is an ingenious self-organizing and spiritually evolutionary system. When we understand Play, we understand "God."

7. Most religions are studies in paradox. Play looks like purposeless silliness, which is, paradoxically, the most priceless wisdom in the universe.

Stuart Brown and his Play Institute aside, I have also discovered something else: wonderment is one of the key elements of play because it keeps one in awe in the present moment. Wonderment is about exploring the mystery of something. So if you really want to experience play, whatever you find yourself doing, say, "I wonder what this experience is at its essence. Where can I take it? Where can it take me? I wonder if I can push the possible to its very edge into the so- called impossible. I wonder who I am now. I wonder how my external reality is changing at this very moment. I wonder. . . I stand in awe of myself and the universe. . ."

So until whenever, I encourage you to practice unsafe sects--the religion of Play. ("Unsafe," says Brown, because to truly play one must take risks.)

For play, always,
Judy

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." Chinese proverb

1) Archangel Michael's August message: Link to Ronna's Website

2) Read about the New Moon on Thursday, August 20. Go to Lisa Dale Miller's website http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisnewmoon.htm

3) Karen Bishop's latest Wings article: http://www.emergingearthangels.com/ latest.html"

4) Benjamin Bernstein's Monthly Forecast http://www.itsallgoodastrology.com/ monthly_forecast.htm#8-09Cntd

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