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| Seedlings of Change |
October 2009 |
Hello from my heart to yours.....
Happy New Moon in Libra! We have Venus and Mercury, along with the Sun and Moon, all here in Libra, offering us a chance to communicate with passion and be heard.
October's featured articles:
'The Results Of My Rice Experiment!' by Eveline Maria Smith
'Nocturnal Adventures' by Owen Waters
'Trusting Intuition' by Joan Douma |
| The Results Of My Rice Experiment!
As one of Masaru Emoto's Hado Instructors when I share about his wonderful research I have often been asked, "Have you performed the rice experiment?" It felt right that I give it a try! I selected two jelly jars with lids. One was clear glass the other was uneven crystal like with the design reminding me of the Reiki-Shamballa healing protective symbol 'Golden Flower of Life.' On the clear glass jar I placed the stickers; love, gratitude, peace and joy. I have taken photographs on day 1 and again on the day 30. The rice is cooked white long grain.
DAY 1 PHOTOGRAPHS 
During the first week I felt panic because the jar with all the positive words began to form mold so I wondered if I should have used uncooked rice, left the lids of etc. and I emailed Masaru Emoto sharing my concern. At first I had the jars separated the one with the positive words was left on my kitchen counter and the uneven crystal like jar was placed on top of the fridge. When I didn't hear back from Masaru Emoto I was tempted to stop the experiment then Amber (Rosie's Pet Nanny) suggested, "Let it be and see what happens." So I did; this was quite easy to do as Wayne, Rosie and I headed out on the road to on our travels to Colorado and southern New Mexico I decided to leave the two jars of rice on the kitchen counter.
Since receiving my Reiki-Shamballa Master certification in 2004 I send healing energy prayer to everyone and everything for healing and peace. There is current research study that supports the positive effects in sending long distant energy. For everything is energy vibration including our words, thoughts and emotions; when visualizing the Reiki-Shamballa healing symbols one of my most used is the 'Golden Flower of Life!' I felt drawn to use the crystal like jar because the design reminds me of the 'Golden Flower of Life.' When I returned home and saw the results of my rice experiment and what it communicated to me I'm glad I took Amber's suggestion to heart, "Let it be and see what happens."
DAY 30 PHOTOGRAPHS 
As you can see from the photographs the clear glass jar with the positive word stickers on it continued to grow mold. It was partly covered with mold where as the crystal like jar with the design reminding me of the Reiki- Shamballa symbol 'Golden Flower of Life' had no sign of mold and looked the same as day 1. I felt my rice experiment a positive validating the power of Reiki-Shamballa 'Golden Flower of Life'symbol.
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Excellent Advice For Flu/Swine Flu Prevention
The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it's almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions.Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problemas proliferation is.
While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in orderto prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections,some very simple steps, not fully highlighted in most official communications, can be practiced:
1. Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications)
2. "Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part
of face (unless you want to eat or bathe).
3. *Gargle twice a day with warm salt water *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation.
4. Similar to 3 above, *clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. *Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but *blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.*
5. *Boost your natural immunity with: Vit C tabs and whole food Vit C to nourish your immunityand respiratory system.
6. *Drink as much of warm liquids as you can. *Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm. |
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Nocturnal Adventures by Owen Waters
Other than a few remembered dreams, our nighttime slumbers seem to be one big twilight zone of consciousness where nothing much happens at all.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
A curtain of forgetfulness is drawn across our consciousness each time we awake from sleep. What really happens at night is actually more vivid, more alive, and more real than anything that happens during the day in the physical world.
At night, we travel in a more subtle world than the physical one. Human consciousness has many 'bodies,' or shells of consciousness, each of which functions at a different level of awareness. The more dense bodies used by each human being are the physical body, its etheric energy counterpart, and the astral or spirit body. The less dense ones begin with the soul 'body,' which is a nonphysical field of consciousness that exists beyond the limitations of time and space, and then go on up the frequency scale of consciousness from there.
To understand where these bodies fit into the grand scale of universal consciousness, realize that there are 12 density layers of consciousness. Some people refer to the different density layers as 'dimensions.' As physical beings today, we exist in third density and are in the process of transitioning into fourth density. Fourth density has been traditionally the home of the spirit realms. It still will be after The Shift to higher consciousness has been completed, but the spirit realms will move up to higher sub-layers within fourth density as the physical realm moves in.
The spirit realms are referred to in the plural as there are many sub-layers of consciousness within fourth density. The spirit or astral realms are also known as the afterlife. They vary from the lower astral realms, through the highly-populated middle realms, and on into the higher astral realms or heavens.
When you eventually pass on from the physical realm, as we all do eventually, you will find yourself located in the exact spirit realm that corresponds to your normal frequency of consciousness. If you have strong issues to resolve, they will hold you back a little until you have worked through them by a process of integration. The whole experience of the afterlife is dedicated to the integration of whatever issues of separation were generated during a person's physical lifetime.
If they became polarized against a particular person, i.e. grew to hate them, then they will learn to see the situation from a higher perspective and heal that issue of separation through the forgiveness of themselves and the other person. Then, as the healing of any issues occurs, they rise higher in consciousness within the spirit world.
The mentality of 3D (the third density physical world) is SEPARATIVE in nature and 4D (the fourth density spirit world) is INTEGRATIVE, or healing, in nature. 3D resonates to the human solar plexus energy center, with its mental development and its competitive nature, while 4D resonates to the heart.
The higher aspect of heart consciousness is the first stage of spiritual awareness. It is here that, as a principle, the good of the many is recognized as being more important than immediate benefits to the self. This leads to a sense of service where the person wants to help ensure that the best is available to everyone.
This is the foundation of a society which is supportive rather than competitive. In such a society there really is more for everyone; much more, because the energy that was spent in competition against others is now funneled into productive work.
At night, when you leave the awareness of your physical body behind, it is not because your brain has shut down for the night. It is because your attention has shifted into your spirit body. Your spirit body rises out of your physical body and prepares to begin your nocturnal adventures. |
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 Trusting Intuition by Joan Douma
I am a person who routinely has unusual experiences in life, partly because I am simply who I am and have had my own personal struggles, and because I am "open" and I do put myself "out there" in the world?'
A couple of evenings ago I was walking home from a neighbor's home after practicing meditation with Ellen and a friend of her's. It was dark, about 8 p.m. but I had taken a flashlight and my cell phone (this prompted by a fall a few weeks ago when I did NOT have a flashlight on a dark evening walking home from downtown!). As I rounded the corner and my next door neighbor's house, there was a very tall, ominous looking young man, dressed in what I understand to be "gang" attire, frantically looking on top of the fence and down in their yard for, as I found out, "my cell phone that I left lying here 20 minutes ago."
He asked to borrow my flashlight, which I gave him, and then he asked to use my cell phone to call his friend to get the number of his phone which he did not know ("I just got out of jail and I just got this new phone and do not know the number yet") so I handed him my phone and he called his friend (after a few wrong number dialings), requesting him to call his cell number so we could hear it ring if it was in the neighbor's yard but we heard NO ring because someone had no doubt picked up the phone and taken it along. After a few choice language outbursts, which I totally understood in his anger and frustration, he did express "well I hope who took it is a nice lady like you and will return it" which made me feel a little more at ease, knowing I was possibly putting myself in a precarious position and thinking "my children would kill me if they knew what I was doing right now!!" I offered to ask the neighbor if by chance she or her son had found the cell and taken in but the answer was no. The tall, beanie headed fellow, hollered "I'm going" as I let him know the neighbor did not have the phone. I have thought about this incident a lot in the past couple of days, only telling a couple of friends about the experience, and thinking about this man and feeling concern and empathy for him.
Last evening I spontaneously walked downtown to take in a "Frank Sinatra" songfest at a local jazz club; at about 9 p.m. I called my son, Danny, to give me a lift home, thinking it was maybe not so "wise" to walk home the 20 minutes albeit with a flashlight? When we arrived home Danny said "there is a man scrounging around in your neighbor's yard" and, sure enough, there was my "friend" again and when he saw me, he said to another fella walking up the street, "this is the nice lady that helped me a couple of nights ago."
I told Danny my story and was a little surprised he didn't react at all to my actions that night, just looking at me with a little smile on his face.
He talked to the man, who asked if he had a spare Verizon phone he did not need because they wanted $200 to replace a phone with the company after losing his original one and Danny's reply was "yes, I have one but I use it."
His dress last night was attention getting, a classy black top hat with a feather in it, trousers that hung down halfway to his knees with a long, shiny black sports type jacket (zoot suit?). Believe me, he would never go unnoticed in this world, all of which I observed during this second meeting, and Danny and I smelled alcohol on his breath which does not seem "the way to go" when one has just "gotten out of jail?" As he walked off down the street I said to him "be careful, young man, and stay out of trouble!"
My thoughts on closing are:
1) If I could get a hold of a Verizon cell home and saw him again I would give it to him. He walked in the direction of the County program a block from my home so I might see him again?
2) I might ask him if per chance he had an alcohol problem and if that was why he was in jail, and if he replied "yes" I would share with him that at almost 75 years of age I celebrated 32 years of sobriety this year and this IS a better life!
3) I put my hand on his shoulder last night when I expressed "I am glad to see you again, I have been worried about you" and on the next meeting I think maybe a hug is in order.
 We currently have 12 Seedlings of Change online groups and in this October issue of Seedlings of Change we are featuring Healing Paws for which Joan Douma is the group coordinator. Joan's dog and soul friend Jorgee is a rescue dog. We at Seedlings of Change and Healing Paws express heartfelt Love & Gratitude to Shirley MacLaine for the healing difference and positive work she is doing to create awareness and help animals in need! Recently Shirley MacLaine held her clothing sale in Santa Fe, New Mexico for rescue animals and brought in $11,000.00 for animals in need. (100% of the proceeds went to the shelter.)
"Paws" CAN heal; "Paws" CAN teach motherhood and survival; the animal planet, domestic and wild, is an integral part of our world!
To participate in Jorgee and Joan's Seedlings of Change Healing Paws you can join the online community circle/group via http://seedlingsofchange.ning.com/ |
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We enjoyed a full and delightful summer and from the positive feedback I've received autumn is full of promise and hope. We've been on a steady pace moving ever onward with Seedlings of Change website and its online global community. I have a pinch me moment every time I reflect on how quickly Seedlings of Change website, online community, and Seedlings online store came together. Now with a little help from community art and photography talents we'll have some great promotional items available for you to purchase in support of Seedlings projects.
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I hope you've enjoyed the Seedlings of Change newsletter as much as we have enjoyed co-creating it for you. Your participation in the Seedlings of Change monthly and seasonal newsletter is encouraged and I greatly appreciate the positive feedback! Your poems, articles etc. submissions are welcomed. Please share and forward this E-Note Card to your circle of friends and family.
Light, Love and Gratitude,
Eveline Maria Smith
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