Our Story From the Heart this week is a bit out of the ordinary---not from a Newsletter subscriber, but from MY heart. I sent this note to our Alphabetical Prayer Circle, and would have sent it to all Newsletter subscribers---but I don't have your e-addresses; only our Newsletter Angel has them, and my mind was reeling with the situation at hand and I thought only of "prayers." It feels appropriate to send it to all of you now. I know it will be repetition for our Alphabetical Prayer Circle members, but I can't imagine they'd fuss. Below is the email I sent on 19 March.
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My Dear Alphabetical Pray-ers,
I've been away teaching a four-day class---pen, paper, and a classroom filled with light-hearted, brilliant souls, each from a different part of the globe. In mid-morning of the Friday Class I received a call...
My children know NEVER to phone me when I'm in a significant meeting or when I'm teaching, unless it's a real emergency. The receptionist at the retreat center knocked on the classroom door, and when I opened it she said, "You son is on the phone." My heart quivered and I froze on the spot. The last time I received such a call, it was my son Mark calling, and the first words out of his mouth were: "Mom---Stephanie put a gun to her head; she's dead," [Stephanie was my daughter] and we both began to cry. This, five months after my son Luke had been killed in a car crash. Heart pounding, and offering prayers with every deep breath, I excused myself from the class and asked all the students to pray...
It was my son Matthew on the phone, our "head of the family," so to speak. He began with this reassurance: "Mother, no one has died." I took a deep breath of relief; then he continued: "Jean-Marie has had a heart attack." She is my oldest child---a second mother to the family---and to everyone who knows her. She got up Friday morning, felt sick, fell to the floor and her heart stopped---just like that. Blessings being what they are, her husband is a firefighter and he performed CPR, saving her life, then called the ambulance. Two hospitals later, the family was alerted.
On Saturday, Jean-Marie received a pacemaker---a miracle of modern medicine. Of course I've spoken with her every day---and she's now home---and her husband will be with her all week. Her siblings have rallied round with warmth and support. Such beautiful souls they all are, so very beautiful.
Right after Matthew called, of course I added Jean-Marie to our Prayer Circle. Since I receive so many "Thank You's" from you when a prayer request has become a "miracle," I offer my sincere Thank You to all of you, from the bottom of my heart, for your ongoing prayers.
With blessings, love, and arms full of gratitude,
P.S. A few days after she returned home, Jean-Marie let me know that she "coded" (died) three more times in the hospital. Again...from my heart to yours, I thank you for your prayers.
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aaaaaaauuuuuuummmmmm
It has no shape,
you can't hold it in your hands,
it has no color,
nor is it something you can see.
Because it gives birth from the heart,
it is one of the most
powerful energy attractors in the universe.
It's called prayer.
Thank you for sharing yours.
aaaaaaauuuuuuummmmmm
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After years of study and research, Vimala Rodgers developed The Vimala Alphabet. Each letter shape is designed specifically to bring your hidden talents and abilities to life. As you begin to adopt self-affirming writing patterns, you naturally release those that are self-limiting, and at the same time you reconfigure the neurological patterns in your brain. This process is invaluable for people who are determined to let go of the past and stride ahead fully expressed in life. In scientific circles it is called neuroplasticity or cortical remapping. All it takes is pen and paper
Does it work? You bet it does! --- every time. Pick up your pen and experience it for yourself.
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If you are among the courageous visionaries who want to transform their lives through the Vimala Alphabet technology, choose at least 3 letters:
- The first letter is the initial of your first name - not nickname, but your real birth first name. If you adopted a new first name after your 35th birthday, use that as your first name. By writing this letter, you will experience profound personal changes.
- The second letter is the Letter of the Week.
- The third letter is one you have chosen in order to bring about a specific transformation in your life. Choose a letter from the Vimala Alphabet Guidebook.
Follow these steps:
- Write at least 3 lines of upper and lowercase letters.
- Write on unlined paper in the landscape direction.
- No pencils, please. Use a pen.
- Begin by writing once, at the top of the page, the Declaration of Intent of the initial of your first name.
- Write the first and third letters for at least 40 consecutive days. If you skip a day, start over. 40 is the number of transformation; it takes 40 days for the neurons in the brain to realign themselves, which is what the process of adopting self-affirming handwriting patterns does.
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Just as you have gifts unique to who you are, so does each letter. I call them "aspects." I'd like to begin our new venture by sharing one of those aspects, perhaps the most important one of all: the Guardian Protector.
Through the years I've studied hundreds of traditions throughout the world, and have found that within each one, there are such beings that we call called "angels" in English, yet are called by a different name in many traditions: devas in the scriptures of India, Al-Malaikah in the Qur'an of Islam, Malakh in the Hebrew Bible--and on and on throughout the world. To avoid religious distinctions, I call each one a Guardian Protector, because that is their role.
Trust me. They are as alive and attentive as you and I--just invisible, that's all--but fully present nonetheless. Create a conversation with them--then you will know. As with everything I teach, I insist that you do not believe what I say. To know in your heart of hearts that what I say is true, I suggest that you experience it by adopting suggested writing habits, along with applying the aspects of each letter, especially that of the Guardian Protector.
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Soul Quality: Trust in the feminine aspect of the Divine; compassion. Although the appearance of this simple, clear letter appears easy to inscribe, it is, in fact, one of the most challenging, especially for women. I have seen  's with hooks, curls, squiggles of all sorts, and dramatic slashes driving up from beneath the baseline ending with a deadly hook. The essence of this challenging letter is exemplified in life by our attitude toward female authority figures and our interpretation of who they are. Not who they are---but who we see them to be, combined with how they "should be" or "should have been" through our eyes. The Letter holds immense power in releasing negative attitudes. Immense. If you are holding judgments or unfulfilled expectations about any female authority figure in your life---living or dead---you might consider making the Letter your primary letter of choice. Once your daily writing becomes a habit, you may be surprised at how your attitude shifts---from judging to understanding, from "making wrong" to empathizing. Declaration of Intent: I express kindness toward everyone, especially the women in my life. Guardian Protector: Kwan Yin: (Quan Yin)---"She Who looks upon the world with the eyes of compassion." A vibrant figure in Buddhist tradition, Kwan Yin encourages you to view the world from the stance of non-judgment, kindness, and understanding. She invites you to go deep inside, open your heart, release all judgments-including those you have about yourself-and from that loving space to reinstate the vulnerability and natural trust you were born with. Because there are those of us who take the victim stance, clinging to the past as though it were happening now, you can see how the Letter is one of the most difficult letters to tidy up. If you are sincerely determined to release your judgments of the past and those females in it whom you currently are blaming in some regard, each day as you write your Letter , ask Kwan Yin to guide the pen and your intentions. She listens. She responds. Compassion is her focus. How to Inscribe the Most Self-affirming Uppercase - Begin at the top of the upper zone and create an arc forming a three-quarter circle open to the right, free of clutter of any kind---without even a whisper of the slightest hook or loop.
- Make the letter clean and clear---no hooks, curls, or angles of any sort or size.
Caveat - When you write a word that begins with an uppercase
 , do not go "back into the womb," but continue the word from the final stroke. - Do this
 . Never do this 
Lowercase - A duplicate of the uppercase letter, filling only the midzone.
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Some time ago our Newsletter Angel explained why the lower loops when we write become "high flying" loops in the newsletter. In case you weren't here at the time, let me explain, as simply as I can with my minimal electronic knowledge: The formatting we use won't allow the loops to 'settle down' where they belong, especially when they appear on a mobile device...and we know of no other program that will. If these misplaced loops still bother you, you might want to do this: Practice writing lines of the Letter  (patience), the  Ligature (non-resistance), and the Letter  (gentle acceptance of what is). You might also include a few lines of the initial of your first name, because that one letter holds within it your greatest opportunity for spiritual growth---a curriculum in itself, as it were.
Sursum et pergite! (Upward and onward!)
Vimala
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A dynamic speaker and workshop leader, Vimala Rodgers brings to her presentations a vast knowledge of her subject and a warm enthusiasm for people. Her presentations are offered as 90-minute to 3-hour interactive talks, one- or two-day seminars, or weekend retreats. |
Founding principles of the
International Institute of Handwriting Studies
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Last year, several "Handwriters for Peace" members requested, and we formed, an Alphabetical Prayer Circle through which members could ask for specific prayers in emergency situations and we would hold both those intentions with our own intentions in our prayers.
Because it's time to expand the Circle, I'm inviting you to join us. There is no need to become a Handwriter for Peace, nor do you have to give me your name, only your e-mail address, as I send all Prayer Circle Emails as BCCs. If you choose to join us, please send an e-mail to vimala@vimalarodgers.com with PRAYER CIRCLE in the Subject Box and this message: I'd like to join your Alphabetical Prayer Circle.
To strengthen our intentions, each day we agree to spend a precious 10 seconds once---or many times a day---offering our Alphabetical Healing Prayer:
Fill each of us with Your Healing Light:
those of us in this Prayer Circle,
all those we love,
and all those we have difficulty loving.
Thank You.
Also...In the course of the day, each of us devotes a few minutes of quiet time to write, on unlined paper, one line of the initial of our first name (not nickname) in both upper- and lowercase. Just one line; that's it...more if you care to. Read more online...
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