Butterfly You! Issue No1 september 2013

Issue 1:September-October 2013

Butterfly You! Emerge! Express your Unique Gifts in the world

Poem Butterfly Promise

Article

Law of Attraction:

BOOK REVIEW

Kathleen Gage Butterfly Woman

Featured Dream Star

Nitika Chopra

Why NOT me?

Inspirational Story

Go from Caterpillar You to Butterfly You! You were born to delight the world with the beauty of your Essence.

Emerge in your true colors.

Express your unique gifts in the world.

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Section 1

ARTSpirations

IN THIS ISSUE

Butterfly Promise Illustrated poem by Maria Mar This beautiful poem reveals the struggle many women experience when their soul urges them to wear their true colors, but their fear and habits constrict their wings.

Free your True Voice, Own your Creative Mojo Section 2

Wield your Wild, Woman!

IN THIS ISSUE

Joyfully Assert your Right to be Happy Joyfully assert your right to be happy as a woman and in so doing, you will help your loved ones to value the Sacred feminine and reconnect to Earth while you free your time.

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Ride express from your problems to your potential

IN THIS ISSUE

The “WhatIf” Magic Wand You are right now using a powerful Psychic Artifact, but watch out!

Artifacts this powerful are dangerous if misused. Find out if you are using this magic wand in ways that stop you right in your tracts. Learn how the “WhatIf” holds you back and how to flip it so that you can take risks and embrace possibility.

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Section 4

Your Dream Crossover

Sacred Feminine Leadership, Creation and Entrepreneurship

Experts Say! The Business of Dreaming

BOOK REVIEW

Power up for Profits Katherine Gage I just read a book by Kathleen Gage that I recommend as your primer for business start-up, to build your list or if you need to bring in money from what you do. It’s the first marketing book written especially for women!

Featured Inspirational Story

Why not me?

Maria Mar Stella meets a woman that is doing something similar to what she wants to do. Laurel is bold, beautiful and brave. A tiny voice inside Stella asks “Why not me?” Watch Stella go from envy to gratitude, from doubt to dancing her power in this short, magical story written by me especially for you.

Dream Star Gazing Videos by women who are living and making their dream

Nitika Chopra

Nitika has delivered a blow to all naysayers! First, she transcended her terrible ordeal with psoriasis to create her beautiful magazine. Secretly, however, she dreamt of her own talk show. And now she has it! Enjoy her true story.

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IN THIS ISSUE:

Featured Butterfly Woman Featuring

Corazon Tierra Corazon shares the story of her journey from “Caterpillar Self ” to emerge as “Butterfly Woman” ~ from being an anorexic young woman with two left feet to becoming a wellness expert and professional performer and dancer!

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Editorial Butterfly You is about you emerging in all your unique gifts and talents to share your Essence, your voice, your message and your creative mojo with the world. My purpose is to help you do this. My joy is to see you do this. Here’s to Butterfly You!

Maria Mar

I’ve been dreaming of creating a flip magazine for several years because I LOVE flip magazines. They are easy to read, interactive, beautiful and no trees suffer. I’ve been wanting to do THIS magazine for a while because I want to inspire you and to ignite your transformation from “Caterpillar You” into “Butterfly You.” “Caterpillar You” works way too hard but is not fulfilling her true purpose, is not flying with her true colors and sharing her gifts with the world or is not having all the delicious nectar she deserves for her fabulous work. In this magazine I encourage you to emerge, express your essence and share your gifts with the world. To subscribe, join the MagicMark your Life Community.

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Section 1

ARTSpirations

ARTSpirations In this section, we feature art, poetry, and ARTchemy™* to help you turn on the magic!

* ARTchemy™ is art as alchemy, by Maria Mar, the Dream Alchemist www.dreamalchemist.com

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Butterfly

Promise

By Maria Mar She wanted to do her dream, but there were all these important voices calling up to her, all these things she had to fix in herself before she could take the first step.

She stayed at the bottom of the stairs, looking hungrily at the threshold up there, at the light shining through it.

At the promise.

Her many legs worked furiously.

She ate ravenously.

She gained weight.

And then she panicked.

She went on a diet.

And the threshold up there was still shining.

But she had to take care of her weight first.

She had to take care of her duty first.

So many people calling for her!

So many tiny tasks to do.

Her many legs hurt with many aches as she multi-tasked angrily.

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Her legs were so tired that the steps seemed steeper.

Yet she so badly wanted to cross through that luminous threshold, to embrace the light shining through, to become light and luminous, brilliant with the true colors she felt deep in her soul.

To fly with the joy she hungered for.

To give with the exuberance craving to blossom in her.

So she worked harder.

And she worked faster.

And she worked furiously.

And instead of shedding her exoskeleton, she lost weight and became extremely thin extremely hungry.

All her friends congratulated her on her beauty.

And she basked on the glory.

But only for a month or so, until she could no longer tell herself the lie because she knew what true beauty was.

It was struggling deep inside her, struggling out of that straightjacket she had borrowed.

So she ate her fury away and now she gained lots of pounds and her friends were in her case.

So she hid away and stopped going out.

She stopped caring about what they said.

But still she heard all these voices.

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Who were they?

Like ghosts, they haunted her, not letting her hear the answers to her life-long questions:

“How do I get to that threshold?”

“How do I crossover?”

“How do I fly in the light?”

“How do I become the brilliance?”

At night, when it was quiet, she felt the stirring within.

She felt the hunger to fly.

Her pain grew intolerable.

She took a pill to sleep.

And when she woke up she went to work, kind of awake, but still dormant.

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And every minute of every day as her ache grew and her stomach churned, she kept on working furiously; though every time she showed up later and left earlier and did less and less as she kicked more and more with her many tired legs, wanting so badly to crossover but not taking that first step.

She stayed at the bottom of the stairs, looking hungrily at the threshold up there, at the light shining through it.

At the promise.

Dare to cross the threshold. YOU are the promise!

Maria Mar: About this poem Millions of women all around the world are feeling the urgent call to emerge as their Butterfly Self. This is the call of Earth Mother. The Goddess Mother Creatress needs YOU to assume your Sacred Feminine Leadership, to own your authority and to trust your beautiful unique gifts, sharing them with the world.

If you feel this call, you are part of a wave that brings balance to our planet and peace to humanity. I am here to help you free your true voice, own your creative mojo and become the Dream you already are in your soul. Join the MagicMark your Life community to receive this magazine, blog digest, videos, greetings and invitations to our life-changing events. Dare to cross the threshold. YOU are the promise!

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Section 2

Tips and tools for the woman who dares to dream BIG and live it!

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Joyfully assert your Right to Happiness Your right to happiness is like laughter. It can be contagious. It is healing.

But women have been embedded with the belief that when we are happy we are selfish…

This fall, joyfully, lovingly and creatively assert your right to be happy as a woman and in so doing, you will help your loved ones to value the Sacred feminine and reconnect to Earth.

Your right to happiness is like laughter.

It can be contagious. It is healing. But women have been embedded with the belief that when we are happy we are selfish; that when we do what we want, we are somehow stealing from our loved ones.

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In this article, I’ll share five rights that you can nurture in your life right now.

The Right to Be Be. You don’t have to work that hard.

The Sacred Feminine teaches that your gifts are embedded in your presence.

Breathe deeply. Align with your heart and listen to your body, doing what relaxes and nourishes it.

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As you breathe, become aware that you have a right to be in this world. Extend that consciousness to the experience that you are a part of this world. Your cells dance with Earth’s frequency. Your heart pulsates to Earth’s heartbeat. Take time with your cycles, your presence and your being. This is a gift for everyone because they will also slow down and reconnect to themselves and to this Earth.

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You have the right, the power and the responsibility to create the life that makes your heart sing.

Your happiness is the best example you can give your children, students and young people under your care. It is the best aphrodisiac for your marriage. If you have to choose between what makes you happy and the dishes, let the dishes go!

The right to create the life you want Are you living the life you want?

Happiness starts with giving yourself permission to experience what you enjoy.

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Find simple, doable ways to enjoy and create a life that nourishes your soul, evolves your spirit and expresses your brightest potential. You can give that right to ALL women by taking it for yourself.

Your daughters will thank you for this! Create a time and space in your home and calendar to move towards your Dream and to do the changes necessary to achieve the life your soul longs for.

That’s the reason you are here.

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You are the gift!

When you take time for yourself, your presence is a present for those around you!

The right to embody your purpose You came here for a purpose, and it was not to be a family member. That is part of your life, and important one, but it is NOT your purpose. If you’ve chosen to birth a child, motherhood is part of your life purpose, but it is probably not your ENTIRE purpose.

Give yourself permission and space to embody your purpose and to be the change you want in the world. You are a world citizen, a force that can move humanity forward. Your voice matters.

Your influence matters.

Take yourself seriously as an influencer.

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The right to be your own priority For centuries, women were trained to put everyone else first. It is right that you put your kids first, of course. That

is part of what being a mother is. But make sure that you don’t dump your own self-betrayal on your kids. That’s a tough burden to grow up with.

Family is a community. Distribute the chores among all, get the support you need and take time each week to be a priority in your life. Otherwise, you may suffer terribly when your children are grown up and leave the house, because you’ve forsaken your identity and don’t know how to be with yourself.

Secondly, you will pass the wound of selflessness and self-betrayal to your children, especially to your girls, and thus you will be an accomplice to the enslavement of women and the devaluing of the Sacred Feminine.

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Train your children to value your time and let them know that their participation in the family is valuable.

TIP: Think: what ageappropriate tasks could each of them be doing?

Create a Task Board.

Furthermore, as a mother, you need to teach your children to cooperate in community. By sharing family chores, they are empowered and your time is freed up.

Assume your leadership by valuing your Dreams, goals and purpose and your own being as priorities.

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Each member will feel needed and important. The children will feel proud and necessary. They will show initiative and (sigh) they will appreciate you more!

You will begin to observe that you are feeling your connection to Earth Mother more strongly. You may want to take your family more into nature. You may find yourself laughing, dancing, feeling light and feeling the power and grace of your presence. And this is who you are.

Beautiful sister, you are the embodiment of the Goddess Mother Creatress.

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Section 3

Catch the Dream Express Ride from your pressing problems to your brightest potential.

In this section you get some treats and previews from

Angelina and the Law of Attraction inspirational novel and the

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The Power of “What If…?”

The WhatIf is an alchemical artifact that your imagination can use, like a magic wand. But ~ to mix metaphors~ it’s a doubleedged wand. It can summon possibility or impediments.

The power of your imagination is akin to the power of a cosmic lighthouse that attracts and guides an infinite number of ships to land. It can steer the ships of possibility, creativity, invention, discovery, wisdom and potential results.

One of the chief alchemical artifacts that your imagination uses is the “WhatIf.” (In other words, asking yourself “What If?”) The WhatIf is an alchemical artifact that your imagination can use, like a magic wand. But ~ to mix metaphors~ it’s a double-edged wand. It can summon possibility or impediments.

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The Positive WhatIf is at the root of some of the most brilliant discoveries and inventions in human history. It is a key that opens the doors to your Creative Genius.

Let me share the story of how I got inspired to write the novel Angelina & the Law of Attraction in the first place.

I was buying my metrocard in the New York subway system, ~which is a featured urbanscape in the novel~ when I began to sense, then see the high level of stress and the overwhelming rush of the commuters. It was clear that though they were in a hurry, they were not particularly happy to head where they were going.

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To Shift the WhatIf, flip the Negative WhatIf into a Positive WhatIf! At that moment, the WhatIf wand nodded my imagination, and I found myself wondering:

“What if there was a Dream Express that we could take and it would deliver us directly into our Dream, our purpose, our brightest potential?”

Right then and there the novel Angelina & the Law of Attraction was born! That’s the power of the Positive WhatIf. It manifests possibilities that you may not even have thought of minutes earlier. It helps you to solve problems and find alternatives. It is a power-pack artifact you want to carry at all times in your imaginative backpack.

Now to the other edge of the sword ~I mean the wand! LOL Unfortunately, most of us tend to carry the Negative Whatif in our imaginative backpacks more ~much more~ often than we carry the Positive WhatIf. Negative Whatifs are the most popular way in which people kill their dream and choke their creative potential.

“What if they don’t like it?

What if I make a mistake?

What if they reject me?

What if it doesn’t work?”

Fortunately, the solution is simple.

Shamans, remember, work with perception because perception creates reality. So here’s a simple shamanic tool: Shift your WhatIf. When you take out a Negative WhatIf from your imaginative backpack, remember that it has two edges. Simply flip the edge!

Shift the Negative WhatIf into a Positive Whatif !

For example, if your Negative WhatIf is “What if no one takes me seriously?” flip it to “What if others are thinking the same and I open a new line of inquiry?”

If your Negative WhatIf is “What if I fail?” then flip it to “What if I succeed beyond my wildest imagination?”

Flipping the WhatIf is a way of releasing learned fears and old scripts and embracing instead the best possible outcome and your brightest potential.

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Angelina and the Law of Attraction is an inspirational story about a woman who is on the verge of giving up on her dream and unique gifts to “settle down,” make money and satisfy other people’s expectations.

Angelina is taking the train to what she believes is her destination, ~her new corporate job~ when she meets a magical lady who guides her to her true destiny.

The ordinary train ride becomes a quest for Angelina to find her DreamSelf, the part of her soul that carries her dream and that is now sequestered and rapidly fading.

Will Angelina have the wisdom to spot and release the obstacles she has unconsciously created in her life? Will she have the courage and stealth to save her DreamSelf and become her most cherished Dream?

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Section 4

Your Dream Crossover Sacred Feminine Leadership, Creation and Entrepreneurship

In this section, you look at the story you are telling yourself now, release the parts of the story that do not serve your leadership, purpose-based practice or business, and change your story to one in which you are a star!

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Experts Say! The Business of Dreaming

Book Review by Maria Mar Book: Power up for Profits Author: Kathleen Gage Recommended for: Dreampreneurs, authors, healers and other experts who want to start-up, profit-up or upgrade their purpose-based business so that it generates profits.

I’ve been a fan of Kathleen Gage for years, and this book reminds me why.

In “Power up for Profits” Kathleen once again shows her gift to help entrepreneurs make money by placing one foot in front of the other instead of running ourselves into the ground.

For business starters, it’s a primer on how to build a profitable foundation for your business, and the book is full of ideas that you can immediately implement.

For those dreampreneurs, spiritpreneurs or fempreneurs who have been working for a while and have gained some visibility and clients, it’s a system-check up that will allow you to see what

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aspects of your business are not generating income, why and how to course-correct for profitability and how to grow from there.

Kathleen’s core message is that you can build a spiritually-founded, valueanchored and purpose-based business that makes you money. I like that message! Do you? Then read on!

My bottom line for this book:

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Profitability needs to be a mindset.

Kathleen helps you with this.

Here are the three things I like best about this book.

Kathleen makes making money simple In this book, Kathleen takes the overwhelm out of business building with her ability to make complex things simple.

This, without painting an easy picture –as so many online marketers unfortunately do– creating despair when you start following their advice.

Kathleen does the opposite. She shows you ways to make complex things simple by focusing your intention, taking effective actions, prioritizing profits and using your time wisely.

As a matter of fact, I followed her advice immediately, booking time in my calendar for profit-making activities, and I am now overflowing with ideas on how to make quick cash, whereas before I could not come up with a single new idea.

With Kathleen Gage's "Power Up for Profits", you can generate profit from your purpose.

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In my latest survey, a popular complaint of spiritual, creative women with a purpose-based business was lack of time to grow their business. Ouch!

Get out of there fast!

Building for profitability Kathleen is a grounded, organized and common-sense coach and business woman who helps you create strong foundations that become the channels for your money flow. She goes straight for the core of your business prosperity: growing your list and cultivating your relationships with your subscribers and clients, creating effective products that sell and marketing and selling them. She shows you how to prioritize these things and get rid of the fluff.

Believe me, you can save years ~even decades~ from your learning curve by building your business foundation and systems for profitability. As a matter of fact, profitability needs to be a mindset.

Kathleen helps you with this.

Kathleen Gage is the queen of no fluff! She goes straight for what makes you money.

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Master your Mind to make a living from your Message Kathleen is an action taker and helps you to “go get it.” Yet she is compassionately aware of the forces that hold us back. She understands and addresses the importance of mindset.

In each chapter of “Power Up for Profits” you will bump into those excuses, fears and beliefs that are stopping you right now, and Kathleen helps you tame those dragons while moving forward.

Power Up for Profits has in-build mindset check points to help you see what's hurting your money.

This is Tweetable! Click To Tweet This book is a great read that can power you up for profits In “Power up for Profits!” Kathleen breaks down the complex tasks that lead to a successful business and offers moving stories, great examples, practical how-tos and expert insight into each of them.

This book is a smooth sailing through the sea of affluence. It begins with understanding your business as an expression of who you are, continues by guiding you into understanding who you are here to serve and follows by showing you powerful but doable ways to attract your tribe.

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If you are starting your business, getting sidetracked, at a loss for what to do or not making the money you want, “Power up for Profits” is your primer to monetizing your business with simple but effective actions.

I’m a fan!

As you can see, I’m a fan!

That’s because Kathleen has helped me throughout my road as a dreampreneur.

When I need no-fluff common sense, yet spiritually aligned tools, I refer to Kathleen.

In fact, I follow her wherever she goes.

I watch all her videos, slideshare presentations and read her posts. She is one of my business role models.

I am a creatress and spiritual teacher, and my greatest asset is my creative genius. Kathleen keeps me grounded and focused on the practical side of my business. If you need help with this, she’s your guide!

My recommendation to you:

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Featured Inspirational Story Maria Mar

Why NOT me?

“Why not me?”

Stella wiggled in the chair. She was looking at the website of an obvious star in her field. A tinge of envy mixed in with Stella’s admiration.

She blushed, feeling ashamed. This woman had worked hard for her triumph, and Stella refused to cloud that achievement with her petty feelings. She dispatched her Shadow and shifted to a place of gratitude.

She thanked her spiritual guides that brought her to this virtual place.

Laurel Forest was shining like a star in her magenta dress. The photography seemed to capture her as she was dancing, for there was movement and grace in her body as she stood to the left of the screen, occupying an important space in the site.

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Follow

YOUR Light

Stella wiggled again. Two feelings, both intense, were fighting inside. She breathed deeply as she focused on Laurel’s image.

As she wiggled again, Stella realized that her body was torn in a battle and that the wiggling was the expression of the battle.

The joyful, confident woman in a high quality photo framed the site, which featured bold feminine colors: magenta, turquoise and gold accents. The whole design said successful, bold, rich, quality, feminine and “I am an expert. Stop looking. I have what you need.”

Yes, she was feeling uncomfortable.

But it was not with Laurel. She was grateful that Laurel existed, that she was generous enough to offer a free handout and seminar which had benefited Stella; actually catapulted her to come to this virtual place and immerse herself in Laurel’s presentation. Her discomfort was with herself.

“I’m uncomfortable.”

The wiggling was about being uncomfortable.

“Am I uncomfortable with her power or with mine?” Stella wondered.

“Why? I’m happy with the new insights Laurel shared,” Stella wondered.

“And I’m grateful for her generosity. I love her site. It inspires me to…”

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And then she felt it. She felt the tension in the trunk of her body. Stella followed the wiggling, even exaggerated it and really got into it, as she would get into any dance, for dancing was her passion and her purpose.

Her womb was pumping power strongly, connecting with Laurel’s bold assertion of her authority and expression of her personality. No “ifs” or “buts” here. This site was a declaration… no… a celebration of Laure’s Essence and her valuable gifts.

Stella’s pelvis felt strong, inspired and wanted to get up and dance, and go do it. Her pelvis pulled Stella to express her passion; to own her expertise in dance and movement as paths to wellness.

“Do it. Dance your Dream. Do it. You can do it too. Go for it. Dance your wisdom. Do it,” the rhythm in her pelvis drummed. Her womb was overflowing with joy!

Her heart filled to the rim with inspiration, gratitude and joy.

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Yes, you could have a photo of your full figure dancing in your website.

Why had she not dared to do it, when all her body wanted to? Why had she thought it too bold, not professional enough? Why had she settled for a small headshot?

She looked at her website side by side to Laurel’s site. Her photo was squeezed in a corner, as most authors are. It was all about words, not movement.

Everything was boxed in and small.

But Stella’s heart knew of the greatness within her, of the majesty of her dance and the power in her song. And Stella’s pelvis knew of the power in her stance.

Why wasn’t this expressed in her site? Was it expressed in her coaching?

Her flyers? Her speaking? Was she playing small?

Her heart was pulling the strings of her wings.

“Trust your imagination, Stella. Trust your intuition. Do it your way.

Do what brings you joy.

Dare to imagine and find the way to express it. You are different. You are unique. You don’t have to do it like everyone else.”

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Let’s connect heart-to-heart

Do you have a story to tell me? Are you, like Stella, facing doubts, obstacles, fear or overwhelming challenges? Perhaps you’ve found some answers, while others remain a question. Share your story with me. I will reply and I may write my next story based on your journey!

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But in the middle of her trunk the inner war still raged, twisting her waist.

She heard her solar plexus.

“Who are you to think that you can be as big, as bold and as visible as that woman? That woman probably has lots of money and a professional team that took the photos and built the website and that does everything for her. So of course, she looks good. But you don’t have that kind of money. You are just starting, and you should be more humble. You should be more practical.”

“But…” Stella protested.

“But you need to think it more carefully. To plan it better. To buy a better video camera, because you need to do video for movement. You need to hire a video producer.

You need to save more money. You are not ready.”

“It’s been three years now that I’ve been planning my launch and my videos.

When am I going to be ready?” Stella muttered, wiggling again. This time she was impatient.

“When it’s good enough,” the voice inside her mind answered. Stella recognized this voice. It was familiar; habitual, really.

She remembered something that Laurel had shared in the teleseminar.

When she started her business, Laurel didn’t know how to make a website, so she had learned how to do a blog in WordPress. She started blogging and sharing her writings with other experts in her field. She didn’t have money to buy a video camera, so she had bought a cheap webcam and talked into the camera. She had used what she had at the moment to start.

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“It’s not

the tools, the money or the resources you have. It’s who you are. It’s your willingness to give and share and connect. That’s what did it for me and that’s what will do it for you! Trust who you are in all its fullness and persist in expressing it joyfully.” Laurel had said at the end of the teleseminar.

“Why not me?” Stella asked again.

But this time her eyes shone. This time there was no whining, no complaining, and no playing small in her voice.

“I am graceful. I am strong. I am funny. I am joyful. I am magical. I am

the dance of life,” her heart sang, and Stella began to sing out loud.

She got up and danced “I am, I am, the dance of Life…” her hips swayed gracefully. “I am joy. I am magic. I am grace…” her heart guided her movement. Her waist let go and she was free of doubt and perfectionism.

As she danced, her spine relaxed and stretched. She felt taller and lighter. And then, her right foot stumbled.

“I’m afraid!” her right foot said.

And Stella danced her fear. She danced her fear of being rejected, of looking stupid, of falling when she danced, of being laughed at, of failing.

And as she danced, her fear dissolved into bliss. Ecstatic, Stella kept on dancing, for dancing was her passion and her purpose.

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Dream Star Gazing

Nitika Chopra The creator of Bella Life Magazine, Nitika has a story of overcoming pain, disease and big obstacles by focusing on her two main values: healing and happiness.

“Although I only launched Bella Life in March 2010, it was shortly after my 10th birthday that I developed a skin condition called Psoriasis. This diagnosis has proved to be my biggest teacher in my life and has fueled much of my work. ” This is how Nitika describes her journey in the pages of her digital magazine, Bella Life where she shares the story of how she struggled for decades with psoriasis, suffering from its effects: pain, depression, a host of health conditions, stress, poor grades and feeling like an outcast.

After hiding for years, Nitika was tired of defining herself as a sick person and did a profound shift of attention. She found a treatment that dissolved her psoriasis. Without losing a beat, Nitika birthed Bella Life and found her tribe!

“I absolutely love the community that has been created through this work and if you have ever been to one of our events, you know exactly what I mean! These events are best described by people coming together to empower each other and break through whatever blocks them from healing their mind, body or soul.”

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Nitika says: “Through the ups and downs of my condition, I have learned to flex the muscle of letting go of the intense need to control. I have strengthened my relationship with the divine. I have the kind of compassion that comes from knowing what it’s like to be the underdog, to be an outcast. The lessons I have learned from having Psoriasis have made me the person that I am today and I am humbled and honored that I get to share what I have learned with you.”

Nitika gets her own talk show!

It took Nitika about 3 years to get Bella Life to where she wanted. Meanwhile, she secretly harbored a dream: to have her own talk show. And then she miraculous manifested it. Her persistence with Bella Life Magazine, her courage to transcend the psoriasis and share her gifts with the world, and her dedication to doing her dream paid off. Nitika got her own talk show! Click on the video below to find out the whole story.

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Section 5

Butterfly Woman

Corazón Tierra In this Special Section we feature a woman just like you, who is undergoing her metamorphosis from Caterpillar Self to Butterfly Woman and is sharing her unique gifts with the world.

Our first issue features the poster woman for the Butterfly You! Contest and our first cover woman, Corazón Tierra.

Support this Butterfly Woman!

When you read her story, we want you to take a moment to support this powerful sister in her goals by doing two things: • Take the actions she requests from you and • Send a prayer or positive thought for the intention she sets up in this issue.

Thanks for supporting the flight of an extraordinary woman!

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Butterfly Woman

I began the journey to become my Dream with the realization that in spite of wanting to be a dancer, I was alienated from my body because I had been anorexic since childhood.

Corazón Tierra in her dance performance “The Goddess’ Vessel”

My metamorphosis included befriending my body, reclaiming my grace, healing my anorexia, daring to go to dance classes and eventually, registering for professional dance training. Today I am Butterfly Woman. I am the dancer I wanted to be. But I am much more; I have gifts that I could not have imagined when I set up in my journey. The journey itself creates many gifts!

Read the full story here!

Corazón’s Action Request #1: "Donate funds to cover my tuition expenses for the MA Dance & Somatic Wellbeing, a graduate program that will widen my knowledge about the healing power of dance. This program will help me to help women love their bodies at a higher level. Go to: http://www.gofundme.com/3zix9o."

This request is a crowd funding request by Corazon. This magazine has no direct connection to this request other than helping her meet her goals. You should do your due diligence whenever funding a project.

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Corazón Tierra About the Journey

Because in my metamorphosis I healed my eating disorder at a deep level, I developed a system to help women love their bodies and love themselves as they are.

This is the Beloved BodySoul System (CuerpoAdentro) Because I learned to deal with food in a creative way, as my ally instead of my enemy; healthy nutrition and food became my expert topics as a writer and editor.

Corazón Tierra in her dance-poetry performance “The Goddess’ Vessel”

Corazón Tierra in her dance performance “Nine Faces of the Earth”

Because I healed through diving into my soul through writing stories and poetry, today I am a fiction and nonfiction writer and blend the modalities to help women heal their relation with their bodies.

And because I developed ways of moving and experiencing the body for wellness, today I offer dance meditations and other healing movement tools to help women love their bodies, achieve inner peace and integrate their bodies into their personal growth.

With the gifts I gathered in my journey from Caterpillar Self to Butterfly Woman, I have helped thousands of women in three continents.

Corazón Tierra’s Intention The intention I want you to support through prayer, meditation or dance is this:

“May I help 1,000 women around the world within a year with my Goddess Dance Meditation Project.”

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Corazón Tierra Before: Caterpillar Self After: Butterfly Woman Corazón’s Action #2 Request

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Enjoy your Body

by Corazón Tierra

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Prizes: •Third Place: The beautiful inspirational novella A Place for Roses + 30-minute conversation with Maria Mar + your story published in one issue of Butterfly You! •Second Place: the Go from Blocked to Brilliant Home Study Course, a 90-minute private consultation with Maria Mar to help you express your creative mojo and share your gifts with the world and your story published in one issue of Butterfly You! •First Place: The above + a copy of the book “Power up for Profit” by Kathleen Gage, + your story featured in an issue of Butterfly You! where you will be featured in the magazine cover , + free 6-months membership… and more!

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Submit your Butterfly You story in any of these formats: video, writing or audio, with a written summary and links to the full story, plus at least one full-figure high resolution photo.

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Featured Art

Love Yourself, Love your Body, Love your Curves

By Maria Mar

I created this to celebrate the Love your Curves Day some years ago. This reminds me of an affirmation prayer I’d love to share with you: I am Perfect for my Purpose. It’s easy and powerful. Get it here! Maria Mar