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EDEN MAGAZINE

May 2012 Volume 2 Issue 5

spreading compassion to all sentient beings and Living in healing and peaceful world Editor

Maryam Morrison

Front Cover Anahid Bermudez Eden Magazine is an independent monthly online magazine. Our aim is to create a better environment where we live among other living being in peace and harmony. We support artists that their work match our criteria. If you would like to submit your artwork, article or/and your Photography For our future issues please contact Maryam Morrison at; edenmagazine@hotmail.com or www.theedenmagazine.com 2 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • May 2012

Anahid Bermudez

4 Elliot Eli Jackson

8 Anticipation

10 My painful lesson

14 The benefit of laugher

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Keith Barnard

22 Falcon Bird

24 Tapping into the Fullness of who we are

26 Beluga Whale

30 Healing Past, Hurts & Events

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nahid BermĂşdez

was born in Barcelona (Spain) and currently resides in the same city.

Having also a wide geographycal mobility all over the world for photoshoots.

From an early age, she showed interest in photography and art, this interest has accompanied her throughout her life in different ways. She is found of nature and many of her works are inspired by fantasy and historical recreation and considers photography an art expression method for creating a fantasy world where anything is possible. She has had the pleasure of working with renowned Spanish artists dedicated to photography which has much appreciation for taking the time and work.

In 2009 she began her career as a model participating in many kinds of projects, being published in many issues of nationally and internationally journals. Actually, she is a experienced model and loves her work.

She currently combines her modeling career with her work and this year is working on several book projects that will be shown in 2013.

She is available for all kinds of works related to photography and Ilusation.

You can contact her through anahidbermudez.fotoplatino.com webpage (in Spanish) http://www.fotoplatino.com/fp13375 7 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • May 2012

Elliott Eli Jackson Elliott Eli Jackson is an inspirational speaker, Reiki Master, and author of The Sapiential Discourses which is to be released this year.

He has also authored the best-selling nonfiction book From God to You: Absolute Truth, and Cacophony, a collection of poetry about life, love, and spirit. Elliott channels All there is, was, and ever shall be. Elliott and his wife Diane tour America presenting workshops in which Source speaks through Elliott to the audience, answering questions as well as giving spiritual guidance.

The workshops focus on obtaining and maintaining success in today’s world. For more information visit www.quantummatrixcenter.com

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A Message From God Earth is truly a garden of Eden. Therefore, it is quite appropriate to give you a message of hope, light, and love in this online magazine. The Internet is, of course, one of the tools given to mankind for information and knowledge. Many will say that there are things and subjects of a dark nature on the World Wide Web and this is true. However, in the general scope of things, overall good sound information for learning and remembering who you are, a creator, is in the forefront.

All things are, yes, connected within your known and unknown universes. This statement is singularly one of the most important truths that you will ever come to know.

Many today are realizing that humans are connected to and with the rocks, trees, rivers, streams, oceans, all sea dwelling creatures, and all other forms of animals on planet earth. When one comes to understand this, life, as you understand it to be, becomes much easier. This occurs on a deep spiritual level. The spirit that dwells within you already knows this, it is the mental and emotional portions of your being that must be convinced of the reality of such. Early man knew that the seasons and the weather could be predicted by animals. Animals also led men to water when none was visible to the naked eye.

Early man understood that, by studying the grasses and shade trees, he could tell time. Additionally, by viewing the growth of moss on rocks and hillsides, man could tell if the ground nearby would be appropriate

for planting. Yes, nature has always aided man and womankind in finding its way.

Nature always understood its connection to mankind and the entire universe.

WE bring this up to you fore it is time for a mass concerted effort by humans to take better care of mother/father earth, and understand the connection between nature and man. If you do so, many of the sad situations on earth will subside. Situations like the pollution of waterways, land erosional effects, and the endangerment of many species will dissipate. By using the sun more, great strides in energy will come about. As the new era of enlightenment beckons man, more information will and is coming forth about how sound and vibration are paramount to healing. More information on the nature of angels and your other helpers is being shed. People, such as the publisher of this magazine, are taking the lead in providing much needed spiritual guidance for the masses. And it is all good.

The time is here for all of you to remember more about your sacred self. The time is here for more to achieve their goals. The time is here for you to reach a new level of vibration, and a new level of success and happiness. Are you ready for positive change? Are you ready to have loving relationships? Are you ready to find out how your past lives connect to this one? Are you ready to reach others with healing light and love? Are you READY? 9 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • May 2012

ANTICIPATION

By Ellen Heller

How many of us remember the song by Carly Simon, “Anticipation?” ....all about not being sure what is going to happen; hoping, praying, fretting, and overanxious about a possible outcome, hope or dream. Sound familiar?

Haven’t we all, or presently, been in anticipation over something, whether we wish for it or do not?

Impatience is something that is part of fear...False Evidence Appearing Real... we anticipate that we will be happy or sad, and cannot understand why we are even thinking about it..but thinking we do...over and over and over again, usually until we work ourselves into an ‘outcome’ that has not yet manifested in our reality...at least, not yet!

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Usually, when something then ‘shows up’ that we do not want, we actually wonder how it got there! However, if we examine our thoughts and FEELINGS prior to that outcome, we will realize that we indeed, did create it and bring it to us, whether our perception of it is a good or bad experience; your thoughts will bring to you what you are thinking or feeling...consciously or unconsciously!

Anticipation is healthy if it’s a “I wonder what is going to happen” attitude; quite another if the feelings are, “why isn’t it happening faster? When will it be here? or I don’t want it to come or happen,” etc...

On Earth, as we are here in this realm, Time appears to be real, but in Truth, there is only one grand moment, with different vibrational frequencies constantly in motion, and we are all vibrating to different frequencies that place us in different realms, experiencing our own ‘private’ realities. Therefore, it does not matter how much we ponder or fret or worry or anticipate about a possible outcome; in Truth, you and I and all of Life are making it up as we go along.... so to worry or get going on a re-occurring thought that brings one around and around, just is a simple waste of ‘time’ and energy. Our thoughts will produce one of countless possible outcomes, as Quantum Physics has stated time and time again. And the wonderful thing about this is that this is always an opportunity; basically because it is always, in all ways, our choice!

Whenever you catch yourself (and that

is a very good thing to become... the “Observer” of your experience) anticipating about an outcome that has not yet occurred, it may serve you to instead, picture/image the outcome of your desire; yes, literally, STOP thinking about how to get there, or what you can DO, and simply picture in your mind your already having it, and FEEL happy. Do this until you can feel elated, happy, joyful...then just release it to the Universe and do everything in the Moment of Now. How? By ‘listening’ to that quiet voice inside (some call it ‘intuition’ or God), and do what you can in the Moment of Now to reach your goal/dream; most importantly, feeling GOOD while doing so. Then do all you can to ‘let it go.’ This does not mean forgetting about it; it means to stop worrying about it.

It works every time, never stops working, and is fun, once you practice imaging/ visualization because it is the purest way to create, effortlessly bringing forth the Life experience you wish to have.

And that is why the Master, Jesus said, “What I can do, so can you...” he said this because he knew the creative power of our thoughts, and the power of visualization. When he was asked to heal... he simply pictured that person as the perfection they Really Are, and the illusion of ill health vanished immediately, restoring that Being back to perfection.

And, as stated, ‘As Above, so Below’... what is possible through Love, is possible for All.

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Ask Ellen Heller

Q& A

Spirit-Minded (Advice Column)

Kind Guidance for Creating and Accepting Spiritual Health

“All questions can be sent to:

spiritmindedblog@gmail.com

We will do our best to answer as many questions as we can.

If you wish for a question, answered personally, please request this and attach your email address.

We will do the best we can to provide an answer, based on our volume of correspondence.

Blessings!”

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Question: Dear Spirit-Minded: I had been diagnosed with Leukemia for the past 12 years. I have a good family life (wife, kids, etc.) and feel so lucky to be alive, as I almost died twice this past year due to medication problems.

I keep wondering why I have gotten these chances as so many people die from this disease in a much shorter time span. I keep thinking I am here for a reason, in that some ‘special’ situation is going to show up, but it never does. I just don’t know why I survived or what to think of this. From Feeling Guilty.

further from the truth. We have come to live and experience life, and Love asks for nothing but to Be. If I could sum it up with one thought, it would be that Love only asks for us to ‘just breathe.’

To do this is important enough. Blessings!

Answer: Your question contains part of your answer you are seeking. The fact that you feel ‘lucky’ to be alive states that you are in complete gratitude for this chance to be with your loved ones, experiencing life. Most likely even mediocrity appeals to you and probably you enjoy just the simple things in life; a walk, watching a movie, etc. It doesn’t mean you do not aspire to wishing for more or better, and it doesn’t mean that you don’t have your trials and bad days. But it appears that for the most part, you are very thankful to be alive, and it is only pressure from our upbringing in this world that you may feel guilty for not ‘doing more,’ or having some big ‘life mission’ to fulfill.

The fact that you are here is enough.

So much of our societal messages give us the feeling that if we don’t utilize every moment, keeping busy and productive, and/or constantly improving ourselves, that somehow we have just been ‘wasting time.’ Nothing could be

Answer: As we have been given the gift to create, we are not limited by anything but ourselves. It is not something to be ashamed of in wanting more. The question one may ask is “what is my intention?” Why do you wish to become rich and famous? Everything is a matter of what we wish to Be in relation to a situation, person, or outcome. And the easiest and fastest way to become anything you wish is to cause another to have their highest goals/dreams fulfilled; for in doing so, you give to yourself, for we are All One. As a great Master once said, ‘...what you do to my brethren, you do to me.’

Therefore, look to see what you Love; focus only on Love and most importantly, remember to include everyone in your desire to be rich....a wonderful prayer is a prayer of gratitude, thanking for yourself, as well as everyone else to be taken care of.

Question: Dear Spirit-Minded: I want to be rich and famous! Is this all ego?

So many times I feel that there just has to be more to life then this ho-hum existence...am I wrong to desire a bigger life? And how do I get there?

From Confused.

Blessings!

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My PAINFUL Lesson By; “Michele Rabbitt Billman seekscapes@hotmail.com People say “No pain, no gain”. This statement has always made me chuckle to myself, until recently I had to face a painful physical challenge that shook me to my core. My blinding pain made it hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Hurt, hopelessness and helplessness was all part of this journey. This is my story on how the Light reached out and pulled me victoriously to the other side of the tunnel.

suffocating in my own body. Introducing a multi-vitamin into my daily routine helped me for a short time but even that didn’t make a difference after awhile. All I could think about was taking a nap, but being a busy wife, mom and the caretaker of my mom, naps were a rare luxury. I kept thinking to myself all the way to the gym, I don’t have time to be hurt, I’ll just have to suck it up and “walk off” the pain.

At 4:15 AM I woke up with pain in my left hip. I figured I just slept on it wrong or my Pilates class was catching up to me from the day before. Even though I hurt and felt like a walking zombie, I hobbled off to my cycling class. I was hoping the exercise would melt away my pain. I started exercising at 5 AM to get my energy flowing early so it would sustain my stamina throughout the whole day. The exercise classes were helping me deal with everyday stress, but I still felt drained of energy, almost like I was

This pain was in the same place as an old jogging injury from a few years ago, but deep down I knew something was different. I usually do Reiki healings on myself to help me feel better, but my regular energy felt off and my healing energy wasn’t flowing hardly at all. I knew needed some assistance from an outside source. I decided to go to my family doctor who just started doing acupuncture treatments.

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I was sorely disappointed when my family doctor recommended muscle relaxers and steroid pills. My doctor said it would take multiple acupuncture treatments to make a difference. Since I was in so much pain, he wanted me to try the traditional prescription medicines to treat my hip problem. My brain went numb at the thought of using these pills. In the last fifteen years, I’ve been either highly allergic to prescription drugs, or they have been totally ineffective and a waste of my hard earn money. I was so desperate for relief from my intense nerve pain, I filled the prescriptions knowing that they may not even work on me.

When I got home from the doctor’s office and the pharmacy, I was exhausted from hobbling around on one good leg. I decided to relax and meditate to help prepare myself before taking my anti-inflammatory medicine. I was praying that this time the drugs would work wonders on my worn out body. Later when I woke up, my nose and chest had started to congest, I must have caught my family’s cold. Plus, I discovered that I started my period, twelve days early. I thought what else could go wrong! I heated up a mug of water in the microwave so I could make some tea, hoping it would cheer me up. When I grabbed the mug out of the microwave the hot water sloshed over the rim and burnt my ring finger on my right hand. I couldn’t believe my luck, at that moment I felt spiritually broken and abandoned. Mentally I couldn’t take anymore problems with my physical being. With all the stress of the day, my twelve hour aspirin quit working eight hours too soon. My muscle relaxer medicine, of course, didn’t help my pain at all.

I kept my thoughts about how painful my pinched nerve was to myself, even to my immediate family. I didn’t want to alarm them and bring more stress into our home environment. I decided to put off taking my anti-inflammatory medicine for another day so I could start fresh in the morning.

Really, I was trying to fight off the feeling of being a failure at healing my body energetically. I sat quietly at the kitchen table staring at my prescribed steroid pills.

I said a small prayer about finding a natural remedy to manage my pain.

My 13 year old son looked at me while I was sitting at the kitchen table staring off into space. He walked around the house like he was on a mission, gathering items from around the house. Jacob put a piece of white paper on the table, then placed several clear quartz crystals on the paper and pointed all the crystals at me. Before he quietly walked away, he energetically united all the crystals as a group to connect with me to help take my pain away.

I asked Jacob how he knew about how to create a crystal grid, he said he didn’t. He was just following his instincts of what to do to help me deal with my discomfort.

I thought the whole idea was so sweet, his heart was in the right place. I would just go with the flow, I needed all the help I could get. After he walked away I felt a tremendous wave of energy surge all over my body. My hip pain dissolved very quickly, the hard kitchen chair was no longer hurting my pinched nerve! My cramps and my large blister on my hand were no longer bothering me either, at last relief from all my pain.

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Later that night with my heart filled with hope, I put the crystal grid by my bed and slept through the night for the first time in days.

When I woke up the next morning my hip was starting to spasm. I knew the crystal grid was only a temporary solution. Out of respect for my family doctor and desperation for feeling better, I started taking my anti-inflammatory medicine. The prescription was only for a week and from previous experience, I knew this pinched nerve would take longer than that to heal.

I brought out my crystal grid from the bedroom and laid it back on the kitchen table.

I had to be able to function away from this crystal grid, my family counted on me to be there for them throughout the day. I allowed the crystals to connect with me again, but this time, I was going to use them to help give me insight on my situation. Physically, my body was blocked and out of balanced; mentally, I was sinking fast into a helpless funk; spiritually, I felt hopeless and alone in my unbearable pain. I came to the conclusion I felt jealous of my son for coming up with a short term solution for my pain. Who was telling him what to do? He must have had spiritual help and believed that the information that was given to him would make a difference in my painful situation.

Why haven’t I had any inspiration for a long term solution? Where is my spiritual help?

Images of me before my injury flashed in my head. On a whim I wrote down the spice Turmeric on my shopping list but I didn’t buy any after I got to the store since it wasn’t a “necessity”. I heard it was good 16 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • May 2012

for aches and pains but I was too cheap to buy it at that time. Looking back, my healing guides were giving me the idea to buy Turmeric. They knew ahead of time I would need this spice, but I was too stubborn to listen. In my minds eye I could see them around me but felt no real connection from them. I realized they backed off a bit after I didn’t buy their suggested spice.

No wonder I felt all alone, energetically blocked and had no information on why my body was breaking down! I was so used to doing everything on my own in the physical world that my inflated ego was blocking me from listening to the spiritual world. I was a little offended that they let me suffer for over a week by myself with intense pain. I asked, “why didn’t you tell me about how to get rid of my terrible pain?” My healing guides replied, “because you didn’t ask”. Could buying something so simple be the answer to my prayers? While my medicine was keeping my hip pain in check I went to the store and bought the spice Turmeric.

My rational side was telling me to wait and use up the steroid pills so they don’t conflict with the Turmeric spice. In reality, I was fearful that my insight about the spice was wrong and my fragile spirit couldn’t handle it.

My rational side was telling me to wait and use up the steroid pills so they don’t conflict with the Turmeric spice. In reality, I was fearful that my insight about the spice was wrong and my fragile spirit couldn’t handle it. I googled some information about the spice Turmeric after I bought it, and learned that it was a natural antiinflammatory. I was cautiously optimistic,

I was praying that this would help me since I didn’t have a back-up plan. When my last steroid pill wore off, my hip pain came back with a vengeance.

my tea recipe and I was honored to share it with them. My healing tea recipe was given freely to me so I wanted to freely give it to anyone who would be interested in trying it. I no longer have any pain but I consulted with my healing guides on how I still drink the tea everyday to keep my to use the turmeric spice to help me feel energy and spirits up. better. They walked me through a hot tea recipe that included the spices Turmeric, The hot tea is like drinking a ray of sunGinger and Cinnamon. I was thankful that shine. I was grateful that my healing guides this tea recipe was very simple to make and never left my side while I endured this long tasted great. The extra spices my guides dark ordeal of dealing with my blinding suggested for me to use also helped with pain. I will always be thankful that when I all my problem areas! My spirits were lifted asked for their help they were right there to new heights, I felt loved again from the waiting for me. My healing guides were inside out. Each sip of tea I drank felt like a ready and wiling to pull me through so I warm hug from my healing guides. I drank could see their light and wisdom in their the whole pot of tea in one sitting, I felt simple solution to my complicated probmy energy slowly returning. I made an- lem. The pain was definitely worth the gain other pot of tea to share with my family of knowledge of crystal grids and healing for later on that evening. My family could spices. Not listening to my healing guides see I was feeling much better, better than was a painful lesson I will never forget.

I have in weeks. They asked me what my secret was since they were feeling under Hot Tea the weather from their lingering head and chest cold. My family and I drank the sec- Brewed with a 12 cup coffeemaker ond pot of tea, they were amazed on how 12 Cups Water much better they felt soon after drinking 1/4 tsp ground Turmeric the first cup of my healing tea. That night 1/8 tsp ground Ginger was the first 1/16 tsp ground Cinnamon time in a week we all slept soundly through 3-4 individual tea bags or ½ family size tea the night. bag -Just enough tea to lightly cover the bottom of the coffee filter My healing guides instructed me to drink Put 12 Cups of water in the coffeemaker. this tea throughout the day even when Put in coffee filter. Cut open the tea I didn’t feel any pain. Keeping the inflam- bags and combine all loose tea in coffee mation from building up was important filter, add ground spices and mix in with for my long term healing. Less swelling the tea so dry ingredients are all blended around my hip would lead to a quicker together. Turn on coffeemaker, allow recovery. I went back to my cycling class all the water to run through the tea mixture. four days later and told them my story of why I hadn’t been back. They all wanted 17 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • May 2012

The benefits of laughter

By Debra J. White (www.debrajwhite.com) 18 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • May 2012

Laughter is a tranquilizer without side effects says the late American humorist Arnold Glascow. Medical studies suggest laughter lowers the blood pressure, elevates mood, boosts the immune system and decreases pain. It is free medicine without side effects.

Laughter has grown into a multi-national movement with over 6,000 laughter clubs across the world unite people in such nations as Canada, France, Iran and Barbados. World-wide laughter conferences are devoted to the spread the joy of laughter. Police forces in Thailand motivate themselves with laughter.

Clubs in Mexican and South American prisons focus inmates to deal with long separations from family and friends.

Hospitals and nursing homes incorporate laughter for patients with serious diseases and/or injuries. A Midwestern pastor laughs into her Lutheran congregation.

Laughter heals for different reasons such as death of a loved one, marital discord, or unemployment. In January 2010 my own world collapsed. Disabled from a 1994 auto accident, Social Security keeps me afloat. Foreclosure on the home I shared edged closer and I panicked because I had two old dogs.

Leaving them wasn’t an option. I fretted about finding affordable pet-friendly housing.

Then I found the monthly laughter club at the Southwest Institute for Healing Arts (SWIHA) in Tempe AZ. For an hour people of all backgrounds laughed for

no reason. I released so much fear, frustration and anger that as soon as I got home I fell asleep. Since then, I’ve rarely missed a month.

Denise Tift, a regular at laughter club, says she was hooked the first time.

“It was quite healing in multiple ways.

I feel an amazing connection with others in the group.” Tift says she found a place to be herself.

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How did organized laughter begin? In 1995 the medicinal benefits of laughter interested Dr. Madan Kataria, an Indian physician. He asked strangers on a Mumbai street to laugh with him. That ultimately led to the creation of Laughter Yoga International (www.laughteryoga.com) that brings together laugher clubs from around the world.

People all over the globe regularly howl and scream in laughter clubs. There are no jokes, no gimmicks, just laughter for no reason. A laughter leader guides the group through exercises such as mental flossing, applying imaginary laughter cream and laughing as if you just won the lottery.

Afterwards, nearly everyone leaves with an upbeat attitude. Long-lasting bonds are formed. The only requirement to attend is an open mind. To find a laughter club near you visit www.laughteryoga. com. Laughter heals the mind, body, and soul. It unites people. We all laugh in the same language.

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Keith Barnard was born in London in 1950 and studied composition with Dr Arnold Cooke who was himself a pupil of Paul Hindemith.

Becoming esoterically minded, he embraced healing - and healing through colour and sound.

Keith Barnard An English Composer and Poet who has written a chamber opera, four orchestral symphonies, concerti for cello, piano, and organ, and numerous chamber works.

He composes music with colours in the title, and expresses the great white cosmic light - in works of varying length .

He has played his piano music in the Uk , USA, Thailand, Russia, Germany, Greece, Romania, Vienna, and has recorded many works for piano and synthesiser He has composed piano, vocal , choral, chamber and orchestral music.

He has a CD of his music out now - including three of his piano works , performed by the distinguished American pianist, Jeffrey Grossman . For the American Organist and Composer Carson Cooman, he has composed several Organ works - including The Universal Harmony Of Light, The Purest Silence Of The Divine and others.

Keith is also a poet, Currently he lives in London, UK

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Falcon Birds

http://www.animaltrial.com/falconbird.html

Powerful and fast-flying 24 THEDENMAGAZINE.COM • May 2012

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alcon General name given for Falconidae, a heterogeneous family of long-winged birds of prey closely related to the Hawk.

They were virtually eradicated from eastern North America by pesticide poisoning in the middle 20th century.

After significant recovery efforts, Peregrine Falcon has made an incredible rebound and is now a regular sight in many large cities and coastal habitats True falcons, are distinguished by their notched beaks. In flight, there wing beats our rapid and powerful. They survey prey from hundreds of feet at speeds of up to 175 mi an hour.

The cosmopolitan peregrine falcon (unromantically called duck call in the United States) the gyrfalcon of the Arctic tundra have been used in falconry.

The commonest and smallest American falcon is the sparrow hawk (related to the European kestrel). Others are the pigeon hawk (related to the European merlin).

Falcons, like cliff edges or in the abandoned nests of hawks and crows .

The falcon birds one real adversary and enemy is mankind. For many years the falcons were considered to be as vermin for they were thought to be a heavy toll on the livestock. However, now pesticides have been the main reason for devastating and jeopardizing several species. The first fossil record of the falcon family is from the Miocene Epoch of Argentina, which was present nearly 15 million years ago.

Today, there are eleven known fossil species. http://jayschindler.articlealley.com/learn-about-the-falcon-bird-644487.html

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TAPPING

INTO THE FULLNESS

OF WHO WE REALLY ARE 26 THEDENMAGAZINE.COM • May 2012

Inspiration to bringing you back home to your heart

Part Two By: Heather Auria Gaines www.PlayItForwardYoga.com

Transformations via Appreciation:

What happens when we Appreciate?

(Via Notes from Esther Hicks)

Appreciation Allows Celebration of The Moment Defining Appreciation-To see the nature of and increase the value of; Blocks Unhealthy Emotions that is a disconnection from source, so Appreciation • The vibration of true love is; when you will then Rocket us to plug back in and Stay see innocence of child, when you see connected to our heart and our internal joy, beauty in nature, when you are laughing, source, connection etc. smiling, and playing, when you look into someone’s eyes with love, when you hold We become stress resistant and attract hands and/or hug more joyful loving vibrations as the Law • It is the Alignment of Attraction States WHO YOU REALLY ARE! • It is the Absence of all that feels bad We strengthen connection to all relation- • And presence of all that feels good ships via; our self, family, community and • You can focus yourself more and more earth downstream to come back to your source • Love and Appreciation are the same!

We grow in our Self Worth, Inner Confidence, Inner Peace, Inner Trust; thus we in vibration with WHO WE REALLY ARE! 27 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • May 2012

The Difference between Appreciation and Gratitude:

Also if you are trying to fight something or win something, you are putting the belief that there is something to fight or something to win. If you focus on what you have to overcome your attention is placed there instead of focusing on the proactive and creative energy. Motivation is trying to make yourself to go somewhere. Do you have to force yourself down a stream? No! Naturally one can move beyond motivation when they have trust and instead naturally flow with the law of attraction/ manifestation and simply choose love and positive feelings and energies of peace.

Gratitude - Looking at struggle you have overcome. Again, focusing on anything that is not in alignment with source and happiness only attracts that. So you may bring up those feelings that are not posi tive and attract that. Every tell a story of victory of something that you overcome when it still brings up sadness? Whatever you bring into the awareness of this moment will be where your attention is and what you vibrate at. If you can say it with no upsetting feeling then great. But also notice people’s reactions. Is there a mix of upsetting responses mixed in? “O no, you went through such terrible etc. etc.” So Appreciation Alignment of really it is best to leave the story be- WHO YOU REALLY ARE! hind and get to the meat and potatoes Inspiration is being called to who you on what you learned! are. Thus you naturally flow with the I personally realized this as someone natural vibration of love. Thus you dear to me said that I was getting upset in travel right towards your destination in saying how grateful I was for getting each moment which feel within; happy, through some challenges. At the time I peaceful and full of love and appreciasaid no, but now I can reflect and am tion. It is all in how you see the world. aware that I kept going deeper and Life is about attitude. What kind of attideeper into, and noticed my body get- tude do you have towards life, generalting tight and even he said he saw it in ly this attitude can also been reflecting my body language. The body always back at how you see yourself. When tells the truth. Thus I see that my rock- we learn to let go of the filters and false et of desire kept going deeper in the beliefs, worries, doubt etc then we can story and the universe was attracting tap into trusting, having connection to our inner joy and inner being. more of it.

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Appreciation is: Tuned in tapped in and turned on..

This is where mindfulness comes into play, by learning to be present you can move towards a more lighter and highIt is the Vibrational alignment with who er vibration.

I have become! It is being in synch of Keep slowly move through feelings the whole of who I am! and be present and compassionate.

It is seeing whatever I am looking at As you settle then you will feel calmer with the eyes of source of god! When and slowly you will shift your vibration. you are in that state of appreciation and you walk down the street, With all Once you get into the vibration of kinds of things others would criticize or hope, you can build from there and worry about...You would not have ac- rocket your fuel of desire. Fill your journal/notebooks with appreciation. cess of them . Why? This is because your vibration of ap- Make lists of things you love, positive preciation you are emanating from is aspects. Once you get into the vibrachoosing to focus on aligning to the tion of hope. Look for only your favorite vibration of love. Your vibration is pick- thing and use it as a way to feel good, ing out other things of different vibra- give it your attention. tional nature…

Even it is one thing give it your undividAppreciation is love, and love is a state ed attention. Use it as an excuse to be of Godliness. This is the same no mat- who you are. As you use those things that shine bright and make you feel ter how you look at it. good to be an excuse to get your atThis vibration of appreciation and love tention. You’ll turn to who you are and are the same and this is the essence the whole world will transform through your eyes. It is not your job to transof our source and our true nature. form others. It is your job to transform only you.

IT IS BEING WHO YOU REALLY ARE. Who you were when the moment you were born and who you will be the moment you die. Your quest in every moment

To inspire Gratitude, Compassion, Connection and Joy in the Heart of all beings including

OUR EARTH.

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white whale in Arctic

Beluga Whale

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Beluga means white in Russian. Beluga Whale or some call them white whale are not actually born white. They are gray at birth and as they get older the color get lighter and lighter, when a Beluga reaches age six they are completely white.

Beluga are very social mammals. A group of beluga can be loud! They have been nick-named “sea canaries”. They use sounds for many reasons, one is to help them to find their prey. They send out a sound which bounces off things in the water and allows them to hear how far away something is. This is called “echolocation”. It has also been reported by native people that beluga whales help each other give birth! They use many subtle forms of communication including a wide variety of facial expressions. Unlike some other whales, beluga have good vision. What they don’t have is a dorsal fin, earning them the name “delphinapterus” or dolphin-without-a-wing.

Beluga whale is small in size, their body is stout and has a small, blunt head with a small beak. They grow to be about 15 feet (4.6m) long an average, and they weighing up t about 3,300 pounds (1500kg).

Beluga whales live in frigid Arctic and sub-Arctic waters, as well as in the Cook Inlet and the St. Lawrence River. The Beluga whales life expectancy is 25 to 30 years. Beluga’s playful nature is one of their most enduring qualities about them.

Just as other animals Beluga whales main threat is environmental pollution and what we do in our lives has a direct correlation to the survival of the belugas.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/species/Beluga.shtml ~ http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/beluga_whale.html

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Art work by; Maryam Morrison 32 THEDENMAGAZINE.COM • May 2012

HEALING FROM PAST HURTS AND EVENTS

By Owen Fox

An integral part of embracing emotions is healing from old hurts and events from the past. we can’t change the past but we can see how we think and feel about the past right now in this moment.

It’s a holy moment so to speak. the human condition is always trying to fight an emotional discomfort, or try hide from it, this never works. It is only thru complete acceptance and embracing of it that it will be allowed to disappear.

We can only ever deal with this moment. we can only ever become aware in this Remain alert and present so you don’t moment. awareness of this moment and get sucked into and lost in repetitive what is happening in us in key. thoughts, judgments, resistance, remain as the silent knowing of anything in your We may notice we feel sad or angry, head especially, and the things around that resentment or blame or bitterness you in this present moment also. is there. we may notice in our minds, old tapes and images are going thru Be expansive, broad, alert, Aware. By our heads, thoughts of an event either “doing” this, you will allow each dropled from earlier today or 10 years ago are of pain and hurt from any past moment, running thru our mind. We can heal from be it from 5 minutes ago or 50 years, to these events by simply doing what is surface, be felt and evaporate from your being talked about here. Shining the being, leaving you little by little, ever light of our awareness on our feelings more and more fresh and free and light. and thoughts and visuals/movies in our head without resistance, but accep- It’s a beautiful journey, one you must tance... so the hurt surfaces and we be willing to make and choose to make allow it to release thru feeling it surface yourself, and you can only ever take the and feeling it there and knowing its there step and make it happen, in this tiny holy without fighting it or distracting ourselves instant, called now. from it.

To contact with Owen visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/0wenfox#grid/user/8F65C88D09374617 http://www.facebook.com/messages/?action=read&tid=id.306562766047646#!/profile.php?id=752376297&sk=info

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