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Table of Contents Feature SYNOLVE CRAFT
THE ANATOMY OF GRATITUDE 62
Articles REV. ALAN ROWBOTHAM
HOW TO MAKE THANKSGIVING SPECIAL 33 SPIRITUAL SOLUTIONS
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DENNIS MERRITT JONES
BE MINDFUL OF YOUR NON-PROBLEMS 49 THE ART OF BEING SUSAN MAREK
FOCUS ON BREATH 35 MEDITATION TERRI LEE-JOHNSON
NURTURING SPIRITUALITY IN CHILDREN 37 THE SPIRITUAL BOOKSHELF
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JANICE GIRGENTI
FENG SHUI FOR THE BEDROOM 25 FENG SHUI PETER C. ROGERS, D.D., PH.D.
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE 20 THE ULTIMATE TRUTH MILTON CRAFT
ARE YOU EXPANDABLE? 79 CREATIVE PROCESS KEN AND RENEE KIZER
THE POWER OF LOVE 13 SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS MATTHEW WILLIAMSON
MOSAIC 76 VOICES FROM SPIRIT
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JAN BOWERS
GIFTS OF HUMILITY FOR WILD SPIRITS 22 SPIRIT THRU NATURE
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TONYA PARKER
THE SACRED MUNDANE 38 CONSCIOUS LIVING - FOOD JOHN MADSEN
RHONDA JONES
THE CREATIVE IMPULSE AND MEANING 78 THE CREATIVE PROCESS
SOMETHING TO PONDER 56 MAGNIFICENT YOU!
KALYN B RAPHAEL
BEN CHILD
WHERE YOUR DREAMS BECOME REAL 45 THE ORACLE
GRATITUDE TO GRATITUDE 54 CONSCIOUS LIVING - FOOD
SHAUNA ARTHURS
JEN ALY
A PROCESS FOR COMMUNICATING COMPASSIONATELY IN RELATIONSHIP 19 SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS CHAKRACIZE YOUR SPIRIT 72 CONSCIOUS PARENTING
LIARA COVERT, PH.D.
UNLEASH THE GRATITUDE INSIDE 11 JOURNEY INTO SELF
LORI SAITZ
VALERIE LOVE
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MY CUP RUNNETH OVER 81 SPIRITUAL LAWS OF FINANCE DAVID BESLOW
THE 2 MOST POWERFUL WORDS OF ALL TIME 16 JOURNEY INTO SELF LISA GUTOWSKI
AMBIENCE 59 SCIENTIFIC ENLIGHTENMENT
ADEOLA FEARON
THE CIRCLE 29 POETRY
ROBIN MARVEL
“PROBLEM-SOLVING” 31 THE GRATITUDE JOURNEY
CULTIVATING A HEALTHY BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT 26 HEALTH LIVING
LAURIE MARTIN
A REVOLUTIONARY WAY OF LIVING AND DOING BUSINESS! 42 SMILES ACROSS YOUR HEART JENNIFER HOPPER
LAWS OF LIFE FOR KIDS: THE WISE FROG (THE LAW OF SUPPLY) 18 KIDZ EVAN CRAFT
GRATEFUL TEENS 58 TWEENS & TEENS
DOREEN P. SWEETING, MD
BE HERE, NOW PART III 51 HOLISTIC HEALTH
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my thoughts editor’s note Gratitude ultimately brings us to veneration and love of the lifebestowing spirit of man. It gives birth to love and love makes the heart open for the spirit-powers pervading life. If after every meditation, we arouse in ourselves the feeling of gratefulness and reverence - a feeling that we call "mood prayer" and beware in what grace we are taking part, we shall realize that we are on the right path for the spiritual worlds to approach us. ~Rudolf Steiner One morning as I was preparing to interview Stacey Robyn for the November feature on Gratitude for The Infinite Field Magazine, I heard the voice of God say to me in a whisper: "Ask what you will and it shall be done for you." Realizing that I was still half asleep, I tried to rouse A message from Synolve myself from my deep meditative dream state. Then quickly before the (click to listen) moment could pass, I began to simply pray for myself and for my family and our continued health, happiness, and prosperity. It was an amazing experience. It sends chills down my spine to just to reflect upon that moment. I have experienced moments like this in my life many many times before. For example, I experienced this very thing the day that I met my husband and years later when we were trying to conceive our two children. I also experienced this when I began my journey into the infinite field and began pulling together contributors for this magazine. Moments when the voice of God says, "Cast your bread upon the waters, and in many days it will return to you" have been a normal pattern of creation and joy in my life. It is in these moments that I am simply instructed to "Ask and Receive." In the moments, prior to hearing this whisper within me, I remember being immensely grateful for all that Spirit has given me. I was in love with my toes, my fingers, my smile, my life, my husband, our children, our home, and our life together. Bubbling over with gratitude, my cup began to run over...spilling into my intentions and dreams thus calling forth the very essence of creation to speak to me. Maybe you've had these moments in your own life when you felt the impulse to call someone or go to a particular place or even felt a voice calling to you from deep within, but you shied away from the voice or wrote it off as just the wind. Perhaps, you are being called to consider a different path or to expand your vision, but fear has kept you stuck in the same place you were when you began. In this moment, I AM asking you to try. To try a new journey....a new path. To give yourself the gift of gratitude. To give yourself the gift of self-love. To be immensely grateful for the power of Spirit and to trust the voice within.... Listen....God is most certainly calling you. Can you hear it? Infinitely Yours,
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TAKING TIME FOR ME (My 10 Minutes Each Day)
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UNLEASH THE GRATITUDE INSIDE
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by Liara Covert, Ph.D.
ne way to understand gratitude is to
Often there is something in one's personal
awaken a feeling of profound love and
history which prompts many people to stop
appreciation. This exists in everyone, but
talking openly about their feelings, to stop
some people temporarily forget. You may
feeling grateful, or or to stop expressing
feel grateful for family or other people you
gratitude. From some moment in your
cherish, even situations that you feel
perceived past, a person chose to give fear
fortunate about or describe as "a god-send."
control of their life. Some people learn this
Yet, how often do you tell people aloud,
through examples from relatives, friends, or
express this in writing or show this in
community members.
gestures? How does gratitude become
As a person matures into adulthood, they
something you connect with right now or
tend to grow quiet, to listen more
detach from for reasons you are just
and downplay true thoughts and feelings.
beginning to notice and explore?
This may be perceived as moving toward
At this very moment, you are allowing the
mediocrity or dishonesty about self. Many
mind to awaken based on your memory and
societies do not promote openness and
perception. How openly do you express love
transparency. It can be culturally acceptable
and reinforce a priceless sense of belonging?
to hide. You are programmed to do what is
What does it mean to you when you hear
expected. People are not taught how to react
everything you need has already been given?
to compliments.
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Consider how society has evolved
crave appreciation they have been
Envision what your life is like as
to incorporate special occasions into conditioned to receive only a few
you feel appreciated by everyone,
calendars like Father's Day,
particular times per year.
even strangers. Envision this in the
Mother's Day, Grandparent's Day,
However, if this describes you, you
present moment. This is not a what
Valentine's Day, Veteran's Day,
can shift from fear to gratitude with
if or sometime in the future. There
National Independence Days,
a little work and time.
is no need to create an internal
Thanksgiving and others. Things that feel right for you may not feel right for everyone at the same moment. Take for example, that different countries celebrate these occasions on different dates. Some cultures do not celebrate thanksgiving, but they integrate other rituals of gratitude into their lives.
Feelings reveal expectations. They reveal your desires, needs, and
not getting. It no longer matters if anyone remembers or forgets what
intentions. Gratitude relates to
have become commercialized
unseen expansion. Gratitude engulfs all that you are and all you wish to become. Human beings are forever changed by love and
holidays or special occasions. Look beyond the negative feelings you might feel when people seem to forget about you. What does this
gratitude, though the changes are
really say about how you see
very specific to your own expectations and conditioned limits.
Ever wonder why particular dates
You are invited to ask why you
are chosen to express positive
choose to repress feelings of love.
feelings?
gauge to measure attention you are
yourself and what you imagine is lacking? Personal revelations are reasons to be grateful. They draw your own attention to the reasons
Imagine that you have the power
One view is special occasions
why you may not be expressing as
and free will to experience or share
symbolize gratitude and remind
much gratitude to others as you
gratitude any moment or every
people how they structure or
could. Step out of a mental place of
moment. It is not necessary to limit
institutionalize reasons to feel
wanting. Shift your perspective to
your love. You can choose to
and express gratitude. People tend
feeling that you have all the love
forget what society teaches you and
to feel badly if they forget special
you need already. Be grateful for
learn to listen to what feels right
occasions. Why might that
that opportunity and teach other
inside. As you learn to attune to
people they too can live a more
be? Sometimes they feel upset when your energy, you realize you have they forget who they are, why they access to bountiful energy and love exist and what they can share.
that you have the option to feel and
When people forget self-love, they
access anytime.
joyful life. You live by example. Everyone is a mirror of yourself.
Books: Self Disclosure: Changes from Within (Strategic Book Publishing, March 2009) Excerpt available on Amazon.com Ebooks: Harness the Energy of Your Dreams (expected completion before end of August 2009)TOC can be provided (includes astral, lucid dreaming, dream walking, exercises)http:// blog.dreambuilders.com.au/bio/ Ph.D. in areas of psychoanalysis and international relations.
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