Fear: the enemy of self-love

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Feb 072012
 
Fear: the enemy of self-love

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is the greatest enemy of self-love? FEAR! Fear constricts your mind and energy field. Seriously!As a shaman, I can tell when a person is experiencing fear because the energy field contracts to about 3 inches from the physical body. But not only that; it becomes more solid and looks like a tomb. Not a pretty image, but one that gets the message across. Fear can kill you! Actually, in the Spiritual Warrior shamanic tradition it is said that it IS fear that often kills you, not a dangerous situation. Fear kills you because it closes off your vast repertoire of alternatives, creativity, courage and spiritual protection. Fear often leads to low self-esteem, stress and stress-related diseases and accidents. Literally speaking, fear makes you stupid! I mean it. It closes off your cellular receptors to the external environment and reduces your brain activity, so that all your energy is booked to your fight or flight response. If the threat is not real, what a waste of energy! If it is, being stupid is not the best way to face it. [Read more.]

Love, Joy and Imagination Reduce Stress in Problem Solving

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Nov 082011
 
Love, Joy and Imagination Reduce Stress in Problem Solving

Reading Time: 6 minutes Learn how love, joy and imagination reduce the stress in problem solving. When you get scared, your logical mind wants to take over in order to make sense of chaos. You stress yourself in an attempt to control life. There is an easier path. Love, joy and imagination allow you to respond to difficult challenges with the tools to thrive and the alchemy to transmute limitations into mastery. So life has dealt you an unexpected bad hand of cards. You are diagnosed with a serious disease. Your elder parent shows signs of dementia. Your daughter is pregnant out of wedlock. Your son drops out of high school. This is not what you had planned. Your mind immediately labels these unexpected events as bad. Now you are scared. Bad things are scary. The unknown is scary. When we are scared, our logical mind wants to take over in order to make sense of chaos. We have been trained to use logic in order to solve problems. Having diagnosed the event as a problem, you summon your logical mind to solve this [Read more.]

Love’s true meaning

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Aug 152011
 

Reading Time: < 1 minute Monday Meditation: Love gives meaning to life because love is the meaning of life.   The Daily Tips from the Dream Alchemist are (almost) daily inspirational messages to live a richer, more meaningful, magical life and to create the life of your dreams today. Send to Kindle

Join the 2012 Peace Shift

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May 112011
 
Join the 2012 Peace Shift

Reading Time: 5 minutes Peacekeeper Pledge Are you grateful for the individual uniqueness, intelligence and creativity you possess? I am, too. As a poet and shaman I use these tools to heal myself and others, transform my life, express my unique essence creatively and celebrate the beauty of this world. But there is a Shadow side to these gifts. We can use them to destroy that which we have been created to protect: our beautiful earth and all its creatures, including the human species. Because we have fed the Shadow side of our human powers, we have done more damage to this planet in the past two centuries than in all the previous millennia, and we are at the brink of extinction. The force that brings forth this Shadow is fear. Responding to fear, we seek to defend and control; getting hook-up in emotional hunger ~which leads to consumerism and addictions, and in greed and control ~which lead to war.   However, this extinction is not the only possibility we have. As creators, we are endowed with love, compassion, creativity and higher faculties that [Read more.]

Awaken your Venus Gifts!

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Jan 262009
 

Reading Time: 4 minutes Awaken your Venus Gifts! By Maria Mar Whether you already have your soul mate or are looking for him (or her), you want to invoke the beauty, grace, magnetism and sweet loving energy of Venus. Known by many names, among them Ochún, Kuan Yin, Lakshmi or Aphrodite, the Divine Female Essence of Love is the fountain of joy and delight. Love is the greatest power in the universe. It is, in effect, the source of the beauty and perfection of the universe. What is love? For me, it is the force that animates creation. For love the perfection of the rose unfolds its spiral. For love the  ocean roars, dances and heals, birthing abundant life. In love, the seagull soars through the sky and the sparrows sing all day. The Full Moon shines to illuminate our love or our longing for love. The New Moon goes within to guide us to the source of love. Because of love and for love you and I exist. Without love, life would be meaningless. When there is love, all can be achieved, transcended, [Read more.]