Loving Without Control
~Adapted from The Path to Love, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 1997).

The key stances of letting go of control are all forms of allowing: Acceptance, tolerance, non-resistance. When control is ready to loosen its grip, a definite relaxation takes place. The façade of the demanding, critical partner who is so quick to blame begins to melt. You start to feel love once more, not as an idea but as a sensation in your heart. And at last you find it possible to allow.

When this stage is reached with the beloved, the healing process begins to branch out into other aspects of your life. The following changes will often be in evidence:

* You stop measuring people by whether they live up to your expectations. You begin to resist the urge to correct their mistakes and give unwanted advice.
* You lessen your habit of taking care of others without really caring for them.
* You become tired of trying to keep track of every detail of your life and bored with people who have always given in to you.
* You begin to listen to objections and disagreements instead of using them to trigger your own opinion.
* Unexpected emotions come to the surface. This usually arouses self-criticism because you can’t control your feelings anymore as you once did. At another level, however, this eruption of emotions comes as a great relief.
* Your impatience begins to lessen.
* You take stress seriously, no longer believing that you thrive on it.
* You begin to listen to your body, which has all along been giving you signals of tightness, fatigue, etc.
* Your mind gives up calculating every move in advance.
* You stop holding grudges and remembering slights. Resentment begins to be replaced by tolerance.
* You quit setting external goals for yourself and believing that achieving these goals faster, better, and more tirelessly makes you a good person.

How can you love without need? Know the difference between ego and spirit.

Oakhurst Dairy, a leading non-hormone milk provider in Portland Maine, announced that they have turned their facility into a solar powered facility! AND they have turned their delivery trucks into bio-diesel trucks!

This is so fantastic, I hope all corporations begin to convert to alternative fuel sources and stop emitting pollution. Oakhurst noted in their report that they will save 5,000 gallons of oil per year(used to heat their facility), in addition to the pollution that burning this oil would create. This is the largest solar installation in New England to date.
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Whats in my fridge? You bet… (big smile)

Wendy

Take a look at the following 5 element Chinese Medicine Wheel model for your career and see which of these imbalances may be holding you back in your career (this particular model is for doctors and holistic practitioners but you can apply it to any career):

Earth imbalance: I am not good enough, therefore I must exhaust myself in the endless effort to give patients what they need. I think I want to see more patients but, although I hate to admit it, I am pretty fried seeing the few patients I have. I attract a lot of needy, high maintenance patients.

Metal imbalance: I am not worthy of success and abundance, therefore I never attract the kind of money that I’d like and my practice always feels unstable. Even though I undercharge for my services, it is hard for me to fill my books. My patients seem to cancel a lot and don’t value my policies. Sometimes I feel invisible, like no one even knows or cares that I am here. I attract patients who either can’t afford me or have a hard time seeing the value in what I offer.

Water imbalance: I either put money first or pretend that it doesn’t matter at all. Either way, I am run by fear. My treatments don’t feel as powerful as I’d like them to and my patients don’t refer others to me as much as I’d like. I have been in a low grade state of fight or flight and can’t stop thinking about how to make this work financially, which I know is blocking me from my true potential. I attract patients who don’t offer enough of themselves in the treatment process. While I want to treat them at a deeper level, they just don’t seem to understand or be interested in this.

Wood imbalance: It is me against the world. There is a lot of competition in my area, so I have to try really hard to be successful. Usually I feel angry that it’s not happening as quickly as I’d like. Even though I put so much effort into it, my practice often feels stagnant, like it’s not moving forward. The harder I try, the more hopeless I feel. I attract really challenging patients who like to argue with me much of the time.

Fire imbalance: I am either really into my practice and totally in love with it or I have the urge to flee it as quickly as possible. My commitment wavers, which keeps the whole thing feeling superficial. Sometimes I wonder if the main reason I have done OK in my practice is because I am so friendly and I know how to connect with people. I attract patients who want to be my friend; they talk a lot and make me lose track of my schedule. Although they seem to love me, my patients can be flighty. They tend to disappear without notice. The whole thing can feel chaotic.

Be honest with yourself. If you are not at the place you’d like to be in your career, it is almost certain that one of these imbalances is the weak link for you. Can you see how this is not only holding you back in your career, but is preventing you from offering your very best to your employers, customers, patients, etc?

Courtesy of buildyourdreampractice.net/

If they erect structures that do not please them, then without an instant of remorse, they knock them aside, and make new ones… ~ Seth

Not many of us fall for being forced into Christmas shopping frenzies because its “while supplies last”, it “won’t last long”, and its “less than 3 weeks til Christmas”.

Over the last few years, my perception has been that people are just plain tired of being marketed to in this panic stricken form. We can shop on-line, we can shop when we want to, not when they unlock their seemingly exclusive doors and “limited time offers”.

A friend of mine was recently commenting on the ugliness of this term “black friday”, when some brave the stores, having fun in the frantic energy, and others stay at home to avoid the energy.

Green Saturday - Here’s an Idea!

Today is the day you make homemade gifts full of thought, or purchase an inexpensive homemade gift from an artist. Its quite a full circle concept. You can bet there is no lead in a homemade product. Check out the new homemade bath soaks and loofas, our new alternative to deodorant “Fields of Lavender Body Powder“, or the thoughtful positive decks, oracle cards, angel cards, and affirmation cards.

Take your time, think it out, and when you get hungry, take 10 steps to the kitchen and grab a bite, or peruse our teas and put some of that on.

I like the concept of Green Saturday, back to nature.

Its an interesting concept to spend your dollars within your community and with those who support mother nature, as I predicted in my original rantings in 2001 on beginning this site, sprawl is slowing as we turn back to nature and look around at the impact we have on our communities. We are realizing it in many ways (oil crisis, imported toy hazards, imported food hazards, water…) how important it is to support each other and use local resources to thrive.

Happy Green Saturday! Make something from your kitchen today!

YOU PASSED GO, COLLECT $200 … I could always count on that every time I made a trip around the Monopoly Board! Of course the money always comes! That is THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IN ACTION

Have you heard about the Law of Attraction? The Secret? The belief that we create our own destiny and the more positive out outlook on life, the more positive our life actually becomes? Its a great belief system that has caught on like wildfire in America.

I was standing in the shower thinking… (jane’s addiciton anyone?)… and I recalled playing it for hours growing up. I remember when somebody else owned Boardwalk and Parkplace, I would dread my turn around the last corner. Bunched up in fear, I roll the dice and WHAMMMO! I roll a 7 which puts me on Park Place and I owe $350 to the other player. Well geeze, isn’t that placing an order?

On the other hand, I remember the sweet anticipation of getting to that GO spot, getting past GO and Collecting $200! That always happened too! It would be interesting to play that game again with newly awakened perspective.

I just completed the fire the grid world meditation. It was empowering to know that even though I was all alone in my backyard, I was connected to energy throughout the earth, as one. And we were healing our mother. We were raising energy like she has wanted us to for so many layers of years.

I realized as I went within, that as we clean out mother, we also clean out ourselves. As we let go of our internal problems and stop the mind chatter, we clean both our clutter and earth’s clutter.

I asked for all of the scarred pieces of earth, the torn parts of her flesh be healed; to begin regrowing. I pictured all chemicals, toxins and man’s poisons lifting out of the ground and floating away as flowers and finally disappearing.

Then my mind went to us. The people. We are a natural part of existence too. I asked for all pain, mental anguish and torn hearts to be healed and released. I asked for a cheeriness to return to us.

I would love to hear comments on your experiences.
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USED FOR HYPOGLYCEMIA, DIABETES, WORRY
Do you find your inner voice constantly worrying about enough money, enough time, love, food, space? Do you feel that if you give $1 to the Salvation Army, or if you offer food to others, that it will hurt you? That you do not have anything to share?

Do you find that your situation in life is so scarce, that you unable to be giving in nature? These feelings effect your body, your soul, and your life, as you withdraw deeper inside yourself, unable to make offerings to society or others.

How do you break the pattern? Recent books like The Secret, The Law of Attraction, and other books on Manifestation will tell you when you are in this constant negative worrying pattern, you are vibrating at a low frequency. You are attracting lack if you are focused upon it. If all you think about is what you don’t have, then you will continue to have nothing. You have to change your thinking for things to change. These books tell us that if we believe we already have those things we feel short of, that we will begin to change the situation and attract abundance.

How do we do this? How do we feel full of money, love, friends and joy if we don’t yet have these things?

Try the Flower Essence Star Thistle. The wisdom of Star Thistle will help your soul to feel as though it is not lacking in anything. It will allow you to connect to your own sense of peaceful abundance, and will allow you to help others, helping yourself.

In this respect, Star Thistle is an effective energetic remedy for Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. Your body is craving sugar, and if there is not a sufficient level of sugar in the blood, the body goes into a panic. Suddenly the body feels sluggish, angry, emotional, unstable. Some may experience shakiness, irritability, outrage, physical starvation, hunger pains, tingling in the fingers and toes. Energetically, the body is going into a panic. Energetically, the body is “coming from lack”, panicking that a next meal will not come.

Calm your mind-body-spirit with 1 drop of the Star Thistle Flower Essence.
I have done this personally and it has combatted my hypoglycemia, I simply don’t get it anymore. I can go long periods of time without eating. The Star Thistle taught my body that it has all that it needs within, and it can go a few hours without a dose of sugar to confirm its’ existence.

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The Creator gathered all of Creation and said, I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the realization that they create their own reality.

The eagle said, Give it to me, I will take it to the moon. The Creator said, No. One day they will go there and find it.

The salmon said, I will bury it on the bottom of the ocean. No. They will go there too.

The buffalo said, I will bury it on the Great Plains. The Creator said, They will cut into the skin of the Earth and find it even there.

Grandmother Mole, who lives in the breast of Mother Earth, and who has no physical eyes but sees with spiritual eyes, said, Put it inside of them.

And the Creator said, It is done.

~ A Sioux Story

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Are you an “Underearner”? Are you one of the hardest working people you know, yet you have no money?
WAKE UP & LET THAT SUN SHINE IN! The below article is for you!

“Underearners work harder than any group of people out there. And a lot of them are women.”

Dr. Northrup recently posted an article in her newsletter pointing out the relationship between our money and our health. Our health is most definitely related to our emotions and how we feel about ourselves, and our bodies respond to that. Unlock your negative beliefs about money, read on and check out her March newsletter.