A New Earth  SHiNE Circle
Week 2

It seems that these late night hours are a waking window, post-sessions on Monday nights. Something unique happens to me each week... suddenly this day holds a certain resonance. Perhaps knowing that I will be serving others (by holding a space for awakening) is a catalyst for a dormant energy within me. Today, I have needed not food or sleep. Each meal that I ate was a conscious act - versus a response to hunger. I have felt full all day... and now feel awake though coming out of a very full day. Something is alive in me through the act of community and service.

Tonight's teachings were well-delivered by Tolle. I found the webinar to be extremely insightful and rich with insight. So much that was said reminded me how important it is to be develop workbook materials that offer tangible tools to embodiment of these lofty concepts. Ideas that I have had to generate materials are now alive in me... SHiNE Body, Sensation Matters, and a Conscious Communication Handbook (just to name a few)... all as ripe and ready tools to refine and share.

Our post-class session was remarkable. Such connection results from willingness to share ourselves from this heightened state of presence. I was moved by each and every person in the circle tonight in some very specific way. I am grateful to all who attended... and anxious to see those absent faces once again. And... lucky me... I get to do this again tomorrow evening with yet another group of new faces. What a blessing. Off to ride this wakefulness to sleepytime...

Breath and Smiles to you.

A New Earth  SHiNE Circle
Day 1

The subtitle of this wonderful work is... Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. After nearly three solid hours spent focusing on this work tonight, it seems my being seems to have taken these words quite literally. It is 1:30am, and I am awake with eyes (and mind) wide open.

This work is not new to me, as I read the book when it was first released a couple of years ago. However, integrating the material comes in doses over time. I am pleased to be revisiting concepts in order to make them so much more - ways of being in my life. What is most powerful to me in the relevance of this subtitle (aside from my unusual alertness at such an odd hour), is the way in which I feel that much more awake to my life's purpose. Holding space for tonight's SHiNE Circle very much meets me on my path of service. I am absolutely blissful uniting others with the brilliance alive within. And to do this in the company of 10 beautiful souls... on this night... with over 500,000 people all over the world in attendance plugged into the same frequency!... Ah well... it is nothing short of a miracle in my heart, and a perfect outpicturing of the job of my dreams, in my very home. I am exactly where I am meant to be. And I am grateful.

This is an exciting time to be alive. Such a global awakening we have never seen before... and I have felt this time approaching for as long as I can remember. The world is finally ripe (a critical mass of us, at least) to live in the way that God intended us. Conscious, self-aware, respons-ible to body and earth. And we must unite, collaborate, and help one another to meet our grandest vision of who we can yet become as a species. We are not meant to do it alone. Individually, we must awaken. Yet it is together that we learn to walk in the world with eyes open. I am so blessed to be a part of this Age of Enlightenment.

May you find Peace in the moment as a gift to your human friends worldwide. Consciousness is an inside job with a outside to match.

Blessings to Love to you.

March 2008

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
It is a rare and most precious gift. Friendship. To give it is an honor - friendship teaches us how to be present and unconditional with another like us. To receive it is an art - to allow another to peer into our hearts requires a surrendering to self-love.

Whether it's talking with clients or holding space for community in a class, I see the power of connection at work. There is no greater expression of divinity than opening our heart to another. When we offer ourselves in communion with others, it is our purity that determines the degree of reciprocity. Empathy (I see You) coupled with Honesty (You see Me) creates a brilliant synthesis that transcends the drama of any given moment.

Many of us (myself included) are sometimes afraid of true connection. Our vulnerability is our best kept secret, and so we reach out in our communications with a facade of togetherness. Or better yet, a misrepresentation of where we are in the moment. We are drained by interactions because holding ourselves hostage is exhausting. Such instances most often happen on subtle levels. Consider an interaction with a grocery store clerk where a smile is forced and - How are you?...Fine, thanks - is as routine as our form of payment. You might say, but I don't even know that person! Ah, but you know what it is to be human. You know that the desire for connection is universal. And if you take a single instance (and by the way, time stands still when eyes lock) to reach forth with authenticity, you will receive the salve of oneness - a transparency that unites and heals us from the inside out.

Consider your friendships a training ground for true connection. Authenticity, vulnerability, and generosity are potent powers that can be cultivated in a loving friendship. I am fortunate enough to be surrounded by loving and conscious friends, committed to sharing in the journey towards expressing the Highest Love.

Become your own best friend this month by welcoming the many aspects of you into your awareness. If you should feel moved to, join us on Monday evenings as we share in the journey of A New Earth. This is a rare opportunity to self-reflect through a 10-week course designed to awake us in order to know ourselves better. I am committed to holding a space where you can be you, raw and true. Bring your joys and your fears, thePortal is vast, expansive, and most potent when authenticity is present.

No matter who you are and what your challenges, I see you whole. I see your divinity, and I see your purpose. And, I consider you a friend.

My Door Is Always Open,
Candice

March 2008 - Book of The Month
Happier Than God
by Neale Donald Walsh

I am so excited about this book for two reasons:
1) It is written by one of my favorite authors and teachers
2) It speaks directly to an issue near and dear to my heart... the misrepresentation of the Law of Attraction and how to take metaphysical teachings to a Higher Plane.

I myself have just started reading it, yet feel confident in the basic premise... one that echoes many of my earlier blog postings. It is time for us to mature in our approach to manifestation, metaphysics, and what it is to be a creative being. Reaching beyond the ego, into a Higher Realm of expressing our power in this world. I look forward to curling up in bed tonight with this book... and I hope you will check it out as well.

And by the way, I am quite certain it echoes with a similar resonance as that within my own heart. The opening page is a quote:

God says for me to tell you this:

Nothing needs fixing;
everything desires A Celebration.
You were made to bend
so that you could discover
all of the many Miracles
at your feet.
You were made to stretch
so that you could find
Your Own Beautiful Face of Heaven

just above

all that you think you must shoulder.

When I appeal to God
to speak to me,
I am feeling just as small
and alone
as you are.
But this is when
for no good reason at all,

I begin to Shine.

(Begin to Shine - 2007 m. Claire)

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