Living the Heart's Desire: Art, Video, & Healing for Spiritual Awakening

I want to take this post to remind you of the free distance healing session that I am offering this Saturday, September 25, at 9am PDT. For those of you who read the earlier post and signed up, you get a day off from reading! Go watch the mandalas again. Better yet, download the free mandala videos from the Freebie link.

For those of you who didn’t see the recent post about the healing, let me give you the info in a nutshell.

• On September 25, at 9am PDT I will be giving a free group remote Reconnectve Healing Session to anyone who would like to participate.
• It is best if you can be lying down quietly without sensory stimuli (no music, incense, etc.) for an hour during the time I am activating the energy, but if that is not possible, you can still benefit from the session.
• I will activate the energies and ask that they be sent to the people who have signed up for the session, so be sure to use the sign up form.
• Please read the previous post, Free Group Remote Healing Session – Sign Up Now for more details.
• To learn more information about what you can expect from a session please see my post Reconnective Healing-Strings, Strands, Light and Information and visit my page on Reconnective Healing.

I would greatly appreciate your feedback following the session. Please note any experiences you have during the session and any changes you notice after it. Please feel free to email me with your observations.

I am honored to do this work for you. If you feel so inspired you may make a donation through the link below.

If you would like to schedule a private distance healing session with me, please email me.

Please note that I make no promises, guarantees, representations and or warranties regarding medical diagnosis and or medical treatment, and are neither diagnosing nor treating specific health challenges. You are solely responsible for your own medical care.

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

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The next time you’re wandering around your garden, checking out your window boxes or taking your dog for a walk in the park, look around you – mandalas are everywhere. You just have to look around you to see the basic shape of a central point surrounded by an organized pattern radiating outwards. Sometimes just turning a flower or a pinecone around will reveal its mandala nature. You can draw inspiration from these natural designs, their shapes and their colours, in creating your own mandalas.

Mandala designs are easy to see in flowers. Petals surrounding a central core form the most natural designs. Imagine a sunflower, with its face full of sunflower seeds, surrounded by large, bright yellow petals. It’s a mandala guaranteed to make you smile. And something equally as cheerful – a daisy. Or perhaps a rose or a begonia for a mandala with overlapping petals.

How about vegetables as geometric designs? Cut a tomato in half crosswise, and you’ll find a centre piece of the stem, with segments around it, each containing the seeds and juice. A cross-section of a bell pepper shows the veins and seeds, and the underside of a mushroom reveals the stem and the many lines of gills. Artichokes form one of my favorite designs. All of these are mandalas in nature.

And don’t forget about fruit as creative inspiration. You can see obvious mandalas when you cut citrus fruit in half. The segments of fruit surround a central stem and the seeds form additional decoration. Looking at a strawberry from the top down reveals a radiating pattern of seeds on a luscious bright red background.

Trees also contribute to the vast array of mandalas in nature. A cross-section of the trunk reveals the tree rings. But pinecones also have a beautiful symmetry when held upright.

It’s not difficult to find mandalas in the flora world, but what about animals? Are some constructed in a mandala structure?

Starfish spring to mind. The 5 pointed arms around the body of the starfish form a simple pattern. And octopi and jellyfish can also seem to form similar patterns when viewed from above as they swim along. And sea anemones, and so on.

Mandalas are everywhere in nature, which may explain why they have been used as powerful and spiritual designs by humankind throughout thousands of years.

Searching for, and studying, mandalas in nature in your everyday life will have several amazing benefits:

* you’ll come to recognise the universality of the mandala
* you may be influenced in your colour choices in colouring mandalas by the ones you find in nature
* you may be inspired to create mandalas of your own based on those you see around you
* it’s exciting to find a new way to connect with nature
* you’ll appreciate even the smallest piece of the natural world when you’re looking for mandalas there.

By recognising and connecting to the mandalas in the natural world around you, you may begin to understand how many cultures consider the designs to represent universal truths.

Chris Lindsay is giving free rein to her creativity by designing mandalas for herself and others to color in. She uses geometric patterns from temari, yantra and kaleidoscope designs as the starting points for her creations. Whether you want to reduce stress, to quieten your mind, meditate or just to have fun, coloring is a great activity for all ages and all abilities.

Visit http://www.mandalas-to-color.com and set your artistic creativity free.

Upload your photos of the mandalas you have found in nature at http://www.mandalas-to-color.com/your-nature-mandalas.html

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Today I want to introduce you to The Unified Tribe. When I first decided I needed a blog, I was amazed to find there was a world of bloggers on the web making substantial amounts of money from their blogs, and more surprisingly many of the leaders in the field were quite young (at least to this 50 something baby boomer). There was a theme to the style of these blogs. Give your readers valuable free content, establish a relationship with them. Be transparent, let them see you as a person without any hype. This is a very heart centered way of doing business and I was delighted to find it.

My first exposure to it was through Third Tribe Marketing and while they are not the subject of this post, I would encourage you to explore what they have to offer. Recently I discovered The Unified Tribe, started by Katie Freiling. She has hit on a wonderful idea of creating a place where bloggers could syndicate their work through social media and assist each other in marketing, branding themselves around the things they are most passionate about. In a nutshell, when you join this membership site, you post your blog posts to the group and ask them to promote them through Digg, Facebook, Twitter, and Stumbleupon. You in turn share their posts (the ones you like and feel in alignment with) through these social media sites. There are also weekly webinars, all recorded and available for later viewing as well as a host of other videos on using social media.

What a brilliant idea! In the few weeks I have been a member I have found my site statistics up 30% or more, and made contact with a number of other bloggers who I feel a personal and professional connection with. Most of the members I have interacted with are high energy, successful people with a positive vision and genuine desire to contribute to life through their work. Many also seem to be on a spiritual path and certainly aligned with my desire to serve.

What I do find lacking are other artists. There are a few, but I know many other artists on Facebook who have blogs and whose businesses I would love to promote, and I invite any and all of you to check out The Unified Tribe and see if it is something you think would be of benefit to your business.

While there are some life coaches in the tribe, I know there are many more of you out there whose work I would love to promote; the same with healers and alternative health care providers. And what about you writers and book authors who are trying to use social media to promote your work?  Really anyone with an online business and blog, who is using social media to promote their work could benefit greatly from joining this Tribe. And the more of us there are in the tribe, the more we get support and can support others. Katie has set up a very simple system of listing your posts and posting other people’s work to the 4 social media sites (Digg, Facebook, Twitter, and Stumbleupon) she has chosen to use.

There is also a forum where you can actively participate with other members and post information, ideas and comments. I’m generally not a “forum person”, but I have been using this one and benefiting from the connections there.

I would encourage any of you bloggers who want to increase traffic to your site, grow your presence in social media sites, and do it all with integrity and a heart centered approach, to see for yourself if this is a marketing tool that is right for you. I look forward to seeing more artists, spiritually based life coaches, healers and others with a deep commitment to service and spiritual awakening joining the The Unified Tribe.

Please take a few minutes to view Katie’s introduction. (Yes, she’s young and VERY enthusiastic, but don’t hold that against her. She may be over the top in “perkiness” but she’s got brains. I’ve been researching social media marketing for some months now and have found no other system that has so much to offer.) I hope to see your posts in the unified feed soon. I have found it quite natural to promote other artists through my Facebook page and now have found a new way of promoting and being promoted. Please come join me!

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