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Wishing You Joy, Love and Kindness ~ Now and Into the New Year!

Happy Holidays!

(Did you notice that they caught him with his eyes closed?!)

This is not just pure silliness! It evokes some great points for reflection, too:

• Sometimes true friends won’t be typical or as expected.
• What we fear is often worse in our imagination than in reality.
• Avoiding the unknown blocks growth, learning & opportunities.

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Lower Level ~ All Set Up

Awe is the tone. You’re pretty lucky when you get to explore Great Things.

When The Masses Mobilize

Our ski club hosts a fund raising auction annually and as one small cog in the machine, there is the unique view from the inside that makes me take breath in pause.

It was conceived by dedicated volunteers, coordinated by dedicated volunteers & orchestrated by dedicated volunteers.

Grama's Goodie Basket

The mass cooperation & shared vision are inspiring! With no special training, but through learning from year to year, the plans have been honed, details all accounted for, crews mobilized in advance and careful preparations minded.

• * Meetings: Committees, sub-committees, systems
  
• * Delegation: Work crews, item collection, floor crew
  
• * Coordination: Groups, locations, training, processing
  

<– To the left is my favorite donation item ever. My mother-in-law baked & baked & baked (I was a small contributor of gingerbread cookies, biscotti & shortbread).

Many Thanks to the Purchaser!

It was the only item of it’s kind with 420 cookies & 7 loaves! & at last glance was commanding over $150!  Soul Sight Services donated a Good Vibrations CD Set, but this basket donation was *Way Better! Thanks Mom! 🙂

The evolution of this event began as a pub event and maybe raised $20,000… upgraded to an art gallery for a few years that upped the ante… and expanded to it’s current version including 550 attendees & over $110,000 in auction item donations.

I’ve been witness to this evolution and am impressed by every aspect of it. It is truly Great.

Not being privy to the finer points, but being close enough to know the level of attention to detail that it has to take to create such an amazing Gala only increases my Awe. www.skinasa.org

What have You been a part of that was Truly Great?

As preparations are being made for the SoulSightServices.com website merger with the Wallinder.ca site, a poll was held to see which banner was the favorite and those who expressed their opinion were entered into a draw.

And the Winner Is…

Congratulations!!

The draw winner for the “Good Vibrations” CD Set is: Belinda Russo

The winning banner: Banner #1

The final version of this banner will take into consideration all of the comments and feedback. Thank you for participating!

Read the banner commentary here: www.wallinder.ca/new-look

Announcing a new way to explore the Layers of Health!

YouTube

Short excerpts of the interviews are being compiled for release.

They are are intended as:

• An introduction
• An example
• A quick way to explore

They will be posted in the upcoming weeks as they are produced by my son.

www.youtube.com/user/SoulSightServices

"During"

Okay, I can’t really say I was doing the ‘mobile office thing,’ but I can say that I worked in the parking lot until the last possible second and I took my phone into treatment with me. Am I crazy?!

My First Facial

Necessity? No. Luxury? Yes!

Believe it or not, I thought I’d hate it. My guys had given me a gift certificate (aren’t they great?) and I had an array of choices, but I chose the facial. Why? Pure curiosity!

"After"

Because just enjoying a facial is harder for me than one might think, after taking a call, I asked the esthetician to take a picture of me as proof that I did it.

I was hoping the goop on my face was green (‘the mask’ she called it)… and she took off whatever was over my eyes since I needed to see the key pad on my phone, but the picture on the upper right is my evidence.

Well, I’m not sure what happened to me energetically, but I did notice some blue sparks flying and I definitely felt better as you might note in the second picture to the left. 🙂

Taking your phone into treatment is against the rules, but… Okay, I have no excuse. The esthetician is to be given extra points for putting up with me.

It was a fabulous experience. Thanks Crystal! Check it out here!

This special day is specifically set aside to draw our focus to an energy and intention that is one of the most powerful in terms of harmony, growth and awareness.

Giving Thanks: Gratitude

As an energy, I can honestly say that this has been the most powerful in my growth not just as an energy worker & intuitive, but as a person. The therapeutic benefits of changing your lens to one of gratitude seems to create a rainbow cascade of perception. In terms of personal nourishment, I would consider it in the ‘essential’ category.

Compost (L) versus No Compost (R)

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I’m reminded of my garden because I love to compost. When I was establishing my garden in our new home, I moved my compost pile to an empty bed at the front of my house and the flowers in that bed were about 5X bigger than the flowers anywhere else in my yard.

You can see that something similar happened this year with the development of my back yard. The flowers on the right were missed and the flowers on the left benefited from my kitchen scraps. ————>

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It speaks to me of positive feedback loops and how, even through recycling of ‘waste,’ we are in humble relationship with everything around us. To hold gratitude for that symbiotic relationship is foundational for survival, and so much more than a holiday.

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Enough email were received in reply to the quick note I sent out about my Thanksgiving that I needed to post an update. In my email, I mentioned my mother-in-law’s dessert and so loose versions of her recipes are below:

Apple Pie:

She used a pre-bought crust, Mac apples, cinnamon, no sugar and her ‘secret ingredient’ is tapioca instead of flour to thicken it up. She probably baked it for about an hour at 400 degrees F. (I can milk her for more if these details are too sketchy. Let me know.)

Lemon Loaf:

Mix in the order given and bake at 350 for 1 hour. Drizzle a mixture of the juice of the lemon & 1/4 cup sugar over it while it’s still warm. Another ‘secret’ substitution is getting rid of the cow milk for something not containing lactose for digestive reasons.

Enjoy!

Inner knowingness, acceptance of responsibility, acceptance of what is, realistic, balanced, anchored, motivated, creative, well paced… These are some of the words used to define this month’s topic:

Empowerment

True empowerment comes from an appropriately self-centered place where external ‘props’ do not hold undue influence over your sense of well being. Some common props include:

• Approval from others: boss, spouse, friends
• Shopping: clothes etc.
• Food: consuming unconsciously

False empowerment will leave you feeling empty, unfulfilled, like you need to chase the next exciting person or event. Although emotions are a rich part of life and living, empowerment is not about chasing the good feelings or running away from the bad. Empowerment will sustain you and it was compared to sugar:

• Real empowerment is similar to complex carbohydrates which will sustain your energy levels
• False empowerment is similar to simple sugar which will give you a fast rush, but drop you just a quickly

There is a flow and a positive foundational spiral that comes from experiencing empowerment that enhances & builds your confidence, self-esteem and resilience. Holding your Higher Vision helps you maintain personal congruence and build upon this feedback loop:

Empowered Feeling –> Empowered Choices –> Empowered Action

Homework this month: With a skill you already have: Hone it, Enhance it & Share it. For optional reading you can look into Martin Seligman on confidence through competence.

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On the Border

It was the first time in over 1.5 years that I’ve been without phone or internet! *gasp* ~ AND, I lost my identity (literally).

Disconnect Internet ~ Reconnect Nature

It was high time to ground into the world differently & this opportunity couldn’t be missed! I went to see my brother and saw a whole lot more:

• The aurora borealis: we searched each night and came up lucky on the last night!
• A different pace, perspective & part of Canada
• The view from a kayak including: bald eagle, deer & raven

Great Slave Lake

This was a quick dash up to the Northwest Territories for the weekend that really changed the pace at the mobile office and started with 14 hours of driving (each way).

In hindsight I’m finding it pretty funny about ‘my identity.’ This is great! You can read all kinds of crazy energy interpretations into it: I left my wallet in a town called High Level that was my last stop prior to arrival. I had no money, ID, etc. as well as no phone, no internet… in short everything that I currently have to self-identify was gone. Isn’t that the best way to enter into newness? With a blank slate? I love the Universe!

Checking out a retired vessel now landlocked.

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Aside from some prep work, the work done was more:

• meditative & contemplative
• unwinding & supportive
• exploratory, assessing and eye-opening.

It is so easy to have tunnel vision when you focus on goals, tasks & aims and it is pretty important to also have some distance & space. Without that:

• nuances will be missed
• angles will be overlooked and
• excitement is lost

Coming back from a town with a population of 2,000 is also a bit disorienting when stepping back into an area where I’m surrounded by about a million folks. It’s an interesting sensation to plug back in!

By the way, my wallet was turned in where I left it & all of the contents were intact.

Of all the locations I ever expected to get in a bit of work, a casino was the least expected… having said that, yes I did bring my computer last night. (Home by 3 am!)

Volunteering for Fund Raising

What work could I possibly do at a casino? Well, internet was jammed for security reasons, but there’s no reason why blogs can’t be prepped when there are some breaks! No cameras either for visual proof, but I have witnesses.

Piles of $$ to Count!

I’ve done this before for a variety of different fund raising groups (theatre company, middle school, as well as the ski club) and the positions assigned to me have been:

• Chip Runner
• Cashier
• Count room

I was a count room first timer & it was by far my favorite role!

If you ever have any doubt that there is abundance everywhere try to have an experience counting a couple hundred thousand dollars in cold hard cash. No digital signal. No electronic tranfer. It was all there in denominations of $100 and lower!

The consideration around abundance would be more about flow… Flow & the avenues of delivery to acceptance.

• Do you have a channel of delivery set up to accept abundance from the Universe?
  
• What are you doing to nurture this?
  
• How much focus to you place on that structure versus the anticipated product?

Money aside, the perfect example would be nurturing your network of friends. From this you can see the relational ebb and flow inherent in the energy exchange. Abundance ~ More than just cash… but why not open to that, too?

Choices can be made on autopilot or from a place of active awareness. This foundation directly influences your feelings of empowerment.

Choices

Being carried along in an unconscious flow can lead to a sense of powerlessness, depression and feeling invisible. Factors of circumstance, external pressures and overwhelm can move you off your center affecting your ability to choose.

There are some key questions around our choices that can help you establish a baseline:

• Do you like where your life is flowing & what are your priorities?
• Why are you making the choice & are you able to make the choice you want to make?
• What are you feeling in your body about your choice?

Since a cascade of events flows from our choices and generate potential realities, the foundation is key in your manifestation experience. The characteristics of a more optimal personal sensory perspective you look for & feel into when making a clear choice are:

• Steady & stable: You have your wits about you
• ‘Clear air’ & activated: Not smoggy & clouded
• Present & alert: We can take our cues from nature

We enjoyed a brief exercise in visualizing the boundary between ourselves & the chaos around us and the homework for this month is:

For 28 days: Step off the tread mill for at least 10 minutes per day and take some moments of silence to feel into yourself for that place of peace. (Sometimes we find this time / space in unusual ways: Nina: in her closet and Barb: in her car)

Barbara recommended a book by Sonia Choquette called “True Balance”

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