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Less Reiki was involved this time and more exploration of different concepts and applying them in reference to the lives of the participants. This blog is more of a post script than a summary.

Allowing

There was much discussion as well as sharing two new Reiki books by Frans & Bronwen Stiene & some new Color Wisdom Cards by Tori Hartman. The concepts seemed to be around putting pieces together about mindset, personal evolutionary journeys, and balance.

Probably the biggest concept that needs reinforcing is that of Allowing!

• Allowing for your individual thought processes: There was a journey that took you to your conclusions & codes for life conduct.
• Allowing for evolution: Where you are is not the beginning or the end & each person is in an evolutionary process at their own pace.
• Allowing for personal pace: If you see the ‘need’ to bridge someone else to another place / space / reality, the issue is yours – not theirs. Your job is actually in evaluating your personal congruence and the choices / actions that will flow out of that.
• Allowing for multiple ‘right’ answers: Your beliefs are true to you and you empower them… but be aware that there is ALWAYS (and you know how rarely I use this word) more perspectives, which are equally right.
• Allowing for other’s choices: We ALL have free will. That you would choose differently for another says nothing and only creates stress on you (worry). There are choices that are more or less in alignment with the maximum ease & grace, but that is an individual choice.
• Allowing the power of observation: Noticing is more powerful than judging. Witnessing is more powerful than picking up potential realities. Curious compassion is more powerful than (trying to) creating a healing.
• Allowing for time: This is one of the most powerful tools we have here in 3D. Time gives us perspective, distance, a way to align the All in space so we aren’t overwhelmed…
• Allowing for multiple tiers of reality / existence: We can’t know it all… Put another way, at least 99+% of people think they know more than they actually do and wield that information often carelessly and sometimes dangerously. (That fraction of a % represents a reality I’ve heard of that is bordering on myth and definitely very deep within esoteric philosophy, but is not to be discounted or written off.) The key here isn’t a ‘reality check’, it’s humility for what is beyond our comprehension.

Qualities such as Patience, Hope, Compassion, Good Will, Endurance, Perseverance, and Faith will serve you better than anything else in accepting where you’ve been, where you are & where you will go in your life.

Pause, get quiet and center in on Your Inner Truth. When you think you are there, pause again & go deeper. If it still feels like you know anything ~ You aren’t there yet! Listen… It will sound like Joy. Rest there ~ and Allow.

The flow of choice / action will seem to be clearer & more obvious even if you are worried about making decisions from this kind of place and it doesn’t seem easy. That could be considered a characteristic of ‘ease’ versus ‘easy’ when referencing inwardly and considering the outward effect on your life and those around you.

Thanks to all who attended the event for gifts of growth, sharing & community.

I adore Emilie Conrad. If forced to pick my favorite interview, it would be the first call I did with her on Continuum Movement. I had no clue what she was about ~ and I’m still learning.

Moving Medicine

Nina & Emilie

There is a lot that goes on ‘behind the curtain’ at the mobile office and it’s usually going on at a pretty staccato pace. This last weekend the pace of the mobile office came head-to-head with Emilie Conrad’s Moving Medicine class hosted here in Calgary by Shirley McMillan.

When faced with only one option: Slow Down… my body rebelled for all it was worth. The random muscle spasms that occurred from just laying down were shocking. It’s like the tension didn’t know where to go and so it jumped from body part to body part trying to activate my slowly decompressing system.

I’m not under any illusions that the issue of being wound up has been ‘cured,’ but I have some very good clues (to take a cue from Emilie’s approach at being a CSI: Cosmic Scene Inspector) as to what will help – and for that, I’m beyond grateful.

Another less anticipated benefit of the class was the experience of the Deep Honor that was held by my fellow participants. It was tangible and something I would consider Sacred. These gentle souls were There, each present for themselves and the others.

Emilie is an inspiration in her mission to empower others to find their own flow, expression and ultimate connection with the vastness of life through fluid movement and an honoring of our evolutionary heritage.

Looking Up the Hill

Well, the confession is that a year of sitting added 10 lbs to my ‘bottom line.’ I refuse to buy new clothes because I was too focused on work to notice my shape change.

Fitness Challenge

I love hills. I love stairs. I think it is my ‘inner mountain-goat’ looking for fulfillment!

I took a break because of comments Emilie Conrad made about ‘forward thrust’ type of movement on her first LOH interview, but it’s still fun! She’ll probably give me some ‘what-for’ when I see her for her course here in Calgary next week. 🙂

Me & My Youngest

After staring at the computer all day, it clears the mind, moves the circulation and balances the energies coming from decisions, deadlines & new ideas.

A friend recently engaged me in a ‘fitness challenge.’ We have yet to hash out the details, but it will likely involve 10 lbs & willpower. Are you in?

The picture on the upper right better reflects the grade since the picture on the left makes it look pretty wimpy. I plod up the hill for ‘endurance training’ and my son sprints up the hill for ‘power training.’

Nina on Mop Up

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In the past, some doubt has been extended as to my resume.

At the best fitness level of my life, I was a ski coach, competitive tennis player (some badminton) and did mop-up in forest fire fighting. It seems to be the forest fire fighting that throws people, so I dug out an old photo taken on a burn by my old crew boss ‘Huffy.’

It’s a photo of a photo and so isn’t the greatest quality, but you can see that I even have the same haircut! I remember telling true ghost stories occasionally on the overnight burns.

Currency in friendship, working relationships, romantic relationships… for the purchase of needs & wants… as perceived value of self & others… varies!

Currency

Energy is designed to move and flow and relates to our topic of currency in every way. Hoarding & clutter or lack of honor & superficial motivation lead to stagnation and fulfillment.

Of course there are many other currencies than money. Currency can be considered:

• As a reference point for practical purposes
• As a value system for personal purposes

Your motivation and inner awareness are key. It is interesting to note the different currencies in different circumstances: family, friends, work… humanity.

Currencies evolve through your life in archetypal terms:

• Children: Fun
• Teens: Freedom
• Adults: (?) What is your currency?

There are different currencies for your different roles in the world (comparative currencies of 4D) and yet, the primary and single most important currency comes from your deepest identity where you also achieve fulfillment & peace.

It is a delight to announce the completion of the:

Bootcamp Audios

They are a set of 2 .mp3 downloads or CD’s and are designed as foundational information.

Click for the Blog of Part 1

Click for the Blog of Part 2

They were launched through Global Teleclass

& Part 2 had

over 1100 subcribers

for the live event.

Thank you

for your interest and support.

I’ve made a memo to turn off technology… right after this blog… and a few emails… and a the website(s) updates… and a couple of text messages that need sending… then I should probably tweet that I’m ‘going dark’… You know, it seems like it’s easier to be bombarded, than choose happy and quiet sanctuary.

Happiness

There are so many reasons that people have for being unhappy: guilt, obligation, judgment, seriousness, poor sense of worth, wishful thinking…

You can make different choices:

• Cut gossip & sarcasm out of your life
• Honor what makes your hear sing. Ex. Love writing? Start a journal…
• Take the first steps in learning how to be happy

“Fake it until you make it,” was a statement made in this call. Explored were concepts of sincerity, congruence, self-deception, responsibility, communication, being false, belief systems, external & internal pressures…

Barbara’s homework: Create a personal prayer to honor the abundance present in your life and do it for 30 days. Evaluate your ‘happiness quotient’ before & after.

Nina’s homework:

1. An exercise by Martin Seligman: For 10 days write down 3 positive things that happened in your day AND why they happened.
2. Laugh: rent a movie, read a funny book, have fun with friends…

The physical chemical level has to be acknowledged as well. Finding the right avenues for you is the key in creating & maintaining happiness. It is that Personal Journey that allows Life to feel like an Adventure instead of a series of right or wrong choices.

The Layers of Health Contest has been a wonderful success!

iPod Blog Contest

Congratulations to all of the winners and Thank You to all of the entrants!

The Grande Prize consists of the Spirit & Energy series downloads and a 2GB iPod shuffle.

The Runner Up Prizes consisted of the audio download of the winners choice of any of the 50 interviews conducted on Layers of Health!

The winners are:

Grande Prize: Mary Anne Stovka

Runner Up Winners & Prizes Selected: (blog linked)

1. Maria Scotchell – Richard Gordon’s audio
2. Lisa Marie Fairfax – Darren Weissman’s audio
3. Roxanne Sparks – Thomas Myers’ audio
4. Lurline Aslanian – Raphael Cushnir’s audio
5. Dawn Pinke-Anderson – Cyndi Dale’s audio
6. Yumi Okamoto – Nina Wallinder’s audio on Evolution of Perception
7. Kathy Holmes – Suzanne Scurlock-Durana’s audio on FBP
8. Victoria Trostle – Emilie Conrad’s second audio
9. Paul Buelens – Howard Martin’s audio
10. Annemarie Veltman – Richard Gordon’s audio

The details of the contest blog announcement can be found posted here on the Wallinder.ca website.

We finally have some warm weather…

I’m busy battling the bunnies who love eating my flowers. This simply entails chasing them out of my yard and putting moth balls (which they sit on) in the yard.

The Longest Day

Like the weather, I’ve been late in getting my garden going, but here is the progress of the plants I’ve been tracking for you so far.

Shoots (Tiger Lilies)

Peonies

Irises

The birds are already enjoying the yard and I can’t wait until more blossoms come out.

Along with the bunnies, the war is also on with my husband who annexed one of my beds of petunias… ~ Now the tomato zone!

This topic is so huge to life that more was indicated following from last month.

Prosperity Part 2

There is a flow that comes with prosperity and taking notice within your life, noticing the expansions and contractions can be real indicators to you. Being in synch with the flow will simply lead to the next logical step to take.

There is a key question: Whose views & values are you living?

• Yours, independently
• Cultural / societal model
• Generational / family / demographic

Being attached to emotions, being right, blaming… both inwardly and outwardly restricts the flow of abundance through the many unseen channels and affects the Laws of Attraction. Accepting what is – currently – gives you a starting place to allow for the evolutionary nature of Your beliefs to evolve in real time.

Prosperity isn’t about materialism and as contentment grows, the need to accumulate falls away. We enjoyed a brief meditative exercise at the end imagining the Universal Support from the perspective of a seed growing.

The topic of Past Lives was brought up by a listener. Your prosperity can be affected by past lives, but you have to live in and take action from the present moment. Healing can sometimes be done through past lives responsibly, but it can also re-invoke past problems. To address this, spontaneously, Nina offered a set of 3 declarations to set a current life tone.

Barbara’s Homework:

• Take this month to focus on what you Do Have – without comparing with what you don’t have
• Recommended reading: Ask and it is Given – Learning to Manifest Your Desires, By Esther & Jerry Hicks

Nina’s Homework:

• Go into the world & look for surprise evidence of Supportive Energy: A penny on the ground, sounds of laughter, a sunny day, a stranger with a smile… evidence of Universal Support.
• Recommended reading: The Little Money Bible, by Stuart Wilde

What a great time together! This started with discussion and comparison of experiences & perspectives.

Thanks to Our Hostess

Hold the Higher Vision (Be You)

This could be said always, and yet considerations of day-to-day realities must be honored, in practicality, with the unique circumstances of each individual.

We looked at many different concepts:

• Job / Career
• Higher Vision / Expression
• Culture / Foundation
• Identity on Many Layers

Gratitude to Community

The major topics had to do with finding life themes and a Truthful Expression of who we are while working with:

• ~ Time
• ~ Process
• ~ Our desires.

With multiple levels of consideration from priorities, responsibilities and dreams, negotiating a life path can be both frustrating and rewarding.

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A wonderful healing exercise was invented with a focus on giving our Heart’s Desire to each other and individual focus with a concurrent group dynamic. Healing & insights were renewing and validating.

The next Calgary Practitioner share is in August. Click here for more information.