July 2006
Dear Friends
Summer greetings from a hot, dry Suffolk. After
the last, long cold winter, it feels good to relax
in the unaccustomed summer heat, and to slow down
for a while. Lying on a rug on the lawn yesterday,
brought back memories of long, hood summers,
and I thought how infrequently we manage to lie on
the ground in this country, close to the earth, inhaling
the smell of the earth and the plants, watching the
sky and listening to the birds and insects all around
- and how infrequently, perhaps do we give ourselves
permission to completely relax and 'just be'.
I feel it's important at the moment, to take as
much time as possible to be still. When world situations
flare up, it is easy to become distraught - our hearts
reach out to those affected - we may become angry
at the politicians and their hidden agendas and power
games. This is good and appropriate - we need to
have our hearts and eyes opened - to become increasingly
aware of what is really going on around us. We may
also be affected, consciously or unconsciously, physically
and/or emotionally, by the energetic trauma waves,
rippling out across the world. We may perhaps feel
extremely tired, or anxious or tearful. Often we
want to 'do something' to stop it all - to heal the
wounds and the torn apart communities - but we don't
know how, and we feel frustrated and powerless..
I feel it's important at this time, to stay as still
and quiet as possible, to carefully observe world
situations and our own reactions, and to try to keep
our eyes open to understand what is really going
on both personally and politically - as well as to
try to understand what the bigger picture and purpose
might be in all of this.
If we have a desire to 'do something', then perhaps
this is a good time to consider what our best contribution
might be - as well as to look at how much we have
healed from trauma and brought an end to abuse, in
our own lives and experiences - and at whether we
can empower ourselves to change these unresolved
reactive patterns in our own lives and communities.
Finally, we can hold a vision of peace, compassion,
understanding and peaceful empowerment for the world
and for ourselves. If we believe that our thoughts
are powerful, and can affect the outcome of situations
both worldwide and personally, then perhaps we need
to be very conscious at this time about the outcomes
we perceive for the world and for ourselves, now
and in the future - and of our own energetic contribution
to the background level of feeling.
I'm not sure whether we can prevent current situations
from escalating, because perhaps for the higher purpose,
it has to get worse before it gets better. Maybe
then we will really see the truth, and really get
to the point where the people of the world will say
no, despite their politicians - who knows? Meanwhile
we can perhaps try to not add to the level of emotional
and energetic trauma, but instead we can try to hold
a steady note of love, peace, compassion and hope
for the world and for all concerned.
In my experience, this approach is also helpful
in relation to challenging situations we may face
in our own lives, as well as when we feel disturbed
by situations in the lives of those around us. The
headless chicken approach is definitely not helpful!
Learning not to panic must be one of the most valuable
life skills we can each develop! The energy of peace
is a very powerful energy.
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* New Essence from Canadian Essence Maker Lumina
(aka Nichola Roberts)
'Healing
From Experiences of Abuse'
(on any and all dimensions)
This essence came out
of a search for an answer to the questions: "Why
is it so hard for us stand in our truth (in relation
to ourselves
and in our relationships with others). What is true
about us, beyond our fear?"
The experience of abuse creates records of abuse,
and a consciousness paradigm which needs to be released.
Within this consciousness paradigm one can become
both the 'abuser' and the 'abused'. These roles continue
to be played out from a subconscious/unconscious
level. For example: we can become overwhelmed by
even the idea of standing in our light and power
-feeling unable to stand up to abusers. This can
be within our personal relationships, within the
workplace, or in relation to our community, to religious
organisations, to authority structures, to organisations
or to governments.
We can become abusers ourselves, as a result of
not feeling able to stand in our truth and express
it - instead we may resort to both subversive or
blatant acts of abuse - for example: through emotional
or political manipulation; by twisting and turning
things in order to get our own way, in order to feel
personally safe and secure; by abusing others and
feeling justified in doing this because we ourselves
feel that we have been abused. Neglect is also a
form of abuse. This can take the form of self-neglect
and self-abuse through neglect, or neglecting to
ensure the welfare of others.
What keeps us down, as well as what's keeps us
in the dynamic of abusing ourselves and others, is
our deep sense of powerlessness and our fear of power
- our own and other people's. These continually repeated
fear patterns prevent the world from healing. As
co-creators of our reality, we have the potential
to create a very different expression and experience
now: it is up to us to participate in transforming
our reality and how we relate to ourselves and to
the world.
The purpose of this essence is to help us to transform
our reality - to step out of an old paradigm that
humanity has lived within for lifetimes, so that
we can co-create a new reality and experience on
this planet. This essence helps us to build new pathways
of expression that move us away from fear and into
an experience of personal truth, empowerment and
safety.
'Healing from Experiences of Abuse' has been created
by combining onto one multidimensional essence,
the understanding of 93 different essences (drawn
from Lumina's 'Portals of Light' range, as well
as from the Light Heart Essences range). Each of
these essences relates to one of the many different
and complex aspects of abuse - both personally
and globally, in this lifetime as well as through
all life experience, and all levels of our being.
'Healing from Experiences of Abuse' will interact
with each individual at whatever level they can
currently embrace, in healing the patterns of abuse
in their own experience and in their relationship
with themselves, as well as with the world.
Try to imagine humanity and how different the expression
of humanity might have been if abuse had never occurred.
Feel the lightness and joy of being that would be
experienced if love, and the true expression of love,
trust and acceptance, had been humanity's experience.
The vision of a completely different reality that
comes with this is enormous and joyous. We need to
develop awareness in all our actions, interactions
and in what we express, because in them lies the
possibility of creating new ways of being. We need
to find the courage within us to step into healthier
forms of expression. The old ways must go because
they create suffering and despair.
Additional notes: It is abuse and the records of
abuse that each one has experienced, that have prevented
us from being able to stand in the Light and fullness
of our being and our truth, to hold this and to give
the expression of our true being to the world.
It is important that
on some level we are willing to release the 'records
of abuse', prior to working
with this essence. For therapists working with clients,
it may be helpful to check this, using kinesiology
or dowsing. You can also use the following with yourself,
or with clients: centre yourself within your heart
and make sure that you are willing to surrender -
and then state: "I AM releasing any and all
records of abuse, from all levels of my energy fields
and bodies, through all time and space, and on every
dimension; as well as the consciousness created through
the experience of abuse".
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here to buy this essence
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Beth’s Fundraising
for Brazil
Our daughter Beth,
who will be 21 years old this month, is going to
Brazil at the end of August, to
work, for four to five months, in an orphanage, 120k
from Brasilia. The orphanage cares for some 200 children.
She has been wanting to do this since she was 12
years old when she first became interested in children’s
welfare worldwide. Beth has served on the panel of
the Children’s Rights Alliance and at 16, she
spoke at the United Nations Special Session on Children.
Currently, Beth has
saved nearly £3,000 from
her earnings as a film and DVD editor and from bar-maiding
and helping to run a vegetable shop. This has paid
for her air fares, inoculations, plus courses in
Portuguese and teaching English as a foreign language,
and for some of her food and lodging whilst she is
there. She still needs to raise a further £2,000,
to pay for the rest of her keep, as well as to help
the orphanage to keep running and to fund more of
the help that they desperately need in order to continue
their work.
Beth would be very grateful for any contribution,
however small, to help her to do this. If you click
on the following link, or copy and paste it into
your internet browser, you will be able to read more
about the orphanage and also you'll be able to make
donations through http://www.justgiving.com/bethtobrazil
All
donations are secure and are sent electronically to
GAP Activity Projects.
If you are a UK taxpayer,
Justgiving.com will automatically reclaim 28% Gift
Aid on your behalf, so your donation is worth even
more. Any money raised through Justgiving.com over
Beth's target of £2,000, goes directly to
the orphanage to enable them to continue with their
work. None of this money goes to Beth.
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The Kids Company
One of the organisations
that has inspired me the most in the last year
has been Kid’s Company.
Based in London, and founded and led by the visionary
psychotherapist Camila Batmanghelidjh, Kid’s
Company supports around 6,000 severely challenged
children every year.
Once Kid’s Company
take on a child they stick with them through thick
and thin, and sensitively
and flexibly, try to meet their unmet needs for counselling,
mentoring, education, nutritious meals, clothes and
medical advice. Where needed, they also make sure
that the children are provided with safe and appropriate
housing, they support the children through any court
hearings, as well as supporting them in getting any
medical care they might need. They also run a preventative
programme, working directly with children in inner
city schools.
Last year, Kid’s Company wer awarded a three
year grant from the government. This covers half
of their annual running costs of £2.5 million
pounds. The remaining money they have to raise through
donations and match funding in order to be able to
continue to receive their governmental grant. They
are also looking for more volunteer teachers and
therapists to help them with their work, in addition
to needing donations of all kinds of equipment (see
their wish list below).
Kids Company Wish List: Computers,
Computer packages and accessories, DV Camera,
Media and Graphics Equipment,
Tools, Arts Materials, Education Materials, Office
Materials, Food items, New Clothes/Sportswear, Bedding,
Toiletries, Kitchen appliances, Toys, Sports
equipment, Painting
and decorating materials, Music equipment.
From July of this year
onwards, Light Heart Essences will be donating
a proportion of each month’s
sales to support the work of Kids Company.
Also - £1, from the sale of each bottle of
'Healing
from the Experience of Abuse', will go to
Kids Company.
Please click on the following link, or copy and
paste it into your internet browser, in order to
read more about the extraordinary, inspiring and
dedicated work of Camila and her teams at Kids Company:
www.kidsco.org.uk
With love and blessings to you all
from Rose
and all at Light Heart Essences.
