SPRING EQUINOX - FULL MOON CEREMONY TONIGHT

SPRING EQUINOX/ FULL MOON CEREMONY
ON THE MEDICINE WHEEL OAK TRAIL BOOKS PALM HARBOR, FL.

SATURDAY, MARCH 20TH 7-8PM

DRUMMING
LIGHT INFUSION
MEDITATION - EAGLE MEDICINE POWER
OPENING THE EAST GATE AND HONORING THE 4 DIRECTIONS, CREATOR AND MOTHER EARTH
FULL MOON - THIRD CYCLE OF TRUTH
LIGHTING THE WORLD PEACE FLAME CANDLE
FMI: 727-785-1960

HOW THOSE DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER USE MEDITATION AS A TREATMENT

HOW THOSE DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER USE MEDITATION AS A TREATMENT
BY SAMANTHA HARRIS
Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be devastating. Such news can trigger overwhelming feelings of helplessness or depression. Patients and family alike may not know what to expect during this troubling time. The reality of the situation cannot be avoided though, and coping can prove difficult. Where physical treatments may fail, the ascension of one’s spirit can give miraculous results. Nurturing your soul through meditation can be a great way to increase health, happiness, and overall well being.
Certain terminal cancer’s, such as mesothelioma, have a grim prognosis. The mesothelioma life expectancy is generally eight to fourteen months after diagnosis. In instances like this where traditional medicine has been ineffective, the healing light of meditation can empower the patient, allowing them to experience the richness of life in even the bleakest of times. An effective, holistic way to treat the discomfort of cancer is yoga. Stretching and breathing techniques that are practiced during yoga are able to bring a level of peace and overall awareness to one’s day-to-day activities. These strategies can also reduce stress and anxiety associated with the illness.
Because the symptoms of mesothelioma or other terminal cancers can cause severe pain, physical activities such as Yoga may be hard to practice. Coping with the physical pain of disease can potentially be the most difficult obstacle to overcome. Traditional pain killers, such as morphine, can cloud the mind causing a reduction in one’s quality of life during their remaining days. This is where meditation techniques can be extremely beneficial.
Breath meditation, in particular, is an accessible, effective, and soothing alternative to narcotics or yoga. When dealing with breathing meditation, the goal is to not only process each breath that enters the lungs but to process the energy that is brought into the body as well. Becoming aware of this feeling and allowing it to flow freely can help the body and mind cope with the physical pain of illness.
Often times, those afflicted with terminal cancers do not explore the prospect of alternative healing until their condition has significantly deteriorated their health. Sometimes it takes the diagnosis of a destructive disease such as Mesothelioma to awaken one’s soul to the healing nature of meditation. Because mesothelioma symptoms can take twenty to fifty years to surface in patients, many sufferers have lived full lives before becoming exposed to this practice. It is painful to know that those afflicted will eventually expire, however there is comfort in knowing meditation was able to bring peace to some during such a trying time.
It should be noted, however, that there are alternative coping mechanisms to terminal illness, aside from medication or meditation. Reaching out to one’s community can provide a kind of fulfillment and comfort that simply cannot be recreated. When dealing with such circumstances, it is important to cherish one’s relationships, impacting as many lives as possible.

SPRING EQUINOX - FULL MOON CEREMONY

SPRING EQUINOX - FULL MOON CEREMONY
ALIGNMENT WITH CIRCLE OF SOUND, AND SISTERHOOD OF PLANETARY OF WATER RITES...

7:00pm MARCH 19, 2011 ON THE MEDICINE WHEEL
OAK TRAIL BOOKS, PALM HARBOR, FLORIDA

ALIGNMENT AND LIGHT INFUSION FOR THE 4 SACRED RACES OF MANKIND AND THE 4 DIRECTIONS, CREATOR AND MOTHER EARTH

DRUMMING FOR PEACE, HARMONY, JOY AND HARMONY FOR ALL...CREATING ONE ACCORD

MEDITATION AND ALIGNMENT - LIGHT INFUSION FOR THE NEW EARTH ENERGIES OF PEACE
LIGHTING THE WORLD PEACE FLAME CANDLE..

GRATITUDE OFFERING
WHITEFAWN STAR FACILITATING
FMI: 727-785-1960
PEACE IS THE PATHWAY OF PEACE

WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES CIRCLE FORMING

WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES - MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9TH AT 7:15-9:00pm
AT THE WITCHES BREW.

LA LOBA WOLF WOMAN
purchase the book and be ready to review the 1st 2 CHAPTERS. We will relate through storytelling, meditation and soul retrieval to reclaim the "LOST SOUL" OF WOMAN.
FMI: 727-785-1960

WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES CIRCLE FORMING

WISE WOMAN CIRCLE FORMING IN FEBRUARY AT OAK TRAIL BOOKS

based on the book, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Este's.
Meeting on 2 Sundays/month 3:00- or Wed. evening 6:30-

The purpose for our gathering is to heal the psyche or “Soul” of Woman; individually and collectively...by opening the Door to the psyche through storytelling, body talk, drumming, and meditation and healing modalities.


This will be ongoing for 6 months or until the book is finished. We will be reviewing one chapter at a time and it is important that you read each chapter before coming to the circle. That way we can do the work of healing; where we can share our story and heal the fragmented parts of our soul that are split apart, or lost. We will do a healing meditation or modality at each gathering.


This will be a Sisterhood of women to heal the “soul” of Woman.

Our purpose is to regain relationship with the Wild Woman or the instinctual nature in each of us..to do this we will learn to practice good medicine.


You will learn to work with your power animal, crystals, angels, etc.


Please rsvp asap, so that we can begin. These are the choices, and if you can let me know your preference. Gratitude offering write to: Pathwayofpeace@yahoo.com

FULL MOON FIRESIDE DRUMMING CIRCLE
OAK TRAIL BOOKS, PALM HARBOR, FL
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011 7:00-8:00PM

JOIN US FOR THIS POWERFUL MOON OF TRANSFORMATION
DRUMMING, SONG, MEDITATION, RITUAL
FIRST MOON CYCLE LESSON - LEARN THE TRUTH AND BE ALL THAT YOU ARE
RITUAL:
RECLAIM YOUR DREAMS...PLANT SEEDS FOR THE NEW YEAR
USING THE POWERFUL ENERGY OF THIS 11:11 PORTAL
BE THE MASTER THAT YOU ARE...CREATE THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS

MAY PEACE AND LOVE PREVAIL ON EARTH...

GRATITUDE OFFERING
WHITEFAWN STAR FACILITATING
PLEASE BRING YOUR DRUMS AND INSTRUMENTS

PRAYER TO GREAT SPIRIT

PRAYER TO THE GREAT SPIRIT



O Great Spirit, who art before all else and who dwells in every object, in every person and in every place, we cry unto Thee. We summon Thee from the far places into our present awareness.


O Great Spirit of the North, who gives wings to the waters of the air and rolls the thick snowstorm before Thee, Who covers the Earth with a sparkling crystal carpet above whose deep tranquility every sound is beautiful. Temper us with strength to withstand the biting blizzards, yet make us thankful for the beauty which follows and lies deep over the warm Earth in its wake.

O Great Spirit of the East, the land of the rising Sun, Who holds in Your right hand the years of our lives and in Your left the opportunities of each day. Brace us that we may not neglect our gifts nor lose in laziness the hopes of each day and the hopes of each year.

O Great Spirit of the South, whose warm breath of compassion melts the ice that gathers round our hearts, whose fragrance speaks of distant springs and summer days, dissolve our fears, melt our hatreds, kindle our love into flames of true and living realities. Teach us that he who is truly strong is also kind, he who is wise tempers justice with mercy, he who is truly brave matches courage with compassion.

O Great Spirit of the West, the land of the setting Sun, with Your soaring mountains and free, wide rolling prairies, bless us with knowledge of the peace which follows purity of striving and the freedom which follows like a flowing robe in the winds of a well-disciplined life. Teach us that the end is better than the beginning and that the setting sun glorifies not in vain.

O Great Spirit of the heavens, in the day's infinite blue and amid the countless stars of the night season, remind us that you are vast, that you are beautiful and majestic beyond all of our knowing or telling, but also that you are no further from us than the tilting upwards of our heads and the raising of our eyes.

O Great Spirit of Mother Earth beneath our feet, Master of metals, Germinator of seeds and the Storer of the Earth's un-reckoned resources, help us to give thanks unceasingly for Your present bounty.

O Great Spirit of our souls, burning in our heart's yearning and in our innermost aspirations, speak to us now and always so that we may be aware of the greatness and goodness of Your gift of life and be worthy of this priceless privilege of living.

© Noel Knockwood

Note: Within minutes after posting the Wake up Call of Dec 30, 2010 I received this beautiful Native American picture and prayer in my email from a dear friend Gabrielle, in Chili, who received it from another dear friend, Ashok, in India. Thank you dear friends for showing us this treasure. Also thank you Noel Knockwood for creating the Prayer.

Also, Bob is painting two pictures of Native Americans releasing birds to the Skies. He immediately saw how he could do a third painting in the same idea and combine them all with the Prayer, displaying them in a prominent place in our home.

I saw the value of it all and the timeliness that it represented to the message from AA Michael. If this isn't Oneness in Spirit, I don't know what is.



Love to you all.

Nancy Tate