I want to welcome each of you to my new webpage! Your comments and reflections are very welcomed here.
Blessings,
Danielle
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DANIELLE JACKSON MScD
(505) 891-9890
email: akesa@earthlink.net www.dancethespiral.com
September/October Newsletter 2005
Releasing
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
I want to thank those who came out and were available to receive the message on “The Paradigm of Peace”. Your presence with me was wonderful and I feel that we were all blessed by the awareness of the changes that lie before us. I found it very sad, yet very interesting, to hear of the destruction that the hurricane Katrina brought during the time that the message was being delivered. If there needed to be a confirmation of the message… that in itself (the hurricane) was enough. Unfortunately, unless we are willing to make major changes in how we have been living our lives…there will be more to come.
The above quoted words are sad yet they hold the essence of potential change and transformation of the old and the re-establishment of new ideas and practices. My prayers have gone out to those that are experiencing the after effects of the destruction brought about by Katrina. Yet my prayers are full of requests by the many who are experiencing the loss of a loved one, or the loss of a home or job/career and life-altering changes within their own health. Throughout our country there are many who are struggling just to stay afloat without much hope that there will be a change in time enough for it to make a difference in their lives and the lives of their families and friends.
The temptation is to continue to hold on while still looking for a way to remedy our situations. Unfortunately, the things that we have been taught, the solutions that we have experienced in our past are no longer working, no matter how diligently we apply them. Everywhere we look there seems to be another impending crisis that seems to be beyond our ability to change or even meet. We look to the government to somehow fix our dilemma. We look for someone to blame for the circumstances occurring in our lives without being willing to accept at least partial responsibility for the conditions that exist in our lives.
We have been looking everywhere for solutions except to our source…God. We have been looking every for a remedy except within ourselves. Right now we are being asked to release the old ways and open our arms wide to embrace the new. To release the wars we have occurring within our own minds and create a place of peace within ourselves and in creating it to be then willing to share with our family, friends and neighbors here at home and in the world. It is time to release the judgments, grievances and guilt and instead be open to embracing love. To allow our selves to open to the love of God and in receiving it for ourselves we can then extend to our brothers regardless of their circumstances, their politics, their religion or their skin color.
We are being asked to make different choices about the direction of our government, our cities, our states, our world, and especially our homes.
Unless we begin to include God in our choices we still haven’t chosen much at all. Our currency boasts “In God we trust”…but do we really? It seems that we include in our lives those we trust but how space have we made for God to dwell within.
We are being asked to make different choices about how we utilize the resources of the earth. We are being asked to respect and honor all forms of life. Including the life of our planet. We have made choices in our past that only serve the few not the many and those choices are beginning to wreck havoc on our environment and weather patterns.
There will be no change unless we are willing to be the change agents. Agents for peace, love and healing are needed desperately now in this world. As I understand it the pay is not very significant but the rewards are huge. I wonder how many will be willing to release their attachments to the old, step up to the challenge and become agents of peace.
Blessings,
Danielle
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Please call or email to find out the location for the gatherings.
Workshops:
ACIM On going
Tuesdays 10a.m.-12p.m.
Friday 7p.m.-9p.m.
Both are offered by donation
September 22nd, Fall equinox meditation 7-9p.m. donation
September 21st, 28th, October 5th: How to establish a Spiritual Practice for transforming your life…7p.m.-9p.m. Cost: $60.00 Topics such as visualization, meditation, affirmation, ceremony, ritual, the chakra system etc. will be discussed and shown how to effectively utilize these and the relevance for incorporating them into your life.
Sage Ways: I will be presenting two classes at Sage Ways:
1). Introduction to A Course in Miracles: Saturday 9:30-12:30 October 15th
2). Chakras-Doorways to Self-Awareness: Thursday 6p.m.-9p.m. October 20th
Please call/email for more information.
November 4th, 5th & 6th: ACIM Workshop-The Undoing and the Happy Dream. Friday 6-9p.m.; Saturday 9a.m-5p.m.; Sunday 9a.m.-3P.M. Cost: $180.00 Itinerary and workshop details upon request. Lunch included Sat&Sun.
