Here's to Your Magnificence - Inspiration for the Soul Issue 68 - with Debbie "Takara" Shelor   "Inspiring personal growth and empowerment through uplifting & informative self help articles about spirituality, dolphins, sacred travel, connecting with nature, healing, transforming the past, shamanism, world peace, living in a sacred way, product and service updates, plus much more"

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IN THIS ISSUE
 
Live 8 – Making a Positive Difference
Hope to See You This Week
July 5th, 8:00 p.m. wherever you are, join in this global meditation
On a Wing and a Prayer by Debbie "Takara" Shelor
While We Are Away (What's on sale?)
 
HELLO EVERYONE:
 
May you be blessed in the radiance of the One.
 
Life continues to unfold in the most magical of ways.
 
Does anyone know how to get in touch with Ann Hughes – the one who embodies St. Francis of Assisi? One of our readers asked, and I haven’t connected with her personally for 4 or 5 years. If you know how to reach her, please let me know. While we are looking for people, here is another one I would also love to connect with if you know her whereabouts. Darshini Heendenia – I last saw her in Florida 8 or 9 years ago.
 
LIVE 8 – MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE
 
Did you catch any of the Live 8 concert this past weekend? Wow, what a powerful experience! I am sometimes very pleasantly surprised by the people of this world. It is so easy to look at what isn’t working. But how many times do we get to see compassion and people committed to change on the scale we saw it for this event?
 
I was delighted that Will Smith, the star of Independence Day, said that on the “Fourth of July we celebrate Independence, but today we celebrate our Interdependence.” We are one world. We all matter. What is happening in Africa is not O.K.
 
Everyone began snapping their fingers every 3 seconds. Every 3 seconds a child dies in Africa – from starvation and disease. As we began snapping our fingers, Jes looked at me with those big inquisitive blue eyes and said, “Every time we snap our fingers a child dies in Africa?” And I said, “Yes.” It provided a deep level of understanding for him.
 
The concerts held simultaneously on 10 stages around the globe potentially drew viewers in the billions. The message was that we want the G8 leaders who begin their work in Scotland on July 6th to take serious steps to end poverty on our planet.
 
You can visit http://www.live8live.com to sign the petition indicating that you want to see global change. And the One Campaign website is here: http://www.one.org/About.aspx
 
HOPE TO SEE YOU THIS WEEK
 
As we travel to the Northeastern United States this week, we hope to see you.
 
Raven is teaching the 9 Fires of Truth and building a Medicine Wheel of Peace at Lily Dale in New York on Wednesday, July 6th. The workshop is a powerful time of energy movement and upliftment – truly a life changing experience. I just love synchronicity. How much better could it get than the G8 summit in Scotland beginning on the day that Raven is leading this medicine wheel workshop and activation? Come to Lily Dale to add your energy, voice, and intention to literally help shift the world. It is also a new moon – the perfect time for setting new intention.
 
As soon as he is finished at Lily Dale, we head north to New Brunswick to visit family and friends. It has been years since we were there and we are very excited to see everyone.
 
When we return, Raven is doing an intro evening followed by a workshop and medicine wheel creation and activation in Woodstock, Vermont. Jes and I will be there. We would love to meet everyone from the East Coast. Curtis Hollow Farm, Curtis Hollow Road, Woostock, Vermont July 16th, 7:00 p.m., introduction and ceremony July 17th, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., workshop and building medicine wheel Contact Sue Halligan (Sullivan) - phone in Boston 617-734-1768, in Vermont 617-734-1768, email: shalligan@aol.com for details and directions.
 
July 5th - 7th, 8:00 p.m. wherever you are, join in this global meditation
By Debbie "Takara" Shelor (http://www.DolphinEmpowerment.com, http://www.SpiritofNature.org)
 
Several years ago I received the following powerful technology while in meditation. There has never been a better time to use it.
 
Please join together individually or in groups to do this meditation for the earth. Share this meditation with friends, colleagues, everyone you can think of who shares concern about global issues and is interested in peace, plenty, joy, and harmony for this world that we all share.
 
True prayer is the feeling or vibration that you reverberate out when you are thinking a thought. So the only way to manifest an intention is to be in a glorious mood when you set the intention. With that in mind:
 
Close your eyes.
Take a few slow deep breaths.
Focus your attention on your heart.
Think of everything that you can think of that you are grateful for. And give thanks. Think of several things you love to do that bring you joy. Feel that joy.
Think of times when you felt glorious and just sit within that feeling.
Feel the love of the One showering you with blessings. See or sense this as a beam or column of light coming down and engulfing you from above.
See this light surrounding you and continuing down into the heart of Mother Earth. Allow this loving light to penetrate your every cell. Breathe it in. Feel the luscious splendor of direct connection with Source.
I now call you to remember the rapture of Source Love, Divine Perfection, Oneness, the Peace that Passes Understanding. Bask in the radiance of this love.
Feel it.
Breathe it.
Breathe it in and breathe it out.
Become it.
Feel this love in all that you are.
Call on your spiritual allies – the angels, your Higher Self and other guides that assist you. You are reminded at this time that your asking is their invitation to assist.
Imagine yourself now part of a gigantic circle of people praying this prayer. Imagine, if you can, that every person who has ever prayed for a positive shift for planet earth is now standing side by side in this giant circle – women, men, and children of every race, every religion, every continent, every country, every economic level, every level of health, every level of happiness, every level of peace. Each has called in the light and called in assistance from beyond the veil.
See these people in a giant circle with all the guides in an even larger circle surrounding them.
Each person is standing in their own pillar of light completely linked up with their Higher Self and Original Source Creator. See their radiance.
In the center of the circle, see or sense a huge golden sphere of light - a giant ball of golden white light pulsating with the love, the creative energy, the light that is the One. Place planet earth inside this golden sphere. See our planet bathed in love, in light, in radiance, in joy.
See each person sending a beam of light and of love from their heart to this golden sphere. Send such a beam from your own heart. See the love passing from your heart, and many other hearts, into the sphere and returning from the sphere as Source love.
As more love passes, more love is created, so the love and light continues to grow and expand and become deeper and more vast.
See the sphere begin to slowly spin. The energy from the love is raising the vibration of the people, of the sphere, of mother earth, continuing to increase the vibration. Feel the pulsing of the love coming off the earth and the sphere radiating out into the Universe. Let that love envelope you.
In that space, envision a new earth. See people laughing. See lush gardens and clean water everywhere. See joy and well being in everyone and everything. Feel how vibrant and alive you feel by being in this world. And realize that every person is fundamentally important to the whole. See how each person, place, and thing is intricately linked to each other and to you.
Feel what it feels like to be an individual and to be the One simultaneously.
Hold that feeling and then reverberate out to the Universe that you wish for that new world to manifest now. Do it joyfully and from the heart.
Send blessings to all those who are making global decisions. And know that every decision you make also impacts the entire world.
See yourself extending a hand of support to another. Regardless of your circumstances, there is always something of value you have to offer, even if it is simply your radiant smile. Feel this feeling of love as long as you would like.
Slowly open your eyes.
Send gigantic roots deep into mother earth and bring your awareness fully back into your body right here right now.
 
You may return at any time to this Divine connection by simply remembering the feeling of being there.
 
On a Wing and a Prayer by Debbie "Takara" Shelor
 
Every now and then a person needs to go on pilgrimage. Mine tend to be some sort of car excursion. But that certainly isn’t the only pilgrimage possible. Of course when you start out on a journey, you don’t necessarily know that you are going on a pilgrimage. If you are headed for some sacred site or something, then that is obviously your intention. But other times, you are on it before you even realize it.
 
A pilgrimage is a truly empowering and life defining moment or set of circumstances. It is what the knights used to go on and they always ended up having to slay dragons in order to continue. Modern day dragons are always cloaked in the most unusual outfits. And often your pilgrimage is well underway before you even realize that is what is happening.
 
But a pilgrimage is always about the journey and who you become in the process. And in that regard, all of life is a pilgrimage of sorts. Heroes are those who face challenges and look into the depths of their being and find a skill, a gift, a place of inner peace that they never knew existed. In the face of adversity, they not only survive, but they actually thrive. And we are all given numerous opportunities to prove ourselves that sort of hero.
 
I ended up on a pilgrimage with a friend a few years ago. A 10-day journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Mt. Shasta, California, to Ashland, Oregon, to Gold Beach, Oregon, through Arizona and finally arriving back in Santa Fe an entirely transformed individual. It seemed like a million different things happened. There were enough stories to fill a book and perhaps one day it will be written. We had to deal with wind and rain and air mattresses that collapsed. We found out after driving all day that the road we were on was washed out up ahead and it would be 5 more hours of driving to arrive at our hotel. Something seemed majorly wrong with our vehicle and every time we got it above 45 miles per hour and hit the slightest pump in the road, the steering wheel began to shake and then the entire vehicle. And then there were all the esoteric and other worldly adventures sprinkled in just for fun. It was definitely an adventure and we were being called upon to overcome obstacles and reach deep within. While we were in Arizona, a friend channeled that we were on a pilgrimage. We had gotten on our trusty stead and headed out into the desert to find ourselves. It helped us to understand.
 
Follow this link to read the remainder of On a Wing and a Prayer - Following Faith, Intuition, & Trust

Blessings to your journey,
Debbie

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