Spirit of Nature Issue 70

Here's to Your Magnificence - Inspiration for the Soul
Issue 70 - with Debbie "Takara" Shelor

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IN THIS ISSUE

Initiation by Debbie "Takara" Shelor
The Meaning of Peace by Raven
Spirit of Nature Product and Service Update
White Eagle Woman

HELLO EVERYONE:

May you be blessed in the radiance of the One.

I gave myself a gift recently. I've waited 3 years to treat myself to an all white gold BioElectric Shield. I love the look. I love the vibration. And I am thrilled with the protection. Thanks Virginia, Chaz, and the whole BioElectric Shield crew for making these amazing products available. Visit BioElectric Shield to see the great new pictures now available of each of the shield models.

As usual we have many fabulous projects underway. Raven is negotiating details to travel to Australia and South Africa to teach 9 Fires of Truth workshops and build Medicine Wheels of Peace. I'm in partnership with 3 other women creating a new line of body care products - guaranteed to be off the charts vibrationally.

Jes turns seven soon. We're in the planning stages of a Scooby-Doo birthday complete with a mystery to solve. I don't know which one of us is more excited.

The next Earth Sky (sweat) Lodge is this Saturday, 5:15 p.m. at Spirit of Nature Retreat. Call 505-455-0370 or email to R.S.V.P. Visit Earth Sky (sweat) Lodge for details, and see directions to find out how to get here.

"Takara's new Essence, called "Being the Light," was a wonderful binding force for our recent event around that topic. It mixed old world magic with new world wonder and imagination. She is a genuine alchemist, healer, and guide for those who are now infusing themselves with the power of INTENTION--focused and expressed in these vibrant, easy-to-use mixtures. We are excited to have her skills along for our journeys!"
- Daniel Jacob, http://www.reconnections.net, http://www.thestarchildren.com

I trust you will deLight in this month's article as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Enjoy!

INITIATION by Debbie "Takara" Shelor

What is Initiation?

It is you, living your daily life, stepping into greater and greater levels of Truth. It is the process of remembering that you are a spark of Divinity having a human experience and remembering how to rise above circumstances and be at peace. It is a magical moment when you let go of your pain, your suffering, or one of your limiting beliefs, and step forward as a more empowered individual closer to being your highest potential.

This earthly experience is glorious. It is full of every wild thing one can imagine from the miracle and awe of birth to the pain, sadness, and despair of the diverse forms of mayhem we have believed and caused to be real. I'm talking about war, poverty, physical pain, gruesome death, emotional and physical abuse . . . the list goes on.

You'll notice that I said birth is a miraculous and awe inspiring thing. It does not have to include pain. It does not have to take hours. It does not have to be what it has become.

I experienced a low level of pain during the 6 hours it took to birth my son. As I've worked on my book about pregnancy as a spiritual experience, I've talked with countless women who have actually been in an ecstatic state, feeling no pain whatsoever, and giving birth in under an hour. I am convinced that we could have had a similar experience if he had not been backwards.

This is what some would consider a complication. For us, Raven and I, it was a challenge. It was our Initiation. Backwards children can't find the canal as easily as those facing the other way. And with each contraction comes pain in the low back. I knew it all along. (No I was never hooked up to monitors in a doctor's office telling me this. I simply knew. I knew he was a boy and I knew he was backwards.) I started telling him at 5 months that he needed to turn around. And I'm sure he tried, bless his precious heart.

Finally that magical moment came.

The moment that must come in order for you to fully step into your Power. The moment when you are terrified, when you have no where to turn, when you have exhausted your options and know that you don't have the answer to get out of the situation, and you must fully turn it over to the greater part of you - to the Divine. It is in that moment that you find true and lasting peace. It is in that moment that you step into your Truth and into your true power. It is your moment of Initiation. It is the moment when you must reach deep within yourself and do whatever must be done to come through to the other side. You must face your worst fears, you must take a step even though you don't know how, and you simply have to find enough faith and hope within yourself to continue forward. It is hard. It is very hard. And once you've reached the other side, you will experience such a profound feeling of liberation that you will have no words with which to express it.

Five hours into labor, Jes couldn't find the canal. I'd read about other women who had gone through this and they would reach up assist the head from the inside. We tried that with no success. Raven and I just stared into each others eyes without saying anything, each having a million unresolved questions, knowing we were in that crucial moment where something had to be done. I was too far dilated to even consider getting into a vehicle and rushing to a hospital. It was just the two of us. Insane as that may sound, it is what we both had concluded as the way our son wanted to be birthed after much prayer and inner reflection. So it was just us. At least we thought so any way.

We were both very concerned. What to do? As he stared into my eyes, he asked me, "What do you want to do?" And I simply said, "I don't know." I don't know - the three most empowering words I'd ever uttered. The truth is I, the little I, had no idea what to do. And as I said those words, the entire situation was turned over to something much greater than myself, Raven's self, and our small personalities. The entire Universe swooped in and took over. I had surrendered. I had acknowledged to myself, to him, to God, that I didn't know. It is unbelievable how freeing that is.

You are not alone. You never have been. You don't have to know the answers. You just have to know you are truly connected with your Divine Self - and not some astral entity or other negative expression of your own ego. And you have to know that you - yourself and your little personality - don't know. And thenmagically you do know what to do. You know what to say. And you are at peace. You finally come to the profound realization that you truly don't know the outcome. Yet you know it will be O.K. regardless of the outcome. You let go of any expectations you might have had about the way things would go or what the result will be. And you are simply and totally in the now moment. Every moment is new and fresh and completely free of expectation. Time stands still. There was no past and there is no future. There is only now.

And in the now I began to breath out (tone) sounds that I have no idea where they came from. They were deep and strong and gutteral. Truly odd, almost scary sounds. They were not sounds of pain. They were primal. They were full of power. And I then had that 45 minute birth everyone else told me about. The one without pain. The one where you are definitely in a trance state, not of this world, and completely engulfed by the loving arms of the Divine mother.

And when Jes emerged into the water supported by the loving hands of his father, the cord was wrapped around his neck and his arm. He couldn't turn around when I encouraged him to. He was locked in position and had to stay that way until the curtain call. What a precious little dear one. I finally understood.

I had been through a powerful Initiation and had come out a better person on the other side. My son was perfectly formed, small - just liked I'd asked for - and beautiful. I was exhausted. Not because it had been so physically hard, but because the experience had been so emotionally intense.

Every moment of every day is an Initiation. Sometimes you can get so caught up in the day to day that you forget that you are even on a journey back to Self.

Other times, which many seem to be facing right now, it is in your face. No escape. Child birth is the perfect Initiation because once labor starts, you can't bail out and say, "You know I really don't think I want to do this." Well you can say it, but it doesn't change anything. You have to walk through that fire. You have to face it. You can't put it off. You can't ignore it and hope it will go away. It is in your face right here, right now, and is demanding your full attention.

As I speak with dear ones both near and far, they share with me that they are having to walk through fire right now. Some are facing the death of a loved one. Others are facing possible cancer or other very scary diseases.

As I said recently to one I deeply care about, "You can do this." This is the moment you have placed before yourself. If you could not do this. If you did not have the resources, the wisdom, and the help to face and move beyond this challenge, you would not be in this position. This is one of the most powerful moments of your life because who you are will forever be changed by this moment in time. You can rise to the occasion, calling in the Divine and receiving assistance from countless energies beyond the veil, or you can wallow in misery, depression, fear, and even potentially death. You must find peace even in this. You must know all is well even in this. Regardless of the outcome, regardless if your worst fears have become manifest, you must find peace with it.

Although truly scary, these moments you can't run away from are actually the most empowering because you have to face them. As humans we find it so very easy to run away, to busy ourselves with so many things so we don't have to think about the tiger chasing us. When our body is sending us a pain signal, indicating that something is not right, that something is out of harmony, that something we are doing or thinking or saying is detrimental to our achievement of happiness, peace, and our highest potential, we push it aside with a pain killer. Or perhaps we are feeling sad or upset, we simply distract ourselves and don't deal with the fact that we are experiencing negative emotion - the signal from our inner self that we are "off track."

It is time to face whatever is happening head on, heal our remaining fears, limiting beliefs, and blocks and find the peace that is ours.

If you want assistance in healing those remaining fears, limiting beliefs, and blocks, the best thing I can recommend is my ebook Freeway to Freedom. It contains the answers you are seeking. It contains the tools, techniques, and meditations that will permanently heal those things in your way. And it is fun. It is uplifting. It is the dolphin way of healing with ease and grace.

I bless you in your journey,
Debbie

THE MEANING OF PEACE by Raven

What is Peace?

I sit here in our beautiful home in Nambe, New Mexico contemplating the definition of the word Peace. After having many conversations with people, it appears that we all have our own unique interpretations of what peace is. So I would like to describe what it means to me.

As I was thinking about this the other day I pulled out my Webster’s Dictionary to see what it said about Peace. Peace was defined as the absence of war or hostility.

That’s it?

The absence of something sounds like a vacuum. It must be more than that. We talk about it all the time. We pray for it. It’s on all the TV shows and in the papers. It must have some substance, feeling, or some kind of expression related to it.

I believe that Peace has many layers of expression. I believe that it is a living thing with an energy that we can connect to. I believe it has substance and meaning. I also believe that there are different types of Peace.

The first one is Inner Peace. This is a state of being, a state of centeredness, tranquility and self-assurance. It is related to our sense of confidence in ourselves and trust that we are taken care of and protected at all times. It is a sense of well-being and a knowing that all is right in our world.

We also have Peace within our relationships, our communities and our nation. I believe that Peace is related to trust, the trust that all aspects of creation are perfect. Even if we do not understand why something is happening in our world, we trust that Creator is perfect thus creation must be perfect as well. Once we have come to these realizations we can be at Peace with the world around us.

As we begin to embrace and embody Peace, our vibration rises. Our view of the world changes. And we begin to affect those people whom we come in contact with in a positive way. The sense of Peace that we feel begins to expand outward to our families, communities and eventually encompasses the entire earth.

In the 9 Fires of Truth, we talk about creating Peace Wheels and activating the Global Peace Matrix. This Matrix is an energetic envelope that encircles the planet. Imagine a grid of crisscrossing lines similar to a wire fence that encircles the planet and creates an energy field that permeates all aspects of this reality. This Matrix is in place and always has been. It is no longer pristine. It has been shrouded in darkness for far too long. This occurred because of our choices here on Earth to live in fear, anger, judgment and separation. As we change our view of reality and begin to awaken to the frequencies of Peace, Love and Joy, the shroud begins to dissolve and the light can once again shines through. As more light shines through, the vibration rises on the planet. As this happens, all lower frequencies are transmuted into a higher vibration. The result is the manifestation of a world that is based on Universal Truths - a world of Peace, Love, Joy and Harmony.

What is your definition of Peace?

How can we bring Peace into our lives and create a world where it is common place?

I would love to hear from you! So please take a few minutes and email me to let me know your thoughts on Peace.

Til then;

Thank you and have a wonderful day filled with Peace, Love and Joy.
Raven

In the next newsletter Raven will begin introducing you to the 9 Qualities of Inner Peace as presented in the 9 Fires of Truth using excerpts from his upcoming book. Each month he will focus on one of the Qualities of Peace.

SPIRIT OF NATURE PRODUCT AND SERVICE UPDATE

This month our newsletter subscribers are receiving a 20% savings on the Freedom Flight.

"Thank you soooo much for the personal essence (custom blend). This is a very challenging time in my life and I seem to be sailing through it. My friends and family are amazed that I am so calm, serene and knowing that everything is not only OK, but in fact exactly where I need to be right now. I believe the essence has helped me turn troubled waters into calming waves. Thanks again!"
- Rebecca, Arizona

New Translator on the Website

People from over 80 countries are reading these words along with you. It is sometimes difficult reading for those from non-English speaking countries. I applaud them for doing it. I have great news for our foreign readers. I've added a translator to the website. It isn't on all the pages yet, but it will be soon. It was difficult finding a good one. On most of them when you type in the word Spirit and ask it to translate into Spanish, they come back with the word Alcohol as the translation for the word Spirit. Although we find that kind of funny, it is certainly not how we want the website to read. It should be Espiritu. Anyway, I finally found a couple of translators that do it properly. The website, and this newsletter, can now be read in French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. I ask my many Dutch readers to be patient. I'm still working on that one.

I've also added to the home page of each of our sites a little image at the bottom of the left hand column that contains the current moon phase. It included today's date and a picture of the moon in its current phase.

How to access the translator and the moon phases. If you go to the Spirit of Nature home page you will probably get a little shield at the top that says it is blocking something that might access your computer. You have to right click and say "allow blocked." (The only reason for the shield is that the translator, and the new moon phase information, are done by 3rd parties - which means other websites - and that makes Internet Explorer nervous.) Then scroll down the left hand column until you see the yellow translator box. Use the down arrow to choose the language you desire, and press go. Voila, the whole page will be translated into that language. The moon phase is further down in the same column.

Gift Giving

Blessing others with gifts feels so wonderful. I just love to surprise family and friends with something unexpected. With the holiday's coming up, I thought I'd offer a few suggestions. I know it is a bit early, but if you are like me and have relatives living in another country, you have to get the stuff shipped well in advance.

For those you deeply care about and want to assist in attaining more joy - a private energy session, a custom blend, my ebook Freeway to Freedom, or all 3. Visit Dolphin Empowerment Consulting with Debbie "Takara" Shelor to find out more.
For jewelry lovers or anyone who gets drained by negative energy, there is nothing better on the planet than the beautiful BioElectric Shield that not only looks fabulous, but can really help them.
For book lovers, I have listed the books in the Spirit of Nature Bookstore that we have truly enjoyed and feel can make a positive difference in a person's life. There is a little something for everyone.

WHITE EAGLE WOMAN

The image in this newsletter is called "White Eagle Woman" by Valerie Chelonis.

From Valerie:

Here "White Eagle Woman carried Beauty in her rainbow wings to the Earth, and seeded her with Life. She brought Beauty and Spirit to earth.

She brought a way of life, of living in beauty with oneself and all life, the creature beings, the flowers, the winds, the sky and the stars.

She holds the web of creation and brought it into form from within her being, through the union and balance of Love (Heart Presence) and Spirit (Light Presence).

She holds the pattern, the integrity of the matrix, and the codes of life.

Such was the Beauty Way created. The Walk in Beauty Way envisioned for Earth.

Beauty is the manifestation of love and sacredness, and is contained within the essence of All.

Love is the energy of Spirit and Heart, which creates Beauty out of Purity and Intent.

This is the original gift of Beauty from She Who Walks With Heart.

White Eagle Woman is very passionate in her intention to create Beauty and in her desire to nourish and sustain Life. As an Archetype, and a Creator Being, her vision for Earth is a sacred garden where all life blooms and flourishes."

Valerie Chelonis

(To find out about Sacred Art by Valerie Chelonis, visit http://www.spiritofnature.org/documents/ValerieChelonisSacredArt.pdf

Thank you Valerie for providing this beautiful image.

Blessings to your journey,
Debbie

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