The Beacons of Light ~ Re-minders from Home
 

July 15 2010

~ The Act of Faith ~
God Visits the Virtual Light Broadcast

The Beacons of Light Re-minders from Home are presented Live on the internet, transcribed and posted here on the 15th of each month. The next Lightworker VirtualLight Broadcast will be on

Sat August 28, 2010
11:am US Pacific Time

From Steve:

This month the group gave us a view of ourselves from their perspective on the issue of faith.  They say we have used faith and belief in general in many ways in our past, including control, deception and avoidance.  But no matter how it has been used, Faith has always been a mirror for our own power.  

It’s the reason we have so many religions on Earth. A person can search for an answer all their life and then one day someone convinces them that they hold the answer if they will just have faith. Frustrated to the point of breaking, they give in and say “OK I give up. . . I’ll have faith. I Believe!” Then they have choices: They can either really let go of it or try to have ‘selective faith’ where they let go of it. . . sort of. In all of these states faith is a direct reflection of that person’s personal powers of creation. The creations come from the person creating the space for it to happen by having faith.

Here is an interesting pattern that is often seen. Let’s say that a person really does let go and finds serenity and ease by placing their faith in something. Later they often spend much of their lives attempting to repeat that same success by seeking out other things to put their faith into. Sometimes it was a good reflection and led to a better ‘steady’ life style. Other times it was in disharmony and may have been difficult. Either way it is a direct mirror for you to use as you wish.

As human beings, we have a veil that effectively keeps us from remembering who we really are. It’s the only way such a game could be played. Because of that blind spot we are always looking for something to reflect our power. Now the question becomes: What is the best place where we can use faith in a positive way?

Inside this channel the group told a very quick story to answer that question. They said to imagine that you were there in the studio of the VirtualLight Broadcast the day of this channel, all talking and having fun. Just then god walked down the stairs and into the room. Everyone fell silent as he casually announced he was there to check in at this important time in the history of humanity just to see if we needed anything for this next leg of our journey. See what he has to say in the message below.

Big hugs

 

In anticipation of National Dance Day, here are some sensible tips to dancing your way from here to Sunday and beyond...


10 Best Ways to Protect Your Joints
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Hey there, Dancers! I know you knew we would have to talk about joints sooner or later. They are the very strands that hold a dancer together and without them intact, there will be no “dancer”. While your young or as soon as you can, start to take care of your joints so you can express freedom through your body for many, many moons to come :0) . Here are 10 tips to start considering;

1. Maintain your ideal body weight. The more you weigh, the more stress you are putting on your joints, especially your hips, knees, back and feet.

2. Move your body. STRETCH your body, Exercise protects joints by strengthening the muscles around them. Strong muscles keep your joints from rubbing against one another, wearing down cartilage. We can help you get started on an exercise program that works for you. See Meredith for details.

3. Stand up straight. Good posture protects the joints in your neck, back, hips and knees.

4. Use the big joints. When lifting or carrying, use largest and strongest joints and muscles. This will help you avoid injury and strain on your smaller joints.

5. Pace yourself. Alternate periods of heavy activity with periods of rest. Repetitive stress on joints for long periods of time can accelerate the wear and tear that causes OA.

6. Listen to your body. If you are in pain, don’t ignore it. Pain after activity or exercise can be an indication that you have overstressed your joints.

7. Don’t be static. Changing positions regularly will decrease the stiffness in your muscles and joints.

8. Forget the weekend warrior. Don’t engage in activities your body for which your body isn’t prepared. Start new activities slowly and safely until you know how your body will react to them. This will reduce the chance of injury.

9. Regularly take glucosamine sulfate. It’s a great vitamin that supports joint health. Make sure to take it regularly when doing extra physical exersize.

10. Learn technique in any form of new movement before getting carried away. For example, when bending down, do not allow your knees to go over your toes, instead put your weight in your heels and sit back to best support the joint. Take your time, dancers!!

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Look Your Age—Or Younger!

It pretty much goes without saying that smoking cigarettes and frying your skin in the sun make you older, so kudos for quitting and slathering on the sunscreen religiously. But if you're trying to turn back the clock—or at least slow it down a little—don't overlook these other habits that may be sabotaging your efforts.

9 "Harmless" Habits That Age You

Giggling is my favorite tip in the "12 Little Instant Health Boosts" and a valuable tool when you can find humor to defuse a stressful situation. To counter the effects of your "harmless" habits, here are some more quick and amazingly easy ways to boost well-being:

90-Second Health Boosts

This was really sad news to hear about this horrible incident in a nearby town, my heart goes out to Norma Lopez's family...

Police say SoCal body too decomposed to identify

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A body discovered near the site where a 17-year-old Southern California girl disappeared was too decomposed to quickly identify, and authorities could use dental and DNA records to learn the person's name, authorities said.

An autopsy was scheduled Wednesday on the body found about two miles from the spot where Norma Lopez disappeared on her way home from a summer school class last week, said Sgt. Joseph Borja, a spokesman for the Riverside County sheriff.

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Police say SoCal body too decomposed to identify

Energy Share for Sunday
July 18, 2010

Applying the Law of Giving

(1) Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others.

(2) Today, I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of nature: sunlight and the sound of birds singing, or spring showers or the first snow of winter. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it be in the form of a material gift, money, a compliment or prayer.

(3) I will make a commitment to keep wealth circulating in my life by giving and receiving life's most precious gifts: the gifts of caring, affection, appreciation, and love. Each time I meet someone, I will silently wish them happiness, joy, and laughter.

Deepak Chopra, "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success"

Today, I share with you a simple thought of giving, to bless you with all the good things in life. In doing so, this thought gives you the power of transformation just as I am transformed by the power of receiving the same blessing from you. With intentional transformative thought, we have the power to create unconditional joy, love, and abundance for ourselves and others.

Enjoy the previous posts on healing dance and Anna Halprin, a woman who inspired me during my days as a young dance student at the University of Hawai'i. Be ready to celebrate National Dance Day on the 31st and heal yourself with dance, imagery and song! Checkout Dizzy Feet Foundation for more.

Remember to be present in every moment and live the passionate life you intend it to be.

Aloha pumehana (with blessings, love and affection)!

Lydia


1. Lydia Smith-Lenardson, Moreno Valley, California, USA
2. Amy Manuel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
3. Andy Cooper, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
4. Annette Maxwell Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
5. Austin Ndego, Lagos, Nigeria
6. Brian Yeates, Dublin, Ireland
7. Carol Gent, Lancashire, England, UK
8. Denise Matthews, Nottinghamshire, UK
9. Donna Pfeiffer, Venice, Florida, USA
10. Dunni Olasehan, Lagos, Nigeria
11. Egon Russell, Adelaide, Alabama, USA
12. Eileen To, Middlesex, Alabama, UK
13. Eve Hale, Hampshire, England, UK
14. Grant Luckey, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
15. Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, San Diego, California, USA
16. Gurjinder Strom, Miami, Florida, USA
17. Heidi Fruhling, Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA
18. Hillary Bisaillon, Yorktown, Virginia, USA
19. Janet Evans, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA
20. Janet Henningsen, Indialantic, Florida, USA
21. Janet Kinge, Basingstoke, UK
22. Joan Anderson, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
23. Joseph Bennett, Ventura, California, USA
24. Judy Oliver, Silver Spring, MD, USA
25. Karen Saldanha, Corona, California, USA
26. Karen Sheppard, St. John's, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
27. Kim Lerman, North Highlands, California, USA
28. Kim McCluskey, Tucson, Arizona, USA
29. Kyle James, Bel Air, Maryland, USA
30. Lena Goon, Alberta, Canada
31. Linda Cromer, The Villages, Florida, USA
32. Linda Prucha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
33. Lynda Truthseekir, Los Angeles, California
34. Lynn Wilson, Manchester, England, UK
35. Madhurima Bhatnagar, Fremont, California, USA
36. Maree Rogers, Hastings, Westernport Bay, Australia
37. Margaret McGuire, Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
38. Mari Hayama, Berkeley, California, USA
39. Mark Woit, Nuermberg, Bavaria
40. Matthew Leonard, Lodi, New Jersey, USA
41. Meelah Rasheed, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
42. Mirjam Kik, Oude Tonge, The Netherlands
43. Moira Congreve, England, UK
44. Monica Hernandez Estrada, Corona, California, USA
45. Natasha Adair, Olney Springs, Colorado, USA
46. Nathan Norton, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, Australia
47. Nieema and Jan Thasing, Elkton, South Dakota, USA
48. Pamela Clements, Westminster, Colorado, USA
49. Patricia Blundon, Pembroke,Ontario
50. Pauline Leung, England, UK
51. Rebecca Cochran, Findlay, Ohio, USA
52. Rene Beauchemin, Alabama, Tomono, Canada
53. Rev. Patricia Lusher, Berlin, Vermont, USA
54. Rosemary Barton, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
55. Sandy Kolman, Belleville, Illinois, USA
56. Sheryl Morris, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
57. Silvia Weisz, Melbourne, Australia
58. Sister Mary Mebane, Santa Maria, California, USA
59. Steve and Karen Edwards, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England
60. Theresa Johnson, Salisbury, Maryland, USA
61. Tiffany Wardle Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
62. Velanthas, Manila, Philippines
63. Venkataramadas Vivekanand, Chennai, India
64. Vera Murrell, Friendsville, Tennessee, USA
65. Veronica Hansen, Sarina, Queensland, Australia
66. Violet Moreau, Pembroke,Ontario
67. Y.Nowshad, Kollam Kerala,India
68. Zachary Buchholz, Chicago, IL, USA

Diware dance to be unveiled to the nation

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE

STAFF WRITER

http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=7&aid=3623&dir=2010/July/Thursday15

Diware. Di...What? That is a dance style of the Hambukushu people that for years has been confined to the northern parts of Botswana around Kasane, Etsha, Gumara, Maun, to name a few.

For the first time many Batswana and many viewers of Btv across Africa would be privileged to enjoy this unique Botswana dance heritage by Hambukushu dance groups from Parakarungu, Satau, and Shakawe.

According to one of the dance coaches of this dance style in Shakawe, Matseo Kanyoka, Diware, whose group, Mushamba Wa Kasi is one of the three to be participating at the SSKB on Sunday, says Diware dance is actually a traditional Hambukushu healing ritual. She says the ritual is still alive today in places like Maun, Gumare, Etsha, Kasane, where traditional healers use song and dance to revive a patient.

She tells Showbiz that traditionally the Hambukushu would consult the healer, then the song and dance would start as woman, dressed in long skirts, and shawls on their shoulders, cap hands and sing Tjimbukushu healing songs for the medicine-man. The climax of the ceremony is when the medicine man successfully cast away the sickness, reviving the patient into a healthy, vibrant person, who immediately joins the medicine man with some energetic dance moves in celebration of the healing.

Kanyoka says unlike other dance styles, the Diware performance is built around the medicine man and the patient, who perform the dances while the women sing Tjimbukushu songs and clap hands.  She says the Diware dance differs in many ways with the dance for the now popular Basarwa healing songs, Uwee, which are part of the Tsutsube dance style, which will also feature on Sunday.

"There are a lot of differences between us and the Basarwa or Tsutsube healing dances. As you will see, in our culture the singers wear formal clothes, as they clap and sing, while the patient and the doctor only wear special regalia", she explains, adding that the other interesting part of the dance is the healing theatrics performed by the medicine man.

This will not be the first time that a new dance move is unveiled to many Batswana, thanks to the Heritage month festivities. Last year Sebirwa dance was televised to multitudes of Batswana and southern African audiences for the first time, as the reed blowers from the Eastern side of Botswana showcased a dance style not known before in many parts of the country. It was not just the graceful orchestration of their flutes like instruments, but the dance style and the dance wear were something many local traditional music followers were seeing for the very first time, simply because the Sebirwa dance had for decades been confined to

certain parts of Bobirwa, unlike other traditional dance forms like Phathisi, Tsutsube, Setapa, Hosanna and others.

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New dance class helps fight chronic pain

Denise Dador

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- People who suffer from daily, excruciating pain from an injury or chronic illness often feel trapped in their own bodies. Now a new dance class is helping many people work through the pain.

No matter what your dance skill level is a new class is designed to help your body overcome the gnawing sensation of chronic pain.

Loolwa Khazzoom, the founder of Dancing with Pain, experienced the healing powers of dance first hand. Thirteen years ago a head on car crash left her with severe back pain.

"I went from bad to worse in the medical system," said Khazzoom. "I could barely walk and was severely depressed."

She could only move her arms, but she visualized herself dancing in her mind. It worked. She decided to combine meditation, music and movement therapy with visual guided imagery.

"Athletes use this a lot. They will visualize going through their routine and doing it perfectly before they actually execute it," said Khazzoom.

A University of Chicago study reveals golfers who visualize their swings activate the same parts of their brain that they use when they actually do it. The conclusion: we are what we think.

Some experts believe the brain can be reprogrammed to break the cycle of pain.

Lupus patient Jennie Floyd also has degenerative disc disease. At her first class she already felt a difference.

"There were movements today that I haven't been able to do in years that I was able to do," said Floyd.

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Dancing with Pain is a trademarked method. Teachers claim that it is 96 percent effective in reducing or eliminating pain. The next step is to document how well this therapy works through clinical studies.

Khazzoom and her collaborators are applying for grants from the National Institutes of Health. In the meantime, her goal is to empower pain patients with the self healing tool of dance.

"If you practice every day you're going to begin to experience pleasure instead of pain," said Khazzoom.

She adds that many of her students say her Dancing with Pain program also helps them deal with emotional pain like depression. The classes cost $15.

(Copyright ©2010 KABC-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)

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Dance pioneer Anna Halprin, nearing 90, still breaks barriers

By MOLLY GLENTZER Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle

When Anna Halprin says, "Enter your body through your hand," what looks like an ecstatic experience happens: her students reach forward, open-palmed, and awe washes over their faces. It's one of many revelatory scenes in Breath Made Visible, Ruedi Gerber's poetic documentary about a dance legend who's spent more than 70 years breaking boundaries — and is still spry enough to spring a few more surprises.

Halprin's name may be familiar, but her work - until now - has been little known outside the performance and healing arts worlds. Although she danced in New York in the 1930s, she left that scene long before some of her famous students — including iconic choreographers Tricia Brown, Meredith Monk and Yvonne Rainer — discovered her San Francisco Dancer's Workshop and rocked the art world with their postmodern concepts.

"I danced for the fun of it. I danced to rebel. I danced with my children. I danced for social justice," Halprin says in the film. "We broke as many barriers as we possibly could."

Her work sounds radical but embraces concepts far more ancient than "traditional" dance, based on the ritualistic urge to move. It evolved in the rarefied air of Marin County, California, on a floating deck designed by her husband, the landscape architect Lawrence (Larry) Halprin, who died in October 2009.

Breath Made Visible comes to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, next weekend. July 11 is Halprin's 90th birthday, but forget whatever notions that suggests: In a phone interview, she spoke with extreme energy and clarity. Our discussion is condensed here.

Q: How has the film impacted you?

A: It's as if I've suddenly been discovered, which is sort of an odd experience. I'm not even sure how to react to it. I'm hoping it will open up new possibilities for ways in which dance can apply to our life. I hope that will be the legacy I leave behind: how there is such a thing as life-art process, and dance is not just conceptual art for a few classically trained, conventional people. If the movie opens up that possibility, that'll be very satisfying to me.

Q: How will you celebrate your birthday?

A: That's a good question. There've been a lot of little events going on, and the family is going to get together. I'm now a great-grandmother. I'll probably celebrate it at the Sea Ranch, a very special place that my husband designed.

Q: Your relationship with your husband was so special.

A: He was an amazing man. We were married 70 years, and we collaborated all that time together on various projects. It was really hard to separate our work. I think the most important thing I learned from him is that in dance, there's a tendency for the dancer to become an object in space, because our bodies are our instruments. But you're really just part of your environment.

The moment I stepped onto that dance deck that he made - which is not a rectangle - I had to ask myself, where is center? And I realized center is anywhere you go.

Q: Did you say "I need a deck," or did you say, "I need a space," and he came up with a deck?

A: That's interesting because when I had my two girls, I kept saying, I don't want to have to go to a studio and leave them behind. We have a very beautiful site here; we have five acres of wooded area. So he said, "I'll make you a deck." Because we couldn't afford an indoor studio. It just floats in that space and meanders around the trees. Then about three years later, we built a bridge leading to an indoor studio.

Q: What was your most recent performance?

A: In Larry's site at Stern Grove (a San Francisco park), I did a piece called Spirit of Place. We gave three performances; and it didn't rain before or after- just during the performances. I thought, my god, that is such a magical moment. I did it for Larry because he was slowly becoming more ill with dementia, and I knew I had to do something fast. It was the last piece he saw.

Q: How has your outlook about mortality evolved? When you were much younger and had cancer, you could have died - but you fought it.

A: That's a hard one to answer. I'm still teaching. I'm still thinking, what's the next dance going to be? But family is my main focus now. I want to resolve whatever feels unresolved, so there's as few regrets as possible and so that we can really enjoy the love we feel for one another.

Q: Your movement style is spry and doesn't look controlled yet you don't ever lose your balance. And your hands are amazing.

A: When I was studying dance, the traditional way was, you studied modern dance, for example, with a modern dancer who was very dynamic - like Martha Graham. So you would learn her way of moving. And that eventually felt wrong to me. I'm not Martha Graham. I don't have her body; I don't have her long, silky hair. So why am I spending all my time learning to move like Martha Graham? It becomes such a rigid style it's no different than ballet. You have bare feet and work differently with the spine, but the philosophy is the same.

When I came out here to live it gave me an opportunity to re-evaluate: So what is movement? It's basic to all human bodies. I did human dissection for a year just to understand how the body works. My movement approach evolved out of anatomy and kinesiology. Even to this day, I'll talk about flexion of the spine or extension or hyper-extension or rotation - I even use anatomical words so I can be absolutely free of imposing my way of moving on other peoples' bodies.

Q: Your mid-career work looks hard-core '60s, so uninhibited.

A: In New York, they used to call me the touchy-feely dancer from California. Then when we did Parades and Changes (in which dancers disrobe and move with huge swaths of brown paper to Petula Clark's song Downtown), that just blew their minds. It was so different than what they were doing, but introducing total theater. We talked; we sang. We used every aspect of the human being. And it really changed the world for them.

Q: I love Lawrence's squiggly portrait of you on the home page of your website. That's a hurricane in the center. Do you consider yourself a storm force?

A: People thought I was crazy, putting that on the website. But that's absolutely my life.

Energy Share for Sunday

July 4, 2010

All risk risks rejection.
The sting of criticism can create a spiral of shame.
Bitten by shame, it is easy to become embittered,
to shrink back from life and slide toward despair.

I do not allow myself this dangerous luxury.
Faced with hostility I turn within for spiritual comfort
reminding myself I am a child of the Universe
worthy of love, care, and respect.

Aware of my vulnerability, I treat myself gently with the same care
I would extend to an injured friend.
My dignity is grounded in my spiritual identity.
I hold my worth in the face of hostility
I am unshaken by the sting of personal assault.
I allow my heart to be a fortress.
My spirit is like the face of a mountain proud and bright in the sun.

Today, I stand firm in my own worthiness.
My dignity is solid and enduring.
My faith is the rock on which I build my life.
I dare to risk and I risk my daring.
I am large enough to survive my losses and enjoy my gains.

Transitions: Prayers & Declarations for a Changing Life
by Julia Cameron

Today, I share with you the boost to give you strength of heart and courage to go forward in life in spite of uncertainty, scarcity, and conflict.  To help us remember that we are more than the sum of our parts, more than the temporary physical reality of our present circumstances.  That we can dream and bring into existence a time and place of meaning and purpose.  With the fine line of life and death even closer than ever, now is the time to live your choice.  Will that be to live in fear knowing that or will it be to live each day as if it were your last?

I welcome and embrace the energy boost from you so that I may do the same and gratefully acknowledge your part in the giving and receiving of heartfelt energy. Thank you for all you do as healers, teachers and friends.

Happy Independence Day for all our stateside friends and family!  I'm sure it's been wellspent...trips to the beach, barbeque, fireworks...all those things we enjoy that bring us together for a holiday celebrating the birth of this country and honoring the soldiers that fought to claim its independence. Enjoy the previous posts, my apologies with the delay of the share message brought on by technical difficulties.

Let us remember to be present in every moment and live the passionate life you intend it to be.

Aloha pumehana (with blessings, love and affection)!

Lydia

1. Lydia Smith-Lenardson, Moreno Valley, California, USA

2. Amy Manuel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

3. Andy Cooper, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

4. Annette Maxwell Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

5. Austin Ndego, Lagos, Nigeria

6. Brian Yeates, Dublin, Ireland

7. Carol Gent, Lancashire, England, UK

8. Denise Matthews, Nottinghamshire, UK

9. Donna Pfeiffer, Venice, Florida, USA

10. Dunni Olasehan, Lagos, Nigeria

11. Egon Russell, Adelaide, Alabama, USA

12. Eileen To, Middlesex, Alabama, UK

13. Eve Hale, Hampshire, England, UK

14. Grant Luckey, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

15. Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, San Diego, California, USA

16. Gurjinder Strom, Miami, Florida, USA

17. Heidi Fruhling, Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA

18. Hillary Bisaillon, Yorktown, Virginia, USA

19. Janet Evans, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA

20. Janet Henningsen, Indialantic, Florida, USA

21. Janet Kinge, Basingstoke, UK

22. Joan Anderson, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

23. Joseph Bennett, Ventura, California, USA

24. Judy Oliver, Silver Spring, MD, USA

25. Karen Saldanha, Corona, California, USA

26. Karen Sheppard, St. John's, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada

27. Kim Lerman, North Highlands, California, USA

28. Kim McCluskey, Tucson, Arizona, USA

29. Kyle James, Bel Air, Maryland, USA

30. Lena Goon, Alberta, Canada

31. Linda Cromer, The Villages, Florida, USA

32. Linda Prucha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

33. Lynda Truthseekir, Los Angeles, California

34. Lynn Wilson, Manchester, England, UK

35. Madhurima Bhatnagar, Fremont, California, USA

36. Maree Rogers, Hastings, Westernport Bay, Australia

37. Margaret McGuire, Cooma, New South Wales, Australia

38. Mari Hayama, Berkeley, California, USA

39. Mark Woit, Nuermberg, Bavaria

40. Matthew Leonard, Lodi, New Jersey, USA

41. Meelah Rasheed, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

42. Mirjam Kik, Oude Tonge, The Netherlands

43. Moira Congreve, England, UK

44. Monica Hernandez Estrada, Corona, California, USA

45. Natasha Adair, Olney Springs, Colorado, USA

46. Nathan Norton, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, Australia

47. Nieema and Jan Thasing, Elkton, South Dakota, USA

48. Pamela Clements, Westminster, Colorado, USA

49. Patricia Blundon, Pembroke,Ontario

50. Pauline Leung, England, UK

51. Rebecca Cochran, Findlay, Ohio, USA

52. Rene Beauchemin, Alabama, Tomono, Canada

53. Rev. Patricia Lusher, Berlin, Vermont, USA

54. Rosemary Barton, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

55. Sandy Kolman, Belleville, Illinois, USA

56. Sheryl Morris, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

57. Silvia Weisz, Melbourne, Australia

58. Sister Mary Mebane, Santa Maria, California, USA

59. Steve and Karen Edwards, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England

60. Theresa Johnson, Salisbury, Maryland, USA

61. Tiffany Wardle Croydon, Surrey, England, UK

62. Velanthas, Manila, Philippines

63. Venkataramadas Vivekanand, Chennai, India

64. Vera Murrell, Friendsville, Tennessee, USA

65. Veronica Hansen, Sarina, Queensland, Australia

66. Violet Moreau, Pembroke,Ontario

67. Y.Nowshad, Kollam Kerala,India

68. Zachary Buchholz, Chicago, IL, USA

From Steve:
This month the group changed their direction to focus on the human body and the changes that lie ahead for all of us humans.  They made mention of the sexual energy infusion that is in full swing on this planet at the moment.  You can see evidence of it in people lives everyday now.  Much of what was firm ground is starting to move in more ways than one.

One of the big points they made during this message was about the physical body.  With the physical re-wire of humanity well underway the next stage is releasing the old human templates that hold us.  As these templates first release there can be an energetic vulnerability to the physical body.  In fact, the group said during these times humans are much closer to home and it is an easy step to cross the line of life and death. 

They said that during this period on Earth many will be leaving to take a new position and that all humans were closer to death than we imagined.  I don't remember their exact words, but at one point in the channel I knew they were talking about Brittany Murphy and her spouse who both recently died with very little warning. The line between life and death is now closer to us than we imagined.  Now we have a choice:  Do we go into fear over that or do we live every day as if it’s our last?  Yet another reason for us to be on purpose.

Have a great month and spread lots of Light!

Big hugs

Sleep problems linked to weight gain in middle-age

As if simply getting older weren't hard enough, new research shows that middle-aged and older women who have trouble falling or staying asleep may pack on more pounds than their well-rested contemporaries.
A number of studies have found that sleep-deprived children and adults are more likely to be overweight than those who usually get a full night's rest. But many of those studies assessed people at one point in time, so it was hard to know which came first, the sleep problems or the excess pounds.

Sleep problems linked to weight gain in middle-age

Lack of sleep has been linked to serious conditions such as obesity and diabetes. Watch this segment to understand how you can get the rest you need to stay healthy and active.  Watch this video on tips to getting a good night's sleep:


Getting A Good Night's Sleep Health Video