Summer 2010
Artist Featured On the Cover: Paul Heussenstamm
As a renowned teacher and fourth generation artist, Paul Heussenstamm has been sharing his unique gift of helping people discover their Soul through his paintings and Art As A Spiritual Path workshops worldwide. Paul has created over 800 unique and spiritual paintings while passionately sharing his artistic capacity to explore and create Sacred Art from many traditions such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity. Paul gladly accepts commissions and offers the finest quality Giclee prints
on canvas that he creates in his studio.
View the complete collect of Paul’s works on www.mandalas.com
Astrology Forecast
May/June/July of 2010
by Tom Lescher, Astrologist
Spring has sprung and summer is upon us! It is challenging to write a forecast for three months when there are pages to be written for 1-4 weeks these days! There are so many planetary aspects occurring over the course of May, June and July that I could use up this entire space just listing them. These powerful aspects and rare alignments symbolize, reflect, and indicate major shifts on all levels of our experience.
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Thoughts and Ponderings
The Shift, From Our Heads To Our Hearts
by Barbara Williams
For many of us, the times we are living through are not easy. I’ve certainly had to adjust and change as the world around me has demanded and yet, I’m really excited about being alive to witness the changes we are experiencing. We seem to be leaving a time of “me” and entering a time of “we.” Living more from our emotional brains than from our rational brains. Or, put another way, following where we are heart-led more and more, and less and less from self will.
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Nature's Bounty
Summer Roses
by Kami McBride
Roses have a very long history of culinary, medicinal and magical use. Like many of our helpful plant friends, they are growing all around and we have forgotten that they are there for us. Any rose petal can be used as long as it is growing in a non-polluted area and not sprayed with chemicals. Yes, the pink, purple, yellow, gold, white and orange petals from your rose bushes are medicinal. Use any rose petal as long as it has not been sprayed. Commercially bought roses are usually grown with lots of pesticides. Look for roses at the farmers market or grow your own organic roses.
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Conscious Relationship
A Roadmap to Conscious Relationship
by Allan Hardman
All conscious relationship begins with ourselves. To share the truth of how we feel, without attachment to the outcome of a relationship, is one of my many definitions of conscious relationship — but we must be connected to our feelings in a very intimate way to be able to share them. It all begins with ourselves. In fact, most of the emotional processes we go through are nobody’s business but our own. We are often stimulated into an emotional reaction by people we are in relationship with—but did they really do that to us? There is a process we go through between an event out there in the world and an emotional reaction in our bodies.
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Peaceful Parenting
Who Are You, My Child? (Part One of Two)
by Amy Edwards
As human beings, our brains are wired to compare. Research has shown that the developing brain of an infant builds its knowledge base by taking in information, comparing it to what it already knows, and thus determining how/where to store it. As adults, we continue to employ this technique in our dealings with other people. This is the source of our judgments of others. When somebody says or does something, we compare it to what WE would say or do, and this helps us determine our affinity (or lack thereof) for that person. The people we call our friends, or the people we admire, are usually people who we have determined to be more like us, or more like we hope/want to be. We applaud when somebody does or says something that we agree with. And we are incredulous when they do something we would never dream of doing.
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"Say 'Yes!' Simply meet each experience of life inside and out, body, feelings and mind,
with all the love and acceptance you can muster."
- Cheri Huber
