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Newsletter Fall 2005

  Dear Friends,

Murmurings from Sheila

Greetings dear ones,

I have been deeply engaged in life these past six months, more inward
than outward. Enough so that folks have called to see if I'd dropped them
from my e-mail list. Absolutely not. You are all as important to me as
ever, perhaps more so. I just needed the journey inward. It has been a
rich time for me. I feel nurtured and cherished and have more than ever
to give and share with you.

For a year or more I have been spending time with the concept of self-
healing. As one who facilitates healing for others I want to be clear that
I am doing all that I can do, being all that I am when I enter into the
healing equation with another. And, what I know is that I am not the
only factor in that equation. How does the person lying on the table in
the position of receiving affect their own healing? How can I best support
them in being open and receptive to that healing? What are the factors
that predispose one person to healing while another's illness remains?

With these questions in my energy small wonder I got sick! Who better
to practice on but myself? Of course I didn't recognise that right away!
First I had to go through my own process. "What? Lupus again? I
haven't had a flare up in 4 years. I thought I was over that." And then
the little niggles reflected by those around me. "Hmmm, and she's a
'healer', why is SHE sick?" That's always fun.

So, all that aside I began to ask for assistance on all levels. A number
of lovely and gifted friends in various healing modalities supported me
with sessions. I asked for guidance and support from all of those
energies and beings who love and support me, and I asked EVERY day.
And, I asked the Universe to support me financially while I was in process
of healing. And it did, and they did. I have a clear belief that I will
always receive what I need on every level, that synchronicities will point
the way for me, that I am held gently and with great love by the
Universe.

I had a dream one night. I was in Turkey with Declan Dunn (from an old
PAX program called "Mysterious Ways". We were in a bazaar in Turkey
when Declan paused, asked me to wait and ducked through a beaded
curtain. When he came back he was holding a book out to me, present-
ing it to me as if it were precious. I took it from him, of course. As I
held it I saw there was no title. "Declan, what is the name of this book?"
But I awoke not knowing.

Two days later I stopped in to visit 4 friends in their place of business.
One of them was excited to share with me about Adam Dreamhealer.
She had heard him on 'Coast to Coast'. I went on his website and
ordered his two books, written when he was 16 and 17 respectively.
This amazing young man is only 18 now and his 3rd book is at the
publisher.

The books soon came and I realized the second book was the book
I was given in my dream......all about self-healing. The visualization
that Adam teaches is much like what I used to do in my healing work.
Oh..... that still has a place for me and I had set it aside. I asked then
of all who care for me, to be shown all that fits for me to know about
healing and self-healing so I could know how to heal myself and
support others in their healing to the best of my ability. The flood
gates opened for me.

I'm being shown how every modality I've learned and practiced has
a place in my own self-healing and supports the healing of others.
Books I open, movies I watch, nature around me, people I meet of
speak with all offer me a piece of the peace and healing within me.
Synchronicities are everywhere. I feel wealthy beyond measure.

In the past 20 years I've witnessed 100's of healings with Reiki...
each one a miracle. I've just been doing the Reconnective work
for 4 years, but I've certainly witnessed some dramatic healings
with that as well.

Let me tell you of my own healing. As co-sponsor for Dr. Pearl's
Portland workshops I had every intention of being on the floor
as a teaching assistant during his seminars. When he came to
town I was still in great pain from the Lupus flare-up in my hips.

I was determined and didn't mention to Eric that I was in pain.
If I went through 2 weeks on pure grit, so be it. The Friday
evening of the first seminar every step was painful for me.
Early (4:00 AM) Saturday morning I was awakened by an intense
pain in one knee. It was gone in 3 minutes.

Saturday the pain in my hips was still there, but less intense.
Early Sunday (4:00 AM) morning I was awakened again by an
intense pain in one knee. Again, it was gone in 3 minutes.
When I got up at 6:00 Sunday morning the pain in my hips
was completely gone. The flare up was over, my hip pain
was gone! My own little miracle had occurred as I slept. At no
time had I been on the table receiving during that weekend.
Instead, I was hard at work supporting others learning the work.
Yet, I was healed. Of course I had to write Eric Pearl and tell him
my story. Hey! it was a good story.

So, I am learning that the healing happens when the recipient is
ready to receive it.....no matter what they happen to be doing at
the time.

I've never felt that guilt was a pre-requisite of healing, as in the
"New Age" concept that we create our own reality. This is true in
so many ways. However, when New Ager's tsk tsk the person who
is sick and let them know that they have 'created their own reality'
I don't find that helpful or condusive to healing.

I love the tenant of Reiki that has us offer Reiki for the highest
good of the person involved, or in the case of distance Reiki,
offer this light, love and energy for the highest good of all. How
can we know with our myopic perspective what the highest good is
for ourselves? much less anyone else? or, how about the world?

To me this simple offer for the highest good leaves that decision
to Higher Power, a much greater intelligence than my own.

Eric Pearl's teachings in his Reconnective Healing seminars are very
aligned, that is why this work fits so well for me.

Each day I'm learning more about how healing happens within us.
Perhaps there will be a book someday? Who knows?

Meantime, come, lie on my table and we'll learn about healing
together. I promise to bring all I can to the equation and to
hold you in a space of great love in my heart.

I send many blessings to you,

Sheila

Letter from a Katrina survivor:

A friend of a friend, who was missing in New Orleans has finally surfaced
and sent his friends this note...I thought it should be shared.....much

love...

Hello friends,

My famiy evacuated prior to the hurricane and is safe, Alex, my son,
and I stayed to care for pets that owners could not or would not evacuate
with them. The conditions have been primitive and challenging,
then they turned very dangerous.

Alex and I stayed and cared for the animals (we could handle no
water, electricity, & water in the steamy summer heat) until we felt
our lives were at risk, and we were able to escape the city out the
back door as security in the Big Easy deteriorated. Physically we
are both in excellent shape as I prepared for the worst before the
arrival of Katrina.

As far as emotionally, I have RARELY felt so peaceful,
serene, and in a place of unconditional love since the hurricane
started bearing down on the city. A surreal sense of calm, oneness,
and caring has overwhelmed me since this challenge has arrived in
my small microcosm of the universe. I realize that this is a sign for
me that I need to look at. My heart feels more open than it ever has!

This challenge is happening for a reason, and even though it may not
be apparent at this point to most the world, I KNOW that the lessons
that we are to learn from this very low vibration that has been and is
continuing to be CREATED by OUR collective consciousness will help our
evolution on this planet.

Don't only meditate and pray for peace in my home in
New Orleans, but BE peace and love at every moment with everyone
you encounter, be thankful for all of our blessings...especially the
simple ones we take for granted. This is one way we can raise our
vibration and that of our planet, and the ripple effects will reach New
Orleans and the gulf coast.

If I can be in this placeof acceptance, love, and peace after losing
my home, my businesses, and and a city that I love so dearly, so can
everyone else. More than ever, this is what needed onour planet. Total
acceptance. And the knowing that we have a responsability to change
what doesn't work anymore, to change the things that were in place that
WE created that led to the currunt unrest in New Orleans, long after
Katrina was gone.

To me, THIS is the real issue we should be addressing. If we had not
created a situation where almost one fourth of my city's residents live
BELOW the poverty level, I know that the instability in the city would
not exist in the aftermath of a storm that only lasted a matter of hours.
Until mankind addresses this deeper core issue, and until we correct
this inequity worldwide, there will be many more "cries for help",
however unacceptable, by the lower socio-economic groups of souls that
WE have created, much like we are now seeing in New Orleans. I feel
their pain, their fear, their feelings of loss and despair, and I understand
their unconscious actions for basic survival. They are not crying out for
just supplies, they are crying out for love and acceptance from mankind.

How shall we respond?

This is a another opportunity for mankind to demonstrate and express

WHO WE REALLY ARE and to change what WE have created on this planet.
I am excited about this opportunity to accept what is, embrace it, and
decide WHO AM I IN RELATION TO THIS?
Life is full of challenges, and the universe will never fail to give us
opportunities to evolve. This is mine and I am blessed to have this
spiritual slap on the side of my head. I will make the most of this
opportunity. I hope that anyone who has been affected by the ongoing
events in my beloved hometown does the same. The consciousness of our
planet needs the compassionate, heartfelt love and light from all souls
touched by the ongoing events.

Please stop for 5 minutes RIGHT NOW and close your
eyes, breathe deeply, and passionately envision our leaders
making choices and decisions that will be for the highest good for
all involved on the gulf coast. We can let go and let God empower
our leaders to hasten a rapid recovery of this devastated area and
pray for a major healing. Nothing is more important at THIS moment 
RIGHT NOW.

Please forward this letter to as many people as you
can, as time is critical !

Take this challenge and use it to help us remember
that we are all connected on a soul level, and that love, compassion,
and understanding are the common threads that make human "kind".

                       Namaste' !

                                         Scott

forwarded with love by Sheila

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