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Issue 10: Patty Contenta ~ Lessons from the Dance Floor

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This month’s Heart to Heart features Patty Contenta, a professional dancer, choreographer, and creator of Sensuality Secrets.  I think you’ll enjoy her simple, practical tips on how the stay in your masculine or feminine energy, and heighten your sensuality through nonverbal communication.  This is important whether you’re single or in a relationship.

Leave me a comment below and let me know what you think!

Dare to love,

Mindie

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Patty Contenta (47:30)

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Shared Wisdom

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I went to hear Hank Wesselman speak recently on his new book, Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation, that he co-wrote with Sandra Ingerman, one of my heroes in the world of modern shamanism.

I often tell my clients, “It doesn’t matter to me what you believe in, I’m interested in what you experience.”

Wesselman clarified this idea when he talked about how “direct experience is above belief, beyond faith.  Direct experience equals personal transformation.”

He spoke about the role of the shaman as one who restores power to those who have lost it.  In some ways, this is how I approach coaching, except I don’t think of it as restoring power, so much as reminding people of their own power and offering a re-connection with what may have been forgotten:  the strength within, a source of personal power.  It’s the essence of all that is beyond your physical self, yet accessible by your physical self.

He also touched on how nature mysticism is the doorway to authentic deity mysticism.  It begins “out of doors, where the juice is,” in nature.  And it’s not like this is new.  Everyone who’s had anything to say about the evolution of consciousness “got it”… that nature is one of the truest references of that power – that life force – that energy – that flows through us.  It is our blood, and cells and aura and vibrational being that is, and emits, this stuff…

I have yet to read their book, but based on his talk, I’m looking forward to learning more from him.  It was refreshing to see the reverence for such an ancient tradition, as Wesselman, Ingerman, and their colleague Michael Harner all maintain.

Peace Across the Planet

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Sacred Shiva Lingam stones symbolize Divine Creative manifestation and only come from the Narmada River in India.  The dark yoni markings symbolize feminine energy, and the shape represents masculine energy… a perfect balance.  The stone corresponds to the heart chakra, the love energy within us.

“What these Shiva Lingam stones offer us is an invitation to join with them in Sacred Stone Acupuncture, where the stones, placed vertically on the Earth’s body, connect with the Crystalline Grid within in the planet (the core geometric pattern and flow of all of Life on Earth, and of the Earth Mother herself), and hold uninterruptedly the intent and alignment of peace for all forms of life.” ~ Peace Across the Planet

Me with Shiva Lingam stone at ChocolaTree in Sedona, AZ

“I am here.

Where are you?

What inspiration captures your intent?

Which direction stores your roots?

I am Shiva Lingam.

Who are you?

What thoughts weave your attention?

Which dreams grasp your lifetimes?

I am Crystalline Grid Keeper and Recorder.

What are you?

What manifestations spring from your hands and feet?

What spirit do you follow when you delight or fear?

I listen for your answers,

for your ways,

for your fears,

for your kindness.

Bring them all to my body and heart

for I judge none of them ever.

Wherever Whomever Whatever

you be,

you are,

I match all of you with deepest honorings.

I know well that courage brings you next to me now

because courage is what brings you to the Earth Mother

in this brave and haunted season–

this previously untouched, unimagined growth,

transformation,

love-beyond-words, ways, fears, kindness.

All stands freely seen in my open and opening eyes

for that is the courage that I bring,

that stands me here upon the Earth Mother

that roots me in this place

in this ritual

with you.

Meet me

with all that you are

with all that you do.

Let us hug all the gifted challenges to our hearts

here and now

so that all that you are,

all that you do,

bravely becomes

Peace.”

Recorded from Arizona Shiva Lingams Listening March 2009

Peace Across the Planet

Creating Order

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In The Success Principles (which I highly recommend) Jack Canfield mentions how his friend Martin Rutte told him that whenever he wants to bring in new business, he thoroughly cleans his office, home, car, and garage.  “Every time he does, he starts getting calls and letters from people who want to work with him.”

That got me thinking about the state of my home office.  If it’s the epicenter of my work and creativity in my home, it would serve me to get organized and allow the flow of energy a clear path.

Then, in a completely unrelated conversation with my awesome astrologer friend Tony Howard, he mentioned that it might be helpful for me to consider how, in Japanese culture, great care is taken in the placement and order of every item in their home.

All of this within the last few days.  Hmm… noticing a theme?

And then, in a conversation last night regarding Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, someone mentioned this line:  “Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment and to build your own life to order.”  He may have meant order as in made to order, but the first thing that came to mind was ORDER, i.e. the opposite of chaos.

This is how the universe teaches me… through the people in my life and the material I read.  It shows me the same lesson, time and time again, in a different presentation, until I get it.  My job is to listen, learn, and take action.

Done!